The complete 2026 slate with rest edges and schedule context, the 2025 ledger, and the franchise record since 1999 — every number computed from the bundled nflverse game log.
The New Orleans Saints enter 2026 off a 6–11 season. Their 2026 opponents went a combined 125–163–1 in 2025 (a .434 strength of schedule, 31 of 32 — the naive prior-year method, whose real forecast error is measured here). The calendar hands them a net rest differential of -7 days (28 of 32), with week 4 (-3), week 9 (+7), week 11 (-7), week 13 (-4); the bye falls in week 8, they play 0 Thursday games, and 3 of their final four games are divisional. The slate has 1 kickoff at 7 PM ET or later and a longest road stretch of 2 straight games. Rest-edge context lives in the schedule-quirks explainer; the division picture is in the NFC South preview.
Results fill in automatically as the bundled nflverse game log updates; until a game is played its result column shows a dash.
| Wk | Date | Opponent | Rest edge | Notes | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 13 | at Detroit Lions | — | — | L 30–31 |
| 2 | Sep 20 | at Baltimore Ravens | — | — | W 24–17 |
| 3 | Sep 27 | vs Las Vegas Raiders | — | — | L 27–35 |
| 4 | Oct 5 | vs Atlanta Falcons | -3 | DIV Mon | L 24–45 |
| 5 | Oct 11 | vs Minnesota Vikings | -1 | — | L 13–23 |
| 6 | Oct 18 | at New York Giants | — | — | W 34–27 |
| 7 | Oct 25 | vs Pittsburgh Steelers | — | Neutral (Stade de France) | L 10–16 |
| 9 | Nov 8 | vs Cleveland Browns | +7 | — | — |
| 10 | Nov 15 | vs Carolina Panthers | — | DIV | — |
| 11 | Nov 22 | at Chicago Bears | -7 | — | — |
| 12 | Nov 29 | at Cincinnati Bengals | +1 | — | — |
| 13 | Dec 6 | vs Green Bay Packers | -4 | — | — |
| 14 | Dec 13 | at Carolina Panthers | — | DIV | — |
| 15 | Dec 20 | at Tampa Bay Buccaneers | — | DIV | — |
| 16 | Dec 27 | vs Arizona Cardinals | — | — | — |
| 17 | Jan 3 | at Atlanta Falcons | — | DIV | — |
| 18 | Jan 10 | vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers | — | DIV | — |
Final record 6–11, 306 points scored against 383 allowed (-77). Home 3–5, road 3–6. One-score games (decided by 8 or fewer): 3–5 — the split most likely to regress either way, per the Pythagorean explainer.
Across the 27 seasons in the bundled game log the franchise is 234–203 (.535). Best season in the window: 2009 (13–3); leanest: 1999 (3–13). Franchise moves are joined under the current code (NO), so older seasons include predecessor cities where applicable.
Sources: nflverse public game log bundled at data/games.csv (schedule, rest, and results; retrieved August 2026 — in-season updates refresh this page's results column). No projections, no invented numbers: this page reports the schedule and the record, and links the analysis.