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New York Giants: 2026 Schedule & Season Tracker

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.

By C. B. Zakarian · Updated July 29, 2026

The New York Giants enter 2026 off a 4–13 season. Their 2026 opponents went a combined 143–144–2 in 2025 (a .498 strength of schedule, 17 of 32 — the naive prior-year method, whose real forecast error we measured here). The calendar hands them a net rest differential of +3 days (13 of 32), with week 2 (-3), week 9 (+7), week 11 (+3), week 12 (-3); the bye falls in week 8, they play 1 Thursday game, and 2 of their final four games are divisional. Rest-edge context lives in the schedule-quirks explainer.

2026 schedule

Results fill in automatically as the bundled nflverse game log updates; until a game is played its result column shows a dash.

WkDateOpponentRest edgeNotesResult
1Sep 13vs Dallas CowboysDIV
2Sep 21at Los Angeles Rams-3Mon
3Sep 27vs Tennessee Titans-1
4Oct 4vs Arizona Cardinals
5Oct 11at Washington CommandersDIV
6Oct 18vs New Orleans Saints
7Oct 25at Houston Texans
9Nov 8at Philadelphia Eagles+7DIV
10Nov 12vs Washington CommandersDIV Thu
11Nov 22vs Jacksonville Jaguars+3
12Nov 29at Indianapolis Colts-3
13Dec 6vs San Francisco 49ers
14Dec 13at Seattle Seahawks+1
15Dec 20vs Cleveland Browns
16Dec 28at Detroit LionsMon
17Jan 3at Dallas Cowboys-1DIV
18Jan 10vs Philadelphia EaglesDIV

The 2025 ledger

Final record 4–13, 381 points scored against 439 allowed (-58). Home 3–5, road 1–8. One-score games (decided by 8 or fewer): 1–7 — the split most likely to regress either way, per the Pythagorean explainer.

Franchise baseline, 1999–2025

Across the 27 seasons in our game log the franchise is 197–239–1 (.452). Best season in the window: 2000 (12–4); leanest: 2024 (3–14). Franchise moves are joined under the current code (NYG), so older seasons include predecessor cities where applicable.

Sources: nflverse public game log bundled at data/games.csv (schedule, rest, and results; retrieved July 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.