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 York Jets enter 2026 off a 3–14 season. Their 2026 opponents went a combined 149–139–1 in 2025 (a .517 strength of schedule, 12 of 32 — the naive prior-year method, whose real forecast error is measured here). The calendar hands them a net rest differential of -9 days (29 of 32), with week 3 (-3), week 5 (-3), week 7 (-7), week 14 (+7), week 15 (-7); the bye falls in week 13, they play 0 Thursday games, and 2 of their final four games are divisional. The slate has 0 kickoffs 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 AFC East 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 Tennessee Titans | — | — | — |
| 2 | Sep 20 | vs Green Bay Packers | — | — | — |
| 3 | Sep 27 | at Detroit Lions | -3 | — | — |
| 4 | Oct 4 | at Chicago Bears | +1 | — | — |
| 5 | Oct 11 | vs Cleveland Browns | -3 | — | — |
| 6 | Oct 18 | at New England Patriots | — | DIV | — |
| 7 | Oct 25 | vs Miami Dolphins | -7 | DIV | — |
| 8 | Nov 1 | vs Las Vegas Raiders | — | — | — |
| 9 | Nov 8 | at Kansas City Chiefs | — | — | — |
| 10 | Nov 15 | vs Buffalo Bills | +1 | DIV | — |
| 11 | Nov 22 | at Los Angeles Chargers | +1 | — | — |
| 12 | Nov 29 | at Miami Dolphins | — | DIV | — |
| 14 | Dec 13 | vs Denver Broncos | +7 | — | — |
| 15 | Dec 20 | at Arizona Cardinals | -7 | — | — |
| 16 | Dec 27 | vs New England Patriots | +1 | DIV | — |
| 17 | Jan 3 | vs Minnesota Vikings | — | — | — |
| 18 | Jan 10 | at Buffalo Bills | — | DIV | — |
Final record 3–14, 300 points scored against 503 allowed (-203). Home 2–7, road 1–7. 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 184–253 (.421). Best season in the window: 2010 (11–5); leanest: 2020 (2–14). Franchise moves are joined under the current code (NYJ), 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.