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New York Jets: 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 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 we 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. 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 13at Tennessee Titans
2Sep 20vs Green Bay Packers
3Sep 27at Detroit Lions-3
4Oct 4at Chicago Bears+1
5Oct 11vs Cleveland Browns-3
6Oct 18at New England PatriotsDIV
7Oct 25vs Miami Dolphins-7DIV
8Nov 1vs Las Vegas Raiders
9Nov 8at Kansas City Chiefs
10Nov 15vs Buffalo Bills+1DIV
11Nov 22at Los Angeles Chargers+1
12Nov 29at Miami DolphinsDIV
14Dec 13vs Denver Broncos+7
15Dec 20at Arizona Cardinals-7
16Dec 27vs New England Patriots+1DIV
17Jan 3vs Minnesota Vikings
18Jan 10at Buffalo BillsDIV

The 2025 ledger

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.

Franchise baseline, 1999–2025

Across the 27 seasons in our 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 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.