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 Pittsburgh Steelers enter 2026 off a 10–7 season. Their 2026 opponents went a combined 143–146 in 2025 (a .495 strength of schedule, 19 of 32 — the naive prior-year method, whose real forecast error we measured here). The calendar hands them a net rest differential of -6 days (27 of 32), with week 2 (-4), week 5 (+3), week 6 (-3), week 10 (+7), week 11 (-7), week 18 (-3); the bye falls in week 9, they play 1 Thursday game, and 2 of their final four games are divisional. Rest-edge context lives in the schedule-quirks explainer.
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 | vs Atlanta Falcons | — | — | — |
| 2 | Sep 20 | at New England Patriots | -4 | — | — |
| 3 | Sep 27 | vs Cincinnati Bengals | — | DIV | — |
| 4 | Oct 1 | at Cleveland Browns | — | DIV Thu | — |
| 5 | Oct 11 | vs Indianapolis Colts | +3 | — | — |
| 6 | Oct 18 | at Tampa Bay Buccaneers | -3 | — | — |
| 7 | Oct 25 | at New Orleans Saints | — | — | — |
| 8 | Nov 1 | vs Cleveland Browns | — | DIV | — |
| 10 | Nov 15 | at Cincinnati Bengals | +7 | DIV | — |
| 11 | Nov 22 | at Philadelphia Eagles | -7 | — | — |
| 12 | Nov 27 | vs Denver Broncos | — | Fri | — |
| 13 | Dec 6 | vs Houston Texans | +2 | — | — |
| 14 | Dec 14 | at Jacksonville Jaguars | — | Mon | — |
| 15 | Dec 20 | vs Baltimore Ravens | -1 | DIV | — |
| 16 | Dec 27 | vs Carolina Panthers | — | — | — |
| 17 | Jan 3 | at Tennessee Titans | — | — | — |
| 18 | Jan 10 | at Baltimore Ravens | -3 | DIV | — |
Final record 10–7, 397 points scored against 387 allowed (+10). Home 6–3, road 4–4. One-score games (decided by 8 or fewer): 7–3 — the split most likely to regress either way, per the Pythagorean explainer.
Across the 27 seasons in our game log the franchise is 271–163–3 (.624). Best season in the window: 2004 (15–1); leanest: 1999 (6–10). Franchise moves are joined under the current code (PIT), 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.