The 2023 NFL schedule won’t be released until May 11, but we already know all 14 opponents each team will play this fall on the road to Super Bowl 58.
The league’s scheduling mechanism runs on a predictable system. Every franchise gets six games against its division rivals, three against every other conference team that finished in the same spot in the division standings as they did (i.e. second place in the east faces second place in the north, south and west), three games against another in-conference division (not counting the aforementioned showdown with the similarly ranked team), four games against a cross-conference division and, with the advent of the 17-game schedule, one game against a previously unscheduled non-conference opponent decided by division ranking.
