Now that the NFL schedule has officially been unveiled in its entirety, it’s time to take a look at each team’s strength of schedule for the 2026 season—the right way.
There was a bit of debate last week on football X (formerly Twitter) about how the strength of schedule should actually be calculated. As graphics highlighting each team’s strength of schedule for the upcoming campaign began circulating on social media, it became clear that the traditional method—using opponents’s winning percentages from the prior season to determine the difficulty of a team’s upcoming slate—is both outdated and misleading.
