The NFL Schedule Release became a proper noun about a decade ago, and the league has decided to morph that transformation into a week-long hullabaloo with time and date info on specific games trickling out before the actual release show, in primetime, on Thursday.
When the schedule is actually released, it’s always a blast evaluating road trips, the biggest games, and the primetime matchups, etc.
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Which game on the Buffalo Bills schedule are you most looking forward in 2026? Or maybe it’s one of the two planned regular season weeks in early January 2027?
And now we know the new Highmark Stadium will debut in Week 2, on Thursday Night Football, against the Lions.
Here’s a full list of Buffalo’s 2026 home and away split:
Home: Jets, Patriots, Dolphins, Lions, Bears, Chiefs, Chargers, Ravens
Away: Jets, Patriots, Dolphins, Broncos, Raiders, Packers, Vikings, Texans, and Rams
Before you leave your response in the comments, here’s my pick:
Away at Los Angeles Rams
It’s not that the enormous Chiefs or Ravens clashes are boring. Of course they’re not. But we’ve all witnessed the Bills play those clubs *a lot* recently, particularly Kansas City.
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And I’m actively making this selection not out of “revenge” the Bills will want from last year’s divisional-round loss to the Broncos.
For nearly a full decade now — which in the NFL is essentially a lifetime — the Rams have been the gold standard of perennial excellence in the NFC (along with the Eagles). They’re tied with Philadelphia for the second-most playoff wins in the NFL (10) since 2017, when Sean McVay became the head coach.
And at this stage of the Josh Allen era, I’m mostly focused on litmus test games for Buffalo during the regular season. In Los Angeles against the reigning NFL MVP and arguably the league’s most talent-laden, complete roster will 100% be a tune-up for the playoffs.
Doesn’t matter to me if it’s a 4:25pm ET start or in primetime on Monday Night Football. I want to see how this version of the Bills stacks up with an NFC powerhouse featuring Matthew Stafford, Puka Nacua, Davante Adams, Jared Verse, Trent McDuffie, Kobie Turner and one of the most brilliant offensive minds in the game.
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The 2024 version of the Bills faced Stafford and Co., and the Rams won 44-42 in one of the widest road contests of Buffalo’s 2017-2025 era.
In that game, Stafford had a 132.6 passer rating, Los Angeles went 11-15 on third down, and scored points on six of nine drives. That was the game, too, that featured a seismic game-management blunder from Sean McDermott, when he called a timeout on a failed Allen tush push attempt at the Rams’ 1-yard line with close to a minute remaining, thereby all but officially eliminating Buffalo’s ability to stop the clock on Los Angeles’ ensuing possession in which it held a two-point lead.
Speaking of Allen, you remember — he became the first quarterback in NFL history to rush for three touchdowns and throw for three touchdowns in the same game in that battle with the Rams.
The Bills and Rams are two teams with supreme talent, that provided ample fireworks in their last meeting and will provide each other a massive test — I’m most excited for this game on Buffalo’s 2026 schedule.
