NFL Opponents 2027: Every Team's Confirmed Matchups, Division by Division

Updated: 2026-07-11

224 of the 272 games in the 2027 NFL season are already locked — every team's 14 rotation-based opponents are set the moment the division rotations are fixed, well before the schedule is released. Only the 48 standings-based games, three per team, wait on where teams finish in 2026. Below is how the rotation works, then a link to every team's full 2027 opponent list.

How many 2027 opponents are already confirmed?

Fourteen of each team's seventeen. Every team's schedule is built from three blocks, and two of them are pure rotation — no standings required:

Six division games — each of your three division rivals, home and away. These never change.
Four intra-conference games — all four teams of one other division in your conference, on a three-year rotation.
Four inter-conference games — all four teams of one division from the other conference, on a four-year rotation.

That's 14 opponents locked league-wide (224 games) before a single standing is decided. The last three are the standings-based games: two "same-place" finishers from your conference's other divisions, plus the cross-conference 17th game — all keyed to 2026's final standings, so they firm up in January 2027.

Which divisions play each other in 2027?

These are the 2027 rotation pairings — the same ones MockSlate's team pages build each opponent list from, so the article and the pages can't disagree:

Division	Plays all of (same conference)	Plays all of (other conference)
AFC East	AFC South	NFC East
AFC North	AFC West	NFC West
AFC South	AFC East	NFC South
AFC West	AFC North	NFC North
NFC East	NFC South	AFC East
NFC North	NFC West	AFC West
NFC South	NFC East	AFC South
NFC West	NFC North	AFC North

The 17th game pairs each AFC division with an NFC division against the same-place finisher (AFC East–NFC South, AFC North–NFC North, AFC South–NFC West, AFC West–NFC East for 2027, with the AFC hosting). Because it depends on final position, it's the last matchup to lock.

Every team's 2027 opponents

Each team page lists all 17 opponents — home and away, how each matchup is determined, and which three are still projected pending the standings. Pick a team:

FAQ

Are the 2027 NFL opponents already known?

Mostly. 224 of the 272 matchups — every team's 14 rotation-based opponents — are locked as soon as the division rotations are set, long before the schedule is released. Only the 48 standings-based games (three per team) wait on the prior season's final standings.

How many opponents does each NFL team have confirmed for 2027?

Fourteen of seventeen. Six division games (each rival home and away), four against one same-conference division, and four against one cross-conference division are all set by rotation. The remaining three — two same-place finishers and the 17th game — depend on where teams finish in 2026.

Which divisions play each other in 2027?

By the 2027 rotation: AFC East plays AFC South and NFC East; AFC North plays AFC West and NFC West; AFC South plays AFC East and NFC South; AFC West plays AFC North and NFC North. The NFC mirrors it — NFC East plays NFC South and AFC East, NFC North plays NFC West and AFC West, NFC South plays NFC East and AFC South, NFC West plays NFC North and AFC North.

This applies to all 32 teams — browse every team’s 2027 opponents →

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