Minnesota Vikings 2026 Travel Schedule

Minnesota Vikings travel miles 2026 by week

Home: U.S. Bank Stadium, Minneapolis. Miles are round trips from home. Body clock is the kickoff in Vikings home time.

Miles (round trip):

14,080

Short weeks (under 7 days rest):

2

Early kickoffs (before 11 a.m. body clock):

0

Longest road trip (games):

2

Longest home gap (days):

21

Time zones crossed:

4

International games:

1

Minnesota Vikings short weeks 2026

• Week 10, at Green Bay Packers: 6 days after the previous game, 520 miles round trip.
• Week 14, at New England Patriots: 4 days after the previous game, 2,240 miles round trip.

How MockSlate counts travel miles

Every game is a round trip from U.S. Bank Stadium to the game venue, as the crow flies, rounded to ten miles. A home game counts zero; a neutral or international site counts from home even when the Vikings are the designated home team. Rest days are the days since the previous game, a short week is fewer than seven, and the body clock is the kickoff in Vikings home time. Back-to-back road games are flagged rather than modeled as one trip. All 32 teams ranked →

Minnesota Vikings rest advantage 2026 by week

Since 2002, home teams win 56% of games with even rest. With a rest edge of three days or more that rises to 58%. On the short side of three days or more it drops to 53%.

Edge is the Vikings’ rest days minus the opponent’s. Green is an edge, red a deficit, white even. Week 1 has no edge. Thursday games usually show 0: both teams are on a short week, so the edge cancels out.

Vikings’ season rest edge is +4, 11th in the league, through the scheduled weeks.

Minnesota Vikings games off a bye 2026

• Week 7, vs Indianapolis Colts: 14 days of rest against the opponent’s 7, an edge of +7.

NFL win rate by rest advantage since 2002

Every regular-season game from 2002 to 2025 after Week 1, bucketed by the home team’s rest edge over the visitor. The win rate is the home team’s, so the Even row is the plain home-field baseline to read the others against.

5,838 games bucketed: 6,223 in the file minus 383 Week 1 games and 2 later games where a team had no earlier game that season. Ties count as half a win.

Minnesota Vikings hardest stretch of the 2026 schedule

The Vikings’ hardest three-game stretch is Weeks 8 to 10: @DET, BUF, @GB, at an average model win chance of 40%, 15th hardest three-game run in the league. Difficulty is 100 minus each game’s win chance, so home field and rest are already counted.

Remaining schedule: opponents 0-0 before the first results, 19th hardest by model rating; favored in 8 of 17.

These are MockSlate model numbers, not sportsbook lines. All 32 teams ranked by hardest stretch →

Minnesota Vikings primetime games 2026 and since 2002

The Vikings have 4 primetime games in 2026, tied for 11th most in the league, and have averaged 3.1 per season since 2002. That is down from 5 in 2025. Their primetime record since 2002 is 29-46 (38.7%). Week 18 has no slots yet.

Windows: Thursday night, Sunday night, Monday night, and other night windows (the opener, holiday nights, Saturday night). Lines are MockSlate model numbers from the current ratings snapshot, not sportsbook lines. All 32 teams by primetime games →