New England Patriots 2026 Travel Schedule

New England Patriots travel miles 2026 by week

Home: Gillette Stadium, Foxborough. Miles are round trips from home. Body clock is the kickoff in Patriots home time.

Miles (round trip):

27,580

Short weeks (under 7 days rest):

3

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

1

Longest road trip (games):

2

Longest home gap (days):

28

Time zones crossed:

14

International games:

1

New England Patriots short weeks 2026

• Week 7, at Chicago Bears: 4 days after the previous game, 1,680 miles round trip.
• Week 14, vs Minnesota Vikings: 4 days after the previous game.
• Week 16, at New York Jets: 6 days after the previous game, 340 miles round trip.

How MockSlate counts travel miles

Every game is a round trip from Gillette 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 Patriots 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 Patriots home time. Back-to-back road games are flagged rather than modeled as one trip. All 32 teams ranked →

New England Patriots 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 Patriots’ 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.

Patriots’ season rest edge is +8, 8th in the league, through the scheduled weeks.

New England Patriots games off a bye 2026

• Week 12, at Los Angeles Chargers: 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.

New England Patriots hardest stretch of the 2026 schedule

The Patriots’ hardest three-game stretch is Weeks 10 to 13: @DET, @LAC, BUF, at an average model win chance of 47.7%, 23rd hardest three-game run in the league, with the bye inside it. 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, 22nd hardest by model rating; favored in 10 of 17.

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

New England Patriots primetime games 2026 and since 2002

The Patriots have 5 primetime games in 2026, tied for 7th most in the league, and have averaged 4.1 per season since 2002. That is the most since 2020, when they had 6. Their primetime record since 2002 is 64-34 (65.3%). 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 →