Chicago Bears Schedulegami: Every Opponent Never Faced in Primetime

Every opponent, every matchup window

All 31 opponents, most meetings first. Each count is the number of games in that window, 1966 through 2025, and opens the head-to-head page; “never” means the pairing is open there, and “2026 first” means this season’s schedule carries their first.

Venue notes: primetime windows where every Bears meeting with that opponent has been in one city. A game in the other city would be a venue first, not a schedulegami.

• All 2 Bears–Lions Sunday night games have been in Detroit, never in Chicago.
• All 2 Bears–Vikings Thursday night games have been in Minnesota, never in Chicago.
• All 4 Bears–Packers Thursday night games have been in Green Bay, never in Chicago.
• The only Bears–Buccaneers Monday night game was in Chicago, never in Tampa Bay.
• The only Bears–49ers Thursday night game was in San Francisco, never in Chicago.
• The only Bears–Saints Monday night game was in Chicago, never in New Orleans.
• All 2 Bears–Commanders Monday night games have been in Washington, never in Chicago.
• All 2 Bears–Cowboys Thursday night games have been in Chicago, never in Dallas.
• Both Cardinals–Bears Monday night games were Cardinals home games, in St. Louis and Arizona, never in Chicago.
• All 2 Bears–Giants Monday night games have been in Chicago, never in New York.
• The only Bears–Colts Sunday night game was in Indianapolis, never in Chicago.
• The only Bears–Seahawks Sunday night game was in Chicago, never in Seattle.
• All 2 Bears–Broncos Monday night games have been in Denver, never in Chicago.
• The only Bears–Steelers Monday night game was in Pittsburgh, never in Chicago.
• All 2 Bears–Browns Monday night games have been in Cleveland, never in Chicago.
• The only Bears–Patriots Monday night game was in New England, never in Chicago.
• The only Bears–Chiefs Monday night game was in Kansas City, never in Chicago.
• All 3 Bears–Chargers Monday night games have been in San Diego, never in Chicago.
• All 4 Bears–Dolphins Monday night games have been in Miami, never in Chicago.
• The only Bears–Titans Monday night game was in Houston, never in Chicago.
• The only Bears–Bengals Sunday night game was in Chicago, never in Cincinnati.
• The only Bears–Jets Sunday night game was in New York, never in Chicago.
• The only Panthers–Bears Thursday night game was in Chicago, never in Carolina.

Bears schedulegamis in 2026

• Venue first, not a schedulegami: First time the Bears visit the Seahawks on Monday night: Week 8, Nov 2, 2026, in Seattle. Their only earlier Monday night game was in Chicago.
• Venue first, not a schedulegami: First time the Bears visit the Bills on Saturday: Week 15, Dec 19, 2026, in Buffalo. Their only earlier Saturday game was in Chicago.
• Venue first, not a schedulegami: First time the Packers visit the Bears on Christmas: Week 16, Dec 25, 2026, in Chicago. Their 2 earlier Christmas games were in Green Bay.

2027 opponents and their open windows

The projected 2027 opponents from the Bears team page, with the windows each pairing has never played through the 2026 schedule. 3 opponents depend on Week 18 standings.

Bears schedulegami FAQ

How many opponents have the Bears never faced in primetime?

4 opponents have never met the Bears on Monday night, Sunday night, or Thursday night, 1966 through 2025: Las Vegas Raiders, Buffalo Bills, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Baltimore Ravens. By window, the Bears have never faced 9 opponents on Monday night, 12 on Sunday night, and 20 on Thursday night.

Which teams have the Bears never played on Monday night?

Atlanta Falcons, Indianapolis Colts, Las Vegas Raiders, Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, Carolina Panthers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Baltimore Ravens, and Houston Texans. That is 9 of 31 opponents, 1970 through 2025, counting every Monday game as Primetime & Holiday History counts it.

Which opponents have the Bears never met outside a Sunday afternoon?

Baltimore Ravens: this pairing has met only in Sunday afternoon windows since 1966. Nothing on the 2026 schedule changes that.

How many schedulegamis do the Bears have on the 2026 schedule?

2 games: Week 7 vs Patriots Thursday night (scheduled); Week 16 vs Packers Friday (scheduled). Also 3 venue firsts, which are not schedulegamis.

Related reading

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

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About the data

A schedulegami is a game placed in a broadcast window where those two teams have never met before. The pair is unordered. Venue does not matter: a pairing that has only ever met on Sunday night in one city has still met on Sunday night, so the same game in the other city is not a schedulegami. Sunday afternoon windows are never a schedulegami. Two levels are tracked: window-level, the first time a pairing meets in one window, and standalone-level, the first time a pairing meets outside a Sunday afternoon window.

Game history is the same file as Primetime & Holiday History, regular season only, with franchises carried forward under their current names. Coverage by window: Monday night: since 1970, every Monday game as Slot History counts it; Sunday night: since 1987; Thursday night: all Thursday games since 1966 as Slot History counts them; the first non-Thanksgiving Thursday game in the data is 1978; the weekly package began in 2006; Thanksgiving: since 1966; Christmas: since 1966; Saturday: since 1966; Kickoff Game: since 2002; International: since 2005; Friday: since 1966; Wednesday: all-time. A Sunday international game with a verified 8 PM ET or later kickoff counts as International and Sunday night; two games qualify, the 2005 49ers at Cardinals game in Mexico City and the 2026 Vikings at 49ers game in Mexico City. Schedulegami is a MockSlate term, first published September 2026.