Cincinnati Bengals 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 Bengals meeting with that opponent has been in one city. A game in the other city would be a venue first, not a schedulegami.

• The only Bengals–Titans Monday night game was in Houston, never in Cincinnati.
• All 2 Ravens–Bengals Sunday night games have been in Baltimore, never in Cincinnati.
• The only Bengals–Chargers Monday night game was in San Diego, never in Cincinnati.
• The only Bengals–Chiefs Sunday night game was in Kansas City, never in Cincinnati.
• The only Bills–Bengals Sunday night game was in Cincinnati, never in Buffalo.
• The only Bengals–Colts Monday night game was in Indianapolis, never in Cincinnati.
• The only Bengals–Patriots Monday night game was in Cincinnati, never in New England.
• The only Bengals–Jets Sunday night game was in New York, never in Cincinnati.
• The only Bengals–Jaguars Monday night game was in Jacksonville, never in Cincinnati.
• All 4 Bengals–Dolphins Monday night games have been in Miami, never in Cincinnati.
• The only Bengals–Seahawks Monday night game was in Seattle, never in Cincinnati.
• The only Bengals–Vikings Monday night game was in Minnesota, never in Cincinnati.
• The only Bengals–49ers Sunday night game was in San Francisco, never in Cincinnati.
• All 2 Falcons–Bengals Sunday night games have been in Atlanta, never in Cincinnati.
• The only Bengals–Cowboys Monday night game was in Dallas, never in Cincinnati.
• The only Bengals–Eagles Thursday night game was in Philadelphia, never in Cincinnati.
• The only Cardinals–Bengals Sunday night game was in Arizona, never in Cincinnati.
• The only Bears–Bengals Sunday night game was in Chicago, never in Cincinnati.
• The only Bengals–Texans Monday night game was in Cincinnati, never in Houston.
• The only Bengals–Giants Monday night game was in New York, never in Cincinnati.

Bengals schedulegamis in 2026

• Venue first, not a schedulegami: First time the Bengals visit the Commanders on Monday night: Week 11, Nov 23, 2026, in Washington. Their only earlier Monday night game was in Cincinnati.

2027 opponents and their open windows

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

Bengals schedulegami FAQ

How many opponents have the Bengals never faced in primetime?

5 opponents have never met the Bengals on Monday night, Sunday night, or Thursday night, 1966 through 2025: Green Bay Packers, New Orleans Saints, Detroit Lions, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Carolina Panthers. By window, the Bengals have never faced 12 opponents on Monday night, 16 on Sunday night, and 23 on Thursday night.

Which teams have the Bengals never played on Monday night?

Kansas City Chiefs, New York Jets, San Francisco 49ers, Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers, New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Carolina Panthers. That is 12 of 31 opponents, 1970 through 2025, counting every Monday game as Primetime & Holiday History counts it.

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

Green Bay Packers, New Orleans Saints, Detroit Lions, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Carolina Panthers: these pairings have met only in Sunday afternoon windows since 1966. Nothing on the 2026 schedule changes that.

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

1 game: Week 9 at Falcons International (scheduled). Also 1 venue first, which is not schedulegamis.

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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.