Future Opponents

The National Football League realigned its divisional and conference structure in 2002 with the introduction of the Houston Texans as an expansion franchise, and with that adopted a scheduling format that determines the majority of each team’s opponents. The formula, for each team, includes home and away games against each division foe (6 games), one game against each team in another division within a team’s conference (4 games), one game against each team in a division from the other conference (4 games) and two games against conference opponents to be determined by a team’s division finish the previous year. For example, in 2011 when the Broncos are playing each team from the AFC East, their two additional AFC opponents would be the teams from the North and South who finished in the same place in their division.

2011