Bucs 2025 Opponents Set
January 6th, 2025
So the 2024 regular season closed yesterday. Man, time flies. Now opponents for the following season are set.
The Bucs, of course, play their division rivals home and away. So three home games and three road games with Atlanta, Carolina and New Orleans.
The Bucs next year, per Scott Smith of Buccaneers.com, play the entire NFC West: two on the road and two at home. So road games at Los Angeles and at Seattle are on tap. Arizona and San Francisco will come to Tampa.
The Bucs will also play the AFC East. Road games in Buffalo and Miami and home games against New England and the Jets are on their way.
Additionally, the Bucs have road games at Detroit and at Houston, and a home game against Philadelphia.
The Bucs will play nine road games in 2025 as NFC/AFC teams take turns with nine home games each year. On even-numbered years the NFC gets nine home games; in odd-numbered years the NFC has nine road games.
Bucs 2025 Opponents
Home games
Arizona Cardinals
Atlanta Falcons
Carolina Panthers
New England Patriots
New Orleans Saints
New York Jets
Philadelphia Eagles
San Francisco 49ers
Road games
Atlanta Falcons
Buffalo Bills
Carolina Panthers
Detroit Lions
Houston Texans
Los Angeles Rams
Miami Dolphins
New Orleans Saints
Seattle Seahawks
January 6th, 2025 at 5:40 am
Why the 49ers again. Im going I ing to puke.
January 6th, 2025 at 5:44 am
No cowboys this year.
January 6th, 2025 at 5:46 am
Thanks Joe for the information.
Have some mixed feelings on the road games. However, we do well on the road too.
January 6th, 2025 at 5:52 am
This will not do. Please have them do it over. Thank you
January 6th, 2025 at 6:57 am
This is one of the best schedules we could hope for because playing the AFC East and NFC West is almost as soft as it can be.
It’s the easiest AFC Division. Right about equal to the South.
Buffalo is a tad better than Houston
Miami is not better than Indianapolis. Edge either way.
Pats & Jets are not as far along in the rebuild as Jacksonville & Tennessee.
The NFC West is best since we can’t play the South.
If we swapped the AFC East out for the AFC South, the 17th game flips FROM Houston to Buffalo, Baltimore or Kansas City.
I think we’ve been given a superior, opportunistic schedule in 2025 when the alternatives are considered.
January 6th, 2025 at 7:14 am
We will destroy that schedule. Much easier than the schedule we just played. Give JL an off season to fix a few things and this will be a 13 win team next year! Honestly just need an edge rusher and an upgrade on the oline for one guy who struggled all year. That alone would move us into contention! A 8-10 sack guy off the edge would change everything! Imagine a world where we could get to the Qb without blitzing!
January 6th, 2025 at 7:20 am
Definitely going to that Buffalo game always wanted to go there hopefully it’s in December and snowing
January 6th, 2025 at 7:53 am
Yes going to Buffalo in the cold is something,,,, of course , I’m still hoping we play Buffalo this year,, say on a neutral site , maybe a stadium we scored a lot of points in this year!
January 6th, 2025 at 8:13 am
8-0 at home next year
January 6th, 2025 at 9:29 am
When is the last time the Bucs played a cupcake schedule? Like never. Hopefully, Buc Luck will back off after this year. Buffalo in the Blizzard Bowl–Bucs will have to outwit the refs and the elements to win that one.
January 6th, 2025 at 9:38 am
@Dan the Bucs fan
We need more pieces than that on defense. We need another starting cornerback on the outside.
We need an interior linebacker to line up next to David assuming even comes back. And we need much more depth in the back seven then we had this year where we had to sign guys from the practice squad and off the street.
I also think we need to draft another receiver because there is no guarantee that Chris Godwin comes back and we also have to look at the eventual successor to Mike Evans.
I would love to see us pick up a good cornerback in free agency draft a top receiver with our first or second pick with the other pick going to another edge rusher or corner and then use our third round pick on another inside linebacker.
January 6th, 2025 at 9:40 am
As for how easier harder schedule is the fact is when you are the division winner you will always get the harder schedule. If we would have finished third in the division we would not be facing the Houston Texans or the Detroit Lions or the Eagles next year.
However I think we got off a bit lucky because the Texans are the worst of the division winners. And additionally while we must face Detroit had we finished second in our division we would likely still have to finish playing against a team like Minnesota who still won 14 games this year. We would then likely have to also play against and ascending Washington team rather than the Eagles. So not a huge difference there.
January 6th, 2025 at 10:26 am
If Licht can find another 3 or 4 starters in the draft next year, the Bucs future looks bright, no matter who we play!
January 6th, 2025 at 10:27 am
This is a great schedule! No Ravens, No Chiefs.
Teams like the Bills, 49ers, Eagles, Lions, will be most likely be in the twilight of their championship window, meaning, vet and rookie contracts are expiring, and players have to get paid and/or traded. So, you never know how well reloading goes for them.
Hopefully we are able to keep Coen and Licht makes some serious moves to bolster our defense.
January 6th, 2025 at 10:52 am
Some of these comments are funny. Zero reason to think teams like Buffalo, Philly or Detroit will be down next year.
Homecoming game for Liam Coen if he ends up being HC of the Patriots too… anyone think Todd Bowles defense would be able to stop his offense? I don’t.
January 6th, 2025 at 11:41 am
That’s a pretty good schedule. After we load up the D in the offseason, hopefully we have a healthier season and no reason we aren’t back in the same spot we are now. 11-12 win team and a top 3 seed.
January 6th, 2025 at 11:45 am
Any word on “away’ away games(London, Munich, Mexico)?
If we have to go, I vote for Buffalo in Mexico, provided they’ve fixed the turf!
January 6th, 2025 at 1:04 pm
13-4 NDC South Champs 2035
January 6th, 2025 at 1:05 pm
I love that list. Some challenges, but also so average to below average teams. Another division title coming our way.
January 6th, 2025 at 1:54 pm
Road game in Los Angeles. Two years in a row I have a chance to see them in person! And I like the schedule, but there are no guarantees year to year. Look at the Lions now compared to just a couple years ago, or the Cowboys and Niners this year compared to last year. Lots can happen up or down one season to the next.
January 6th, 2025 at 2:09 pm
Guys, many of your comments are meaningless because you’re thinking of 2024 teams, and this is the 2025 schedule. Some of the teams that were good this year will be sh1t next year and vice versa. We have no idea whether this is an easy or a hard schedule.
The only thing worth talking about is what games we can go to. I, too, would love to go to that Buffalo game. Also wouldn’t mind traveling to Seattle or Miami.
January 6th, 2025 at 2:53 pm
Why 49ers cause there in nfc moron
January 6th, 2025 at 3:29 pm
i find this schedule to definitely be a little tougher than you guys are making it out to be…it’s not as cupcake as one might think…
dive deeper boys…
yes i’ve seen worse…but it’s no cake walk
January 6th, 2025 at 3:37 pm
i find the road schedule to be very tough with a first look…
home can be like a 6-2…
road’s looking like 4-5………..maybe 5-4…
10-7 or 11-6 as an early prognostication………..but waaay to early to real get a true future-cast flow
January 6th, 2025 at 4:15 pm
That road schedule is rough – first off it’s 9 games, and you got 3 playoff teams, and 3 more teams that missed the playoffs by one game. As of right now, that’s a tough row.
January 6th, 2025 at 5:33 pm
Love it! 12-6 is very doable….IF…..all of the walking wounded are back next year, especially on defense……and Coen is still to OC!
January 6th, 2025 at 6:27 pm
Also keep in mind that some of these teams may likely have there meal tickets hired away as head coaches hopefully just not ours
January 6th, 2025 at 8:08 pm
Which game is in London, Berlin, Mexico City, Tokyo or Beijing?
January 6th, 2025 at 8:55 pm
Probably won’t be announced until the owners meetings in March. If memory serves, Brady came back to the Bucs after retiring right around the start of the NCAA tournament which is often mid-March. Wasn’t too long after that it was announced the Bucs would play in Munich. The two actions were in no way a coincidence.
No Beijing. Yet.
January 7th, 2025 at 12:22 am
Geez I hope you guys are joking about being. What a hole that dump would be.
January 7th, 2025 at 4:37 am
I like it
January 7th, 2025 at 12:43 pm
12-5