Next Year's Home Schedule

**COJOMAY** · 12-31-2005, 11:13 PM

Depending on who wins Sunday, the Vikings already know seven of their eight opponents at home in 2006. Still to be decided is who finishes second in the NFC South -- the Buccaneers or Panthers. That team will join the Bears, Packers, Lions, Rams, Cardinals, Patriots and Jets as the home portion of the Vikings 2006 schedule.

**Ltrey33** · 12-31-2005, 11:21 PM

That doesn't seem like a terrible schedule, but we obviously don't know what any of those teams look like for next year.

**ultravikingfan** · 12-31-2005, 11:31 PM

We play the AFC East this year. Every team rotates through the opposite confernce divsions each year:

4 Games

2003: AFC West
2004: AFC South
2005: AFC North
2006: AFC East

Then, we play the NFC West. We rotate these Divisions each year:

3 Games

2003: NFC West
2004: NFC East
2005: NFC South
2006: NFC West

Then we play the other 3 teams who finished 2nd (like us) in their Division:

3 Games

Up in the air for now.

6 Division games

That all equals 16 games my friends.