Here is your full schedule for the upcoming season
The 2025 NFL regular season schedule is now official. The Carolina Panthers are opening their season with an auspicious start against the Jacksonville Jaguars on the road. Bigger news, perhaps, is that the Panthers will be getting their closest thing to a prime time game since 2023. Let’s take a look at the full release:
2025 Panthers schedule
- Week 1: at Jacksonville Jaguars, Sunday, September 7th at 1:00 PM ET
- Week 2: at Arizona Cardinals, Sunday, September 14th at 1:05 PM ET
- Week 3: vs Atlanta Falcons, Sunday, September 21st at 1:00 PM ET
- Week 4: at New England Patriots, Sunday, September 28th at 1:00 PM ET
- Week 5: vs Miami Dolphins, Sunday, October 5th at 1:00 PM ET
- Week 6: vs Dallas Cowboys, Sunday, October 12th at 1:00 PM ET
- Week 7: at New York Jets, Sunday, October 19th at 1:00 PM ET
- Week 8: vs Buffalo Bills, Sunday, October 26th at 1:00 PM ET
- Week 9: at Green Bay Packers, Sunday, November 2nd at 12:00 PM ET
- Week 10: vs New Orleans Saints, Sunday, November 9th at 1:00 PM ET
- Week 11: at Atlanta Falcons, Sunday, November 16th at 1:00 PM ET
- Week 12: at San Francisco 49ers, Monday, November 24th at 5:15 PM ET
- Week 13: vs Los Angeles Rams, Sunday, November 30th at 1:00 PM ET
- Week 14: BYE WEEK
- Week 15: at New Orleans Saints, Sunday, December 14th at 3:25 PM ET
- Week 16: vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Sunday, December 21st at 1:00 PM ET
- Week 17: vs Seattle Seahawks, date and time TBA
- Week 18: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Sunday, January 4th 2026, time TBA
Instant analysis
We’ll get deeper into the weeds of the schedule over the coming days, but there are a few things that jump out at us right away. First and foremost, this will be the third season that the Panthers have opened their regular season against Jacksonville. The other two seasons were 2003 and 2015. This is likely little more than a funny historical quirk, but you better believe we are going to ride the superstition behind this situation into the ground.
The real challenges of this schedule are two-fold:
First, they start with three out of their first four games on the road. That’s going to be an interesting set of circumstances for a team that is young and trying to get their feet under them. Primarily, that’s a coaching challenge for second year head coach Dave Canales.
Second, five of their six divisional games are between Weeks 10 and 18. The Panthers are likely to be deep in the hunt for the NFC South crown through the end of the season. The NFC South is a historically weak and chaotic division. It doesn’t matter how good or bad the Panthers are this season. They will be legitimately and not just hilariously relevant to post season conversations far later than they have been used to since 2017.
Stay tuned for more analysis as we dig into the 2025 season in the coming days, weeks, and months.