Minnesota Vikings 2024 Opponents

The 2024 NFL Schedule is “scheduled” to be revealed this week. It’d be nice to have that last little detail of a season that’s only four months away. We’ve known the “who” and the “where” of the schedule since the end of the last season. We just need the “when.”  People have plans to make. 

As a refresher, here are the “who” and the “where” of the Minnesota Vikings 2024 Schedule.

Home:

Chicago Bears

Detroit Lions

Green Bay Packers

Arizona Cardinals

San Francisco 49ers

Houston Texans

Indianapolis Colts

Atlanta Falcons

New York Jets

Away:

Chicago Bears

Detroit Lions

Green Bay Packers

Los Angeles Rams

Seattle Seahawks

Jacksonville Jaguars

Tennessee Titans

New York Giants

Of course, there’s the annual home-and-away games against their fellow NFC North divisional foes. This year, the NFL’s schedule rotation matches the NFC North with the NFC West and AFC South. That’s 14 of the 17 games. The final three games are determined by last year’s divisional finish. The Vikings were third in the NFC North in 2023. That matches them with the NFC South’s Atlanta Falcons, NFC East’s New York Giants, and AFC East’s New York Jets. Foolishly adding the idiotic 17th game really hacked-up the symmetry of the NFL schedule. An extra inter-conference game was jammed into each team’s schedule. Last year’s 3rd-place finish in the NFC North matches the Vikings with the similarly placed team in the AFC East, the Jets. 

Another idiotic aspect of a 17-game schedule is half the teams having the decided advantage of nine home games. This year, the Vikings get that advantage. However, the NFL robbed them of that advantage by shipping one of their home games to Tottenham Hotspur stadium in London. My guess is that the Texans will be their opponent. It’s just a guess. 

I plan to attend the Vikings-Rams game at SoFi. This week, I finally find out when that game will be. I’ll finally be able to make plans. Finally.