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Minnesota Vikings 2024 Opponents

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The Minnesota Vikings 2024 regular-season schedule has been determined by an NFL formula that will be in its fourth season since the league expanded to 17 games.

Assuming no changes are enacted, Minnesota and all NFC teams will be due to play nine home games and eight road games like 2022.

The schedule will again include home and away contests against division foes and use a formula that rotates to determine the other 11 matchups.

Minnesota knew all but three contests before the final week of the regular season and found out the final foes based on Week 18 results.

The Vikings finished 7-10 and in third place in the NFC North, so they will host the Falcons from the NFC South and the Jets from the AFC East and visit the Giants from the NFC East because those teams finished third in their divisions.

Vikings Home Opponents: Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers of the NFC North; Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers of the NFC West; Houston Texans and Indianapolis Colts of the AFC South; Atlanta Falcons of the NFC South and New York Jets in the AFC East

Note: On Jan. 11, the NFL announced the Vikings will play one of their nine home games in London as part of the 2024 International Series.

Vikings Road Opponents: Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers of the NFC North; Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks of the NFC West; Jacksonville Jaguars and Tennessee Titans of the AFC South; New York Giants of the NFC East

View home and away photos of the Vikings 2024 regular season opponents.

Here's a little more about each of the Vikings 2024 opponents.

DIVISION FOES

Chicago Bears

After the 2023 season, Minnesota is 66-58-2 record (includes 0-1 in postseason) in 126 games against Chicago.

The Vikings won the franchise's inaugural game by upsetting the Bears 37-13 thanks to four passing and one rushing touchdown by rookie Fran Tarkenton. Minnesota, however, didn't log another win in the series until December 1964.

The first shutout ever recorded by the Vikings occurred on Oct. 12, 1969, at Wrigley Field.

Minnesota started a win streak in December 2021 that included sweeps that season and in 2022 and extended the run to five games in October 2023, but Chicago ended the run in November with a 12-10 win at U.S. Bank Stadium.

Detroit Lions

After the 2023 season, the Vikings are 80-43-2 record against the Lions in 125 contests.

The series, which dates to Minnesota's inaugural season, includes five Thanksgiving Day games in which the Vikings have gone 3-2 when playing in Detroit.

The 1969 Thanksgiving game marked Minnesota's second shutout in franchise history and was the first of four recorded by the Vikings against the Lions. Minnesota has kept opponents completely off the scoreboard 15 times in franchise history.

From 1968 through September 1974, the Vikings won 13 consecutive games in the series, and only five of those games were decided by one score.

Green Bay Packers

Green Bay concluded the 2023 season with a 66-58-3 record (includes 1-1 in postseason) in 127 Border Battles.

The series began with the Packers winning six consecutive games to start series play from 1961-63 before the expansion Vikings broke through with a 24-23 win in 1964.

Minnesota won seven consecutive games against Green Bay from November 1975 until October 1978 before a 10-all tie in November 1978.

The Vikings defeated the Packers 24-10 on Oct. 29, but Kirk Cousins was lost for the rest of the 2023 season because of an Achilles injury suffered at Lambeau Field. Green Bay won 33-10 on New Year's Eve.

2024 VIKINGS HOME GAMES

Arizona Cardinals

The Vikings lead the series 18-12 all-time, including a 12-4 record when hosting the Cardinals (both include a 2-0 mark in playoff games).

Minnesota is 11-0 at home (including 1-0 in postseason) in the series since 1991 when the Cardinals franchise visited from Arizona for the first time.

This will be the 11th meeting between the teams since 2008 and sixth since 2015.

The Vikings rushed for 173 yards and three touchdowns against the Cardinals in 2022.

San Francisco 49ers

Minnesota is 24-25-1 all-time (includes 1-5 in postseason games) in the series with San Francisco that began in 1961.

The Vikings and 49ers met for the 50th time overall in October 2023, with Minnesota prevailing 22-17 on Monday Night Football. Jordan Addison caught two touchdowns, and Camryn Bynum snagged two interceptions.

The 2024 contest will mark the first time Minnesota has hosted San Francisco in consecutive seasons since 1990-92 when the 49ers made trips to the Metrodome in three consecutive seasons.

A 20-17 win by the Niners in 1992 is their most recent victory as a visitor in the series. The Vikings have won all seven games in Minnesota since then.

Houston Texans

The Texans are the least common opponent for the Vikings among current teams, with just five meetings that Minnesota has swept with victories in every leap year since 2004.

The Vikings have scored 31 points in each of the past two meetings and at least 23 points in every contest with the Texans.

Daunte Culpepper threw for 396 yards and five touchdowns (two each to Randy Moss and Marcus Robinson, and one to Nate Burleson).

Houston played in the third regular-season game in U.S. Bank Stadium history in October 2016. Marcus Sherels recorded his fifth and final career punt return touchdown (79 yards). It was the Minnesota native's first in a Vikings home game.

Indianapolis Colts

The Colts franchise leads the all-time series 18-8-1, including a 1-0 mark in the postseason. The team is 6-3 in the series since moving to Indianapolis after going 12-5-1 while based in Baltimore.

Minnesota recorded its first win in the series since Dec. 21, 1997, by executing the greatest comeback in NFL history, erasing a 33-0 halftime deficit on Dec. 17, 2022. The Vikings clinched the NFC North with the comeback win.

The Vikings scored more than 50 points for the first time on Sept. 28, 1969, when Joe Kapp tied an NFL record with seven touchdown passes. Minnesota scored more than 50 three times that season and has done so only three times since (none since 1998).

Since 2000, Minnesota has two wins in the series that began in 1961 and scored 39 points in each of the victories (39-28 in 1997 and 39-36 in 2022). Cris Carter caught three touchdowns in the 1997 game.

Atlanta Falcons

The Vikings have a 21-12 record all-time against the Falcons (includes 1-1 in postseason) and 12-5 when playing in the series as the host.

Minnesota has won five of the past six games, a run that began in 2014 and includes the 31-28 win at Atlanta on Nov. 5 in which Joshua Dobbs came off the bench after an injury to rookie Jaren Hall and sparked a comeback.

The Falcons have made two trips to U.S. Bank Stadium. The first was the 2019 season opener, and the second occurred in the 2020 season when fans were not in attendance.

New York Jets

The Vikings are 4-8 all-time against the Jets, and that's thanks to a current three-game win streak with victories in 2014, 2018 and 2022.

Jarius Wright delivered an 87-yard touchdown in overtime to end the 2014 game and halt a seven-game win streak by the Jets.

Minnesota is 3-3 when playing host in the series, with a win at Metropolitan Stadium in 1975, the victory in 2014 at the University of Minnesota and a 27-22 decision at U.S. Bank Stadium in December 2022.

2024 VIKINGS ROAD GAMES

Los Angeles Rams

The Vikings are 27-18-2 all-time against the Rams, including 5-2 in postseason games and 11-14 when on the road in the series.

Fran Tarkenton rushed for 99 yards, including a 52-yard touchdown, against the Rams in the teams' first contest (Nov. 5, 1961) at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which was the venue when Minnesota and L.A. met in 2018.

Assuming the game is held in Los Angeles, it will be Minnesota's first game against the Rams in SoFi Stadium but the Vikings second appearance at the venue (visited Chargers in 2021). SoFi Stadium will be the fifth different venue to host the teams in six meetings since 2014.

The Vikings and Rams have only played in Southern California once (2018) since a 31-17 win by Minnesota at Anaheim Stadium.

Seattle Seahawks

Seattle leads the series 13-6, including a victory in the only postseason game between the teams, thanks to a seven-game winning streak from 2012-2020.

Eleven of the matchups have been hosted by Seattle, with the Seahawks going 9-2 in those contests. Minnesota's lone wins in the Pacific Northwest occurred in 1990 and 2006. Herschel Walker tied the 1990 game at 21 in the fourth quarter with a 58-yard touchdown run.

Minnesota's final three touchdowns in its 31-13 win at Seattle in 2006 occurred on a 15-yard pass from Mewelde Moore to Jermaine Wiggins, a franchise-record, 95-yard rushing touchdown by Chester Taylor and a fumble recovery in the end zone by Kevin Williams.

The Vikings visited Seattle in three consecutive seasons from 2018-20 before hosting the Seahawks in 2021.

Jacksonville Jaguars

Minnesota is 6-1 all-time against Jacksonville and is on a five-game winning streak that began in 2004.

The Vikings are 2-0 when visiting the Jaguars, having collected wins in 2008 and 2016.

The series began in 1998 with a 50-10 win by the Vikings in which Randall Cunningham threw three touchdowns, Brad Johnson tossed another and Jimmy Hitchcock returned an interception 30 yards for a touchdown for his third pick-six of the season. It was the sixth time in franchise history the Vikings had scored 50 or more points in a game and remains the most recent.

Neither team has had a quarterback start more than one game in series history.

Tennessee Titans

Minnesota is 9-5 all-time against the Titans franchise (includes 4-3 against the Houston Oilers, 1-0 against the Tennessee Oilers and 4-2 against the Tennessee Titans).

The Vikings are 2-1 when visiting Tennessee with victories in 1998 and 2016 and a loss in 2008. The 1998 game provided Minnesota's franchise-record 15th win of the season, and the team set an NFL scoring record that has since been broken.

The series began in 1974 with the Vikings racking up a 51-10 win in which Fran Tarkenton threw three touchdowns and Bob Berry added two more. Chuck Foreman caught one score and rushed for another.

The last time the teams met was in 2020 without fans at U.S. Bank Stadium to see Justin Jefferson catch nine passes for 175 yards and his first two touchdowns in his first career start.

New York Giants

The Vikings are 18-13 all-time against the Giants, including a 1-3 mark in playoff games.

Minnesota defeated New York in the 2022 regular season but lost 31-24 to the Giants in the playoffs.

In 16 games as the visitor, Minnesota has gone 9-7 (1-2 in the playoffs).

Before the NFL created eight four-team divisions in 2002, the Vikings went from 1986 to 2001 without hosting a game between the teams, despite playing eight matchups (three were in the postseason) in that span.

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