The Panthers caught a little break with their home and road opponents

The NFL schedule gets revealed tomorrow, but we already know the opponents the Carolina Panthers will be squaring off against next season, and we know where those games will be played (unless an international one gets thrown into the mix). While the Panthers look like they’re going to have a very difficult schedule, they did get a little bit of a respite from how the teams were split between home and road opponents.

The Panthers have hardly any soft games outside their NFC South rivals. Only three of their other 11 games are against teams projected to win fewer than nine games. But here’s the good part: all of those three games are on the road. Here’s the full breakdown:

Home

• Buccaneers
• Falcons
• Saints
• Bears
• Lions
• Bengals
• Ravens
• Seahawks
• Broncos

Away

• Buccaneers
• Falcons
• Saints
• Packers
• Vikings
• Browns
• Steelers
• Eagles

The three non-division teams with projected win totals under nine are the Vikings, Steelers, and Browns. If you want the schedule to be as gettable as possible, you’d prefer the weaker, more beatable opponents while getting homefield advantage in the tougher games. That part couldn’t have worked out better for Carolina. They got three winnable road games outside of the division.