The Baltimore Ravens’ schedule for the 2026 season is set. While according to strength of schedule, the Ravens have the ninth-easiest schedule, there’s a challenging road ahead. Among the toughest opponents is undoubtedly the Buffalo Bills.
The Ravens will take on the Bills in Week 8. After blowing a lead in stunning fashion last year, it should be a game that’s circled in red in the Ravens facility. However, the stakes feel a bit lower this time around. Why? Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. EST...not on primetime.
Setting one of the biggest matchups of the entire NFL schedule for a game in the middle of the season at 1 p.m. feels wrong. And for Lamar Jackson and the Ravens, it’s an unfortunate message. They won’t get their chance to even the score with the Bills on primetime. Instead, they’ll have to settle for a shot at revenge on a random afternoon in November.
Baltimore Ravens hit with unfortunate reality for long-awaited revenge game
Maybe it’s the fact that Baltimore performed poorly in 2025. Maybe it’s the fact that both the Ravens and Bills will have new head coaches calling the shots this season. Whatever the schedule makers’ reasoning for this decision is, you really can’t justify it. It’s still Lamar Jackson against Josh Allen at the end of the day.
Sure, the two foes have played each other in three primetime games over the past two seasons. That can get boring for other fans. I get it. However, Jackson and company deserved an opportunity to even the score in the national spotlight. They suffered two straight gut-wrenching losses to the Bills; one in the Divisional Round of the 2024 season and the unbelievable fourth-quarter collapse last year.
And if you’re not going to put them in a primetime slot, at least put the game earlier or later in the year, where the stakes and anticipation are much higher. Jackson and Allen deserve that much in a game of this magnitude. I mean, the Detroit Lions vs. Carolina Panthers game in Week 4 got the Sunday Night Football slot. And you're putting Ravens vs. Bills at 1 p.m.? Really?
Simply put, this game should’ve had primetime written all over it. Almost every time Jackson and Allen take the field across from one another, fireworks are set to go off, and that’ll likely remain a constant in Week 8.
This year, though, we won’t get to see those fireworks to their fullest potential. They’ll be going off in the broad daylight. And for Jackson and the Ravens, this news probably feels incredibly anticlimactic as they look to right their wrongs from what went down in their last two clashes with Buffalo.
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