Your 2025 Buccaneers Schedule
May 14th, 2025
UPDATED: Here it is!
Start making your tailgate plans, your holiday plans, your travel plans, your glued-to-the couch plans and your bye-week plans.
Joe loves schedule day. It should be a national holy day! Joe always loves memorizing the schedule within 12 hours.
Enjoy!
Week 1 Sun. Sept. 7 at Atlanta 1 p.m. (FOX)
Week 2 Mon. Sept. 15 at Houston 7: p.m. (ABC)
Week 3 Sun. Sept. 21 N.Y. JETS 1 p.m. (FOX)
Week 4 Sun. Sept. 28 PHILADELPHIA 1 p.m. (FOX)
Week 5 Sun. Oct. 5 at Seattle 4:05 p.m. (CBS)
Week 6 Sun. Oct. 12 SAN FRANCISCO 1 PM (CBS)
Week 7 Mon. Oct. 20 at Detroit 7 p.m. (ESPN/ABC)
Week 8 Sun. Oct. 26 at New Orleans 4:05 p.m. (FOX)
Week 9 BYE
Week 10 Sun. Nov. 9 NEW ENGLAND 1 p.m. (CBS)
Week 11 Sun. Nov. 16 at Buffalo 1 p.m. (CBS)
Week 12 Sun. Nov. 23 at L.A. Rams 8:20 p.m. (NBC)
Week 13 Sun. Nov. 30 ARIZONA 1 p.m. (FOX)
Week 14 Sun. Dec. 7 NEW ORLEANS 1 p.m. (CBS)
Week 15 Thurs. Dec. 11 ATLANTA 8:15 p.m. (Prime)
Week 16 Sun. Dec. 21 at Carolina 4:30 p.m. (FOX)
Week 17 Sun. Dec. 28 at Miami 1 p.m. (FOX)
Week 18 TBD Jan. 4 CAROLINA TBD TBD
PRESEASON DATES/TIMES NOT RELEASED
Week 1 — TENNESSEE
Week 2 — at Pittsburgh
Week 3 — BUFFALO
May 14th, 2025 at 8:08 pm
Thursday home game!
May 14th, 2025 at 8:09 pm
6-2 at the bye?
May 14th, 2025 at 8:09 pm
14-3
May 14th, 2025 at 8:09 pm
As a Donnie downer: Week 9 bye sucks wish it was week 12 .
But otherwise we don’t have to travel to Europe
And I’m up for a trip to Seattle – So GO Bucs!
May 14th, 2025 at 8:10 pm
13-5 is definitely possible
May 14th, 2025 at 8:10 pm
Sorry 12-5
May 14th, 2025 at 8:12 pm
Previous thread, the heavy lifting.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:14 pm
Week 1 Sun. Sept. 7 at Atlanta 1:00 PM FOX | L
Week 2 Mon. Sept. 15 at Houston 7:00 PM ABC | L
Week 3 Sun. Sept. 21 N.Y. JETS 1:00 PM FOX | W
Week 4 Sun. Sept. 28 PHILADELPHIA 1:00 PM FOX | W
Week 5 Sun. Oct. 5 at Seattle 4:05 PM CBS | L
Week 6 Sun. Oct. 12 SAN FRANCISCO 1:00 PM CBS | W
Week 7 Mon. Oct. 20 at Detroit 7:00 PM ESPN/ABC | L
Week 8 Sun. Oct. 26 at New Orleans 4:05 PM FOX | W
Week 9 BYE WEEK
Week 10 Sun. Nov. 9 NEW ENGLAND 1:00 PM CBS | W
Week 11 Sun. Nov. 16 at Buffalo 1:00 PM CBS | L
Week 12 Sun. Nov. 23 at L.A. Rams 8:20 PM NBC | L
Week 13 Sun. Nov. 30 ARIZONA 1:00 PM FOX | W
Week 14 Sun. Dec. 7 NEW ORLEANS 1:00 PM CBS | W
Week 15 Thurs. Dec. 11 ATLANTA 8:15 PM PV | W
Week 16 Sun. Dec. 21 at Carolina 4:30 PM FOX | L
Week 17 Sun. Dec. 28 at Miami 1:00 PM FOX | W
Week 18 TBD Jan. 4 CAROLINA TBD TBD | W
Where we go, 10-7. I’ll take it.
Although I might flip those W’s on Atlanta, to win on road and loss at home, as the Bucs never win vs Atlanta on Thursday nights.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:16 pm
Why in the world is the week 4 Eagles game at 1instead of 4:30? Other than some dumb conflict on Fox, say for a 4:30 Cowboys game or something in that time slot.
Ours should be 4:30.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:16 pm
Looks like a good amount of prime time games. Which is good and bad. Glad we are getting the coverage but Bucs don’t perform well in prime time.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:16 pm
12-5.
Mark it.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:18 pm
I like 12-5 or 11-6.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:19 pm
You gotta be kidding! Cause of Ravens/Chiefs at 4:30 on CBS! That’s why.
Whatever. That should be 1pm.
Bucs Eagles here week 4 should be 4:30 on Fox.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:19 pm
No overseas but road schedule with the Lions Saints and Bills then over to LA is tough.
Looks like the Pats game Nov.9 is my option to attend Ray Jay for the first time.
Any recommendations? I was looking at corner seats on Bucs side … 102 – 118/119… what side do I wanna be on folks? Help me have my best experience please! Much appreciated.
Also… conservatively I see 11-6.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:20 pm
4 and 4 at bye, 7and 2 post bye. 11~6 should get a home field play off game.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:20 pm
11-6 does seem very doable. And week 9 BYE is pretty darn fine. Could be much worse, can’t have too many weeks elapse with key vets on our team.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:23 pm
No ratb@tards for the preseason .. nice
May 14th, 2025 at 8:23 pm
We can rest vets late in season based on early season success record, can’t rest vets early.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:23 pm
Stop your whinning, 1pm games at home in September give the Bucs an advantage.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:27 pm
I have us 12-5, Division champs once again.
Over-under is currently 9.5 on most betting sites. Get your bets down now, that number is likely to get higher over the summer.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:29 pm
Not a bad schedule. Wiuld rather play our best teams early when we’re still healthy. LOL
I remember one year having a week 5 or 6 bye week. That was the worst. Week 9 is just past dead center. I’ll take it.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:31 pm
14-3
May 14th, 2025 at 8:36 pm
Iggles in our house week 4 at 1pm is just like last year…
Let these jackasses melt in the Florida heat again and Bucs will hand them another butt-whoopin’ !! Hurts sucks against Bowles D and we’ll be a better defense this year with our depth and pass rush…
May 14th, 2025 at 8:36 pm
The nice thing is we have a Prime Time game every month for the first time that I’ve ever seen.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:36 pm
No cold Northern games after Nov. 16th.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:37 pm
If our defense plays like last year (16th points against (the only defensive stat that matters)), we will win at least 10 games. If as I suspect our defense comes out healthy and gaining swagger then the sky is absolutely the limit. Of course injuries could change that but we’ve got way better depth than the last 2 years. Way better! If the offense can stay focused for 4 quarters and ride our strengths and the defense can force 6 or 8 more turnovers and we are the favorites in every single game this year in my opinion. Pull up a chair and enjoy this one. Not many come around like this one.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:40 pm
love the 1 pm home games, sweltering heat advantage
May 14th, 2025 at 8:42 pm
I like the schedule and how it is laid out. Not perfect but could be worse. Week 11 and 12 are the only spots you could gripe about..away at buffalo and then at rams.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:44 pm
Heck yeah, last year the Eagles melted in the heat.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:45 pm
Fry, Eagles, Fry
May 14th, 2025 at 8:45 pm
You folks saying we don’t play well in prime time. You’re the same ones saying at this time last year we can’t score on the first drive. We’re getting better fast and in the last few years I think we’ve done great in prime time. Chiefs and we had practice squad receivers? Overtime! Falcons- we showed how explosive we are to the country! Overtime! Get real! We’ve been showing some great football in prime time. The Commanders deserved to win! NEXT!
May 14th, 2025 at 8:51 pm
Three of our four prime time games are on the road. Not a fan of that.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:55 pm
The schedule layout really is pretty good – which is odd since it opens with two games on the road, and ends with two games on the road. The Bucs still get two 1pm home games in September, although I’d rather them be early September as there’s a huge difference in weather from week 1 to week 4. But still, the Bucs will certainly have home field advantage vs the Jets and Eagles from the heat. Also the Oct 12th game vs the 49ers, we still got a good shot of it being unbearably hot, which might give them 3 games with a big home field advantage.
Also, looking at the Bucs four prime time games… I got them going 0-4 in those as I flipped the Falcons win to week one, and the loss to TNF. The nation is going to once again think the Bucs suck when they choke on national TV.
May 14th, 2025 at 8:56 pm
I see 11-6 with a learning curve prior to the bye week.
May 14th, 2025 at 9:01 pm
Some other notes, not a fan of playing the Panthers in 2 of the last 3 weeks – hopefully they will have imploded, but I actually think they’re going to be really tough this year, at least for Tampa. I have the Bucs going 1-1 vs them, which I figured before the schedule, but if they can sweep Carolina, that would give them 11 wins for me, which would more firmly put them in the playoffs, I think.
This is such an odd schedule, because I really don’t think it’s bad, and the game by game comes out to what I thought it would, 10-7, but within the schedule there’s a bunch of stuff I don’t like. I think what it is, is games where the Bucs typically play like trash, they’re against teams the Bucs would likely lose against anyways. For example of the NFL screwed the Bucs over with a Thursday night game vs the Jets, I’d have the Bucs lose that game – but a 1p Sept game should be a W. Hopefully.
May 14th, 2025 at 9:11 pm
Oh wow, I just realized that both of the Bucs MNF games are the fake double headers. That’s the NFL still not thinking the Bucs are worth being in real prime-time and hedging. What a slap in the face.
May 14th, 2025 at 9:26 pm
the key is getting to week 13 with a decent record…say 7-4 is realistic. The last 6 games bucs
should go 5-1 maybe 4-2.
May 14th, 2025 at 9:28 pm
Or 6-5 thru 1st 11 games more realistic and take care of business last 6 games.
May 14th, 2025 at 9:31 pm
Play Buffalo in the preseason and regular season? Highly unusual and I don’t like it
May 14th, 2025 at 9:36 pm
12-5 Losing to Houston,Philly, Detroit, LA and Atlanta on Thursday night.
May 14th, 2025 at 9:42 pm
Reddick going to light Eagles up
May 14th, 2025 at 9:50 pm
10-7 floor.
12-5 ceiling.
11-6 is what I think for regular season.
13-7 after playoffs.
Offense averages 28 points a game but increases TOP.
Defense improves to at least force on average 1 more punt per game. Later in season the defense will even close out 2 games for us. We win a couple of games in the postseason gaining valuable confidence feeling good about 2026.
Go Bucs!
May 14th, 2025 at 10:09 pm
I think that there should be a minimum time period of about five weeks between two games against the same opponent.
Aesthetically, I think that it is important to keep the feel of division play alive through out the season.
And, from a competition standpoint, the outcomes may seem less streaky and feel more representative.
I didn’t like the idea of playing Falcons on October 3rd and then again on October 27 last year. And, I don’t like the idea of playing the Panthers on December 21st and January 4th this year.
May 14th, 2025 at 10:15 pm
Saskbucs: sitting over the tunnel where Bucs players come out is a cool spot
Enjoy!
May 14th, 2025 at 10:16 pm
Giants arent good and their schedule lays out bad. Are they going to win more than 2 games?
May 14th, 2025 at 10:19 pm
The Bucs open 4-0 they’ll be on top of the league
May 14th, 2025 at 10:22 pm
Basically every single tough game besides the Eagles is on the road… ok then NFL, F U too.
Week 9 bye is okay though.
I stand by my original predication: 10-7 floor, 12-5 ceiling, provided we don’t suffer a rash of major injuries.
May 14th, 2025 at 10:24 pm
I can see 11-6 but could be persuaded to 12-5 ,,, I think if the D plays bad 10-7,,, if the D plays really well 13-4 ,,, in any even it should be a fun year to be a Buc fan
May 14th, 2025 at 10:33 pm
Have a good feeling about that eagles game
May 14th, 2025 at 10:38 pm
Rod (respectfully) is high. There’s no way we aren’t ready for Week 1, with all the necessary tools yet-injured. The same feels likely at Houston. You think M1K3 and J-Mac won’t ball out near home?!
If you think they can beat Philly, then (barring injuries), there’s no way they aren’t 4-0 going to a suspect Seattle team.
I’ll take that start, and trust in the depth to augment where we faltered last year!!!
May 14th, 2025 at 10:38 pm
Last year’s team won 10 and with proper coaching and game management, should have won 13 including playoffs.
This year, better roster, weaker schedule…..yet only feeling 9 wins tops unless the defense actually executes what Mr Half/Half claims he has found. New OC should mean the defense will need to carry the load for the first quarter.
I’ve seen the defense under half/half take loads but never carry them.
May 14th, 2025 at 10:41 pm
12 wins is my bid. I haven’t read the comments yet, buy I see 12 wins. That tbjeff666 guy can drop dead.
May 14th, 2025 at 10:42 pm
Worst home fan tailgating schedule I’ve possibly ever seen. Everything at home is 1 pm games, except a mid week night game. I sell off my 1 pm tix as I volunteer at Church. Even when the team was miserable, we’d at least have 4 pm starts for the benefit of the west coast fans to get to see their team on TV in the afternoon. I’d think the Glazers would prefer to make the extra stadium concession revenue after the past playoff years. I will sell this year’s season tickets 😟😟
May 14th, 2025 at 10:46 pm
I believe 45& 5 with the NFC CHAMPIONSHIP, 1st round bye for the BUCS! Forget the boat parade, i believe an “ALL DOMAIN PARADE FOR 2025-2026 SUPERBOWL CHANPION, LFG TAMPA BAY BUCS!!!
May 14th, 2025 at 10:47 pm
What’s Vegas over under Joe’s???
May 14th, 2025 at 10:47 pm
Overall I like it. One thing caught me off guard. MNF starts at 7 now? I like that better. I guess it means there’s a double header every Monday night. I haven’t seen the rest of the schedule. Got all week. I see Thursday nights are still 8:30. I still see 12 wins.
May 14th, 2025 at 11:03 pm
Idc about the record, I’ll be in a creamsicle Evans jersey in Detroit reaching for a a td ball from the man himself. Keep an eye out for me Mike, I’m in the 13 jersey
May 14th, 2025 at 11:05 pm
Sask…anywhere on the West side of the stadium…if you’re on the East side, you might actually spontaneously combust!
May 14th, 2025 at 11:22 pm
Is FOX ever going to have an app to watch the games?
CBS has one, NBC has one.
May 14th, 2025 at 11:28 pm
Funderstruck Says:
Rod (respectfully) is high. There’s no way we aren’t ready for Week 1, with all the necessary tools yet-injured. The same feels likely at Houston. You think M1K3 and J-Mac won’t ball out near home?!
If you think they can beat Philly, then (barring injuries), there’s no way they aren’t 4-0 going to a suspect Seattle team.
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Yeah, I flipped on the Falcons game – I figure we’ll split and was opening on the road is tough – but the Bucs home game vs the Falcons is on TNF, and the Bucs always lose that game, so I flipped the W’s to the Bucs getting the opening day W, and probably getting blown out in the TNF. Also, I didn’t consider it as I was just viewing the schedule and like to do my picks based on first impression (it’s fun, to me, to look back each year on what I thought at the time) – but Atlanta will hopefully be starting all those rookies on defense, so that should help.
For Houston – no way the Bucs win that game. When did they last win a game in Houston? I can’t think of it. Also a prime-time game where the Bucs generally stink – that’s a hard L for me.
The Philly game is the reverse of Houston, for whatever reason Bowles, and the Bucs in general, have the Eagles number, and it’s a 1PM game in September, I’m giving the Bucs a W there, but it has no impact on anything else. It would be like if the Bucs played in Chicago, you can always just give the Bucs a L, since they always lose that game.
May 14th, 2025 at 11:32 pm
Fred McNeil Says:
May 14th, 2025 at 10:47 pm
Overall I like it. One thing caught me off guard. MNF starts at 7 now?
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No, it’s the NFL sticking it to the Bucs by making them part of a double header. It’s what they do when they don’t have any confidence in the game, but still have to hit quotas of putting teams in prime time. The Bucs, since they won the division, are supposed to get those prime time games, and this is the way of the NFL saying they’re not dissing Tampa, while doing exactly that. It should make the team mad. A quick look at the schedule and I only saw two weeks with MNF double headers, and the Bucs were part of both of them.
May 14th, 2025 at 11:42 pm
Falcons get their Bye week on week 5 wow they will be gassed at the final leg of the season and they have a germany game lol
May 15th, 2025 at 12:18 am
I really, really like this schedule!
Just the right mix of tough/not tough games. Lots of primetime games.
Bet of all, the first 2 games are away games, reducing chances of a cancellation due to storms.
It’s a bit early to predict but I don’t think 11 wins is impossible.
May 15th, 2025 at 4:38 am
Happy with the schedule and bye week.
Surprised with the 7:00 p.m. change. Thinking if the Bucs practice at those times before the games, including the 8:00 ones, they should do well in prime time. The Bills in November; we could see some lake effect snow. No throwing snowballs though. Overall, I am going with 11 or 12 wins. Go Bucs!
May 15th, 2025 at 6:13 am
such an interesting schedule this year…i’m just studying and absorbing it for now…
i’m seeing a few subtle keys to success within pockets of the schedule…
but early analysis has my floor at 10-7, my ceiling at 12-5…and still vibing an 11-6 season (barring major injuries)…
i do see a few things i’ll mention later as i haven’t even printed it out yet and brought it into the lab…
with the initial look, it’s similar to last year where we def need to tread water at at least a 4-4 record going into the bye…and if we can somehow go into the bye at 5-3 we are sitting pretty…
and then like the past couple of years, it looks like we can potentially get on a big roll down the stretch for like the final 6 games…
going 5 -3 before the bye,,,and then 7-2 after would be my ultimate ceiling of 12-5…
in order to do that we have to split the first 2 games…no 0-2 start…
we gotta go on the road and win at least 1 west coast game vs either seattle or the rams…tall order – but good teams pull out big wins…we must get one…
we gotta win the games we are supposed to…and grab one win vs philly, detroit or buffalo…
the trap games are san fran, new england after the bye, and miami at christmas…we’re most likely gonna not show up for one of those games…it happens once every year…last year it was the denver game…
i’m kind of thinking 5-3 before the bye…6-3 after the bye
in division: we sweep the saints, and split with both carolina and atlanta…
i think we def lose to carolina once…and just maybe – we sweep atlanta like they did to us last year with young peni$ at the helm…
(ya see what i did)
more later…i gotta digest over here…
looks like a double digit win season though 🙂
May 15th, 2025 at 6:21 am
when i go thru the schedule i keep coming up with 10-7…
while my mind is telling me 11-6…
i guess we’re gonna have to upset someone we are not supposed to beat……or somehow sweep atlanta
May 15th, 2025 at 6:22 am
we could very well lose back to back games in november
May 15th, 2025 at 6:43 am
At Buffalo and then at LA? That’s brutal.
May 15th, 2025 at 8:29 am
sask:
107 to 114 …west side of stadium…
on the east side of the stadium you potentially get beaten down by the sun all day
May 15th, 2025 at 8:30 am
the Hassan Reddick tour, how much of seeing the Bucs schedule led to his signing? Jets, Cards, and Eagles should result in 6 to 7 sacks
May 15th, 2025 at 9:38 am
12-5
May 15th, 2025 at 9:50 am
Way too early prediction: 5-3 at the bye, 11-6 on the season.
May 15th, 2025 at 11:39 am
I just want to know how in the blue hell they plan on doing parking for week 3. The Rays play at 12:30 at Steinbrenner and the Bucs at 1pm at Ray Jay.
Something tells me there’s an adjustment coming. Then again, the time that makes the most sense to move the game to is SNF, and the Jets are a dumpster fire… not the kind of team you want showcased.
Maybe they’re counting on the capacity at Steinbrenner being somewhat small paired with the dumpster fire that is the New York Jets playing across the street making it doable?
May 15th, 2025 at 1:08 pm
8-9 or 9-8 is my prediction. Bowles will always keep it close.
May 15th, 2025 at 2:41 pm
Appreciate the replies about stadium seating guys! Thank you, pumped to plan a trip. Go Bucs!
May 15th, 2025 at 10:11 pm
10 – 7
May 16th, 2025 at 8:09 am
The schedule never matters. At some point, they will lose four or five games in a row and squeak into the playoffs. Then they will draft at 19 next year and choose a punter, and people will still call Licht a genius.