The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are once again playing a first-place schedule in 2024, but thankfully, the division they’re in will be kind to them.
The Bucs won the NFC South in 2023, but they did it with a 9-8 record — as such, their first-place schedule in the NFC South is one of the easiest in the entire league per strength of schedule, and the rest of the teams in the division will face similar opponents. On the flip side, teams in a brutal division like the AFC North are set to have one of the hardest schedules in football next year, and that particularly applies to teams like the Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns.
Here’s a complete ranking of every team’s strength of schedule in 2024, including the Bucs: