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4. Pair of primetime games<\/strong><\/p>\n The Chargers have three total primetime games on the 2026 schedule, two of which come at home.<\/p>\n The first is a Week 12 tilt against the Patriots on Sunday Night Football<\/em>. This, of course, is a rematch of last season’s Wild Card Round meeting in New England.<\/p>\n The Chargers will then host the 49ers on Sunday Night Football<\/em> in Week 15 in a battle between SoCal and NorCal.<\/p>\n There should be plenty of eyeballs on these two games as the Chargers square off against a pair of playoff teams from last season.<\/p>\n A postseason berth? Playoff seeding? The AFC West title?<\/p>\n Plenty could be on the line when the Chargers close out their 2026 home slate by hosting the Chiefs in Week 17.<\/p>\n Jim Harbaugh’s squad will be looking for their third straight trip to the playoffs while the Kansas City is aiming to rebound after a six-win season.<\/p>\n Games between these two teams are always close \u2014 especially at SoFi Stadium \u2014 and this one should be, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 4. Pair of primetime games The Chargers have three total primetime games on the 2026 schedule, two of which come at home. The first is a Week 12 tilt against the Patriots on Sunday Night Football. This, of course, is a rematch of last season’s Wild Card Round meeting in New England. The Chargers will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[4407,77,4471,2350],"class_list":{"0":"post-8022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upcoming-games","8":"tag-chargers","9":"tag-games","10":"tag-home","11":"tag-watch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}