Indianapolis Colts Schedule 2026: Printable PDF, Times, TV Channels
The Indianapolis Colts schedule 2026 opens at home. Indianapolis hosts the Baltimore Ravens at Lucas Oil Stadium on Sunday, September 13 at 1:00 PM ET on CBS.
Two dates shape the year. The Colts cross the Atlantic in Week 4 to face the Washington Commanders in London, and the bye does not arrive until Week 13, one of the latest breaks in the league.
There is a quirk in the TV listings too. Only two Colts games sit in a national prime time window, and two more weeks have no date or network attached yet.
Every kickoff time and channel is below, plus a free printable schedule and a wall calendar, both sized for US Letter paper.
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Indianapolis Colts Schedule 2026 Quick Facts
| Season and home opener | Sun, Sept 13 vs Baltimore Ravens, 1:00 PM ET (CBS) |
| Season span | September 2026 through January 2027 |
| Stadium | Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN (about 67,000 seats, retractable roof) |
| Head coach | Shane Steichen (4th season) |
| Coordinators | Jim Bob Cooter (offense), Lou Anarumo (defense) |
| Quarterback | Daniel Jones |
| Division | AFC South |
| Home / road games | 8 / 9 |
| Bye week | Week 13, weekend of December 6 |
| Prime time games | 2, both on the road (Week 2 on NBC, Week 11 on Prime Video) |
| International game | Week 4 at Washington, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, Oct 4 |
| Networks | CBS 7, FOX 5, NBC 1, Prime Video 1, NFL Network 1, Weeks 16 and 18 TBD |
| Radio | 93.5 and 107.5 The Fan, 97.1 HANK FM |
| 2025 season | 8-9, third in the AFC South, missed the playoffs |
Indianapolis Colts Regular Season Schedule 2026
Home games are marked “vs” and road games “at.” Kickoff times are Eastern, which is also Indianapolis time, so the clock on this page is the clock in the city.
| Week | Date | Opponent | Time (ET) | TV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun, Sept 13 | vs Baltimore Ravens | 1:00 PM | CBS |
| 2 | Sun, Sept 20 | at Kansas City Chiefs | 8:20 PM | NBC |
| 3 | Sun, Sept 27 | vs Houston Texans | 1:00 PM | CBS |
| 4 | Sun, Oct 4 | at Washington Commanders (London) | 9:30 AM | NFL Network |
| 5 | Sun, Oct 11 | at Pittsburgh Steelers | 1:00 PM | CBS |
| 6 | Sun, Oct 18 | vs Tennessee Titans | 1:00 PM | FOX |
| 7 | Sun, Oct 25 | at Minnesota Vikings | 1:00 PM | CBS |
| 8 | Sun, Nov 1 | at Jacksonville Jaguars | 1:00 PM | CBS |
| 9 | Sun, Nov 8 | vs Dallas Cowboys | 1:00 PM | FOX |
| 10 | Sun, Nov 15 | vs Miami Dolphins | 1:00 PM | CBS |
| 11 | Thu, Nov 19 | at Houston Texans | 8:15 PM | Prime Video |
| 12 | Sun, Nov 29 | vs New York Giants | 1:00 PM | FOX |
| 13 | BYE WEEK | |||
| 14 | Sun, Dec 13 | at Philadelphia Eagles | 1:00 PM | FOX |
| 15 | Sun, Dec 20 | at Tennessee Titans | 1:00 PM | CBS |
| 16 | TBD | vs Cincinnati Bengals | TBD | TBD |
| 17 | Sun, Jan 3 | at Cleveland Browns | 1:00 PM | FOX |
| 18 | TBD | vs Jacksonville Jaguars | TBD | TBD |
Two rows carry no date, which is one more than most clubs have. Week 16 against Cincinnati falls on the Christmas weekend, and the league holds those kickoffs back until it settles the holiday slate. Week 18 against the Jacksonville Jaguars is fixed only after Week 17 ends, then placed on either Saturday, January 9 or Sunday, January 10, 2027.
Kickoff times can also move under flexible scheduling, so treat the 1:00 PM slots as provisional. Under the 2026 rules the league can lift a Colts game into Sunday night up to twice in Weeks 5 through 10 and in any week from 11 to 17, into Monday night in any week from 12 to 17, and into Thursday night up to twice in Weeks 13 through 17.
The draw is heavy on unfamiliar opponents. Indianapolis faces all four AFC North clubs and the entire NFC East, eight games in total, plus Kansas City, Miami and a seventeenth game at Minnesota. Only six of the 17 are division games, and the two that matter most sit far apart: Houston on a Thursday night in November and Tennessee three days before Christmas.
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Colts Preseason Schedule 2026
Indianapolis plays two of its three 2026 NFL preseason games at home. The opener is a Thursday night trip to New England, then Atlanta and Detroit visit Lucas Oil Stadium on back to back Saturday afternoons.
| Game | Date | Opponent | Time (ET) | TV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thu, Aug 13 | at New England Patriots | 7:30 PM | FOX59 |
| 2 | Sat, Aug 22 | vs Atlanta Falcons | 1:00 PM | CBS4 |
| 3 | Sat, Aug 29 | vs Detroit Lions | 1:00 PM | CBS4 |
All three games air locally rather than nationally. FOX59 carries the New England opener, CBS4 has both home games, and 93.5 and 107.5 The Fan plus 97.1 HANK FM handle the radio call.
Preseason is also the window to watch the backup quarterback race, since Daniel Jones is being managed carefully after Achilles surgery.
What Channel is the Colts Game On? TV Schedule
CBS and FOX carry most of the season between them. CBS holds 7 games, FOX has 5, and one game each goes to NBC, Prime Video and NFL Network. Two weeks are still open.
| Network | Games | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| CBS | 7 | 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 15 |
| FOX | 5 | 6, 9, 12, 14, 17 |
| NBC | 1 | 2 |
| Prime Video | 1 | 11 |
| NFL Network | 1 | 4 |
| TBD | 2 | 16, 18 |
Three things to know:
- Two prime time games, both on the road. Week 2 at Kansas City is Sunday Night Football on NBC at 8:20 PM ET, with a Spanish language call on Universo. Week 11 at Houston is Thursday Night Football on Prime Video at 8:15 PM ET. There is no Monday night date on the sheet.
- The earliest kickoff is the London game. Week 4 starts at 9:30 AM ET on NFL Network, the only NFL Network broadcast of the Colts season. Set an alarm rather than assuming it is a normal Sunday.
- Twelve of the 15 assigned games kick at 1:00 PM ET. If a Colts game has a date, is not in London and is not under the lights, it starts at one o’clock. Flexible scheduling can still lift one of those Sundays into a night window later in the year.
93.5 and 107.5 The Fan is the flagship radio home, with 97.1 HANK FM simulcasting across central Indiana. Out of market viewers can pick up Sunday afternoon games through NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube.
Because 12 of the 15 assigned games are CBS or FOX broadcasts, a digital antenna covers most of the local slate for free.
Colts Kickoff Times in Every Time Zone
Indianapolis sits in the Eastern zone, so the times in the schedule table are already local for Lucas Oil Stadium. This grid is for everyone watching from somewhere else.
| Eastern (Indianapolis) | Central | Mountain | Pacific |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 AM (London) | 8:30 AM | 7:30 AM | 6:30 AM |
| 1:00 PM | 12:00 PM | 11:00 AM | 10:00 AM |
| 8:15 PM | 7:15 PM | 6:15 PM | 5:15 PM |
| 8:20 PM | 7:20 PM | 6:20 PM | 5:20 PM |
Five of the nine road games leave the Eastern zone. Four are short hops into Central time, at Kansas City, Minnesota, Houston and Tennessee, where the clock reads an hour earlier than the times above. The fifth is the outlier: London kicks at 2:30 PM local, which is breakfast in Indianapolis and 6:30 AM on the West Coast.
Arizona is the exception. The state skips daylight saving time, so the Mountain column runs an hour late for anyone in Phoenix or Tucson through Week 7. Subtract three hours from Eastern instead of two until daylight saving ends on Sunday, November 1, 2026. From Week 8 on, the column reads correctly.
Free Printable Indianapolis Colts Schedule 2026 (PDF)
The whole season on one page: three preseason games and all 18 regular season weeks with dates, opponents, kickoff times and TV channels. The eight Lucas Oil Stadium dates are bold, so home weekends are easy to pick out at a glance, and every row has a blank box to write the result.
A facts strip across the top carries the 8 and 9 home and road split, the Week 13 bye, Lucas Oil Stadium and Shane Steichen. The notes box flags what makes this schedule unusual: the 9:30 AM London kickoff in Week 4, only two prime time games, and the two weeks still waiting on a date. Sized for US Letter paper at 8.5 by 11 inches. Free, with no sign up and no email required.
Want every team on one page? Get the full 2026 NFL schedule with all 32 teams, week by week.
Colts 2026 Wall Calendar Printable (PDF)
If a month grid suits you better, this version runs August 2026 through January 2027. Lucas Oil Stadium dates are filled in Colts blue, road dates are outlined in silver, preseason days are tagged PRE, and every square carries the opponent and the kickoff time.
October is the page worth pinning up. It opens with the London kickoff on the 4th, then runs Pittsburgh, Tennessee and Minnesota on three straight Sundays. The blank first weekend of December is the Week 13 bye. Also US Letter, also free.
Printing tip: choose “Actual size” or “100%” instead of “Fit to page” so the small type stays sharp.
Colts in London: Week 4 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Sunday, October 4 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, 9:30 AM ET on NFL Network, which is a 2:30 PM local kickoff. It is the fourth international game in franchise history, after London in 2016, Frankfurt in 2023 and Berlin in 2025.
One detail is easy to get wrong. Some schedule listings show this as a Colts home game because of how the fixture is displayed. It is not. Washington is the designated home team, which is why Indianapolis has eight home dates at Lucas Oil Stadium rather than nine. If you are budgeting for tickets, eight is the number that matters.
Last year’s trip abroad was the high point of the season. The Colts beat Atlanta 31-25 in overtime at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on November 9, 2025, with Jonathan Taylor running for 244 yards and three touchdowns, and went into the bye at 8-2. They then lost all seven remaining games. The London date lands much earlier this time, in Week 4 rather than Week 10, and the bye does not follow it, so the recovery week has to be found elsewhere.
When is the Colts Bye Week in 2026?
Week 13, the weekend of December 6. That is late. Indianapolis plays 12 games before the break and only 5 after it, one of the most back loaded byes in the league.
The five game run that follows decides the season: at Philadelphia, at Tennessee, home to Cincinnati, at Cleveland, then Jacksonville at home. Four of those are AFC opponents and two are division games, so the tiebreakers land in the final month.
Compare every club on our NFL bye weeks page.
Colts 2026 Coaching Staff and Key Players
Indianapolis kept its leadership intact, which was not a given after 2025. The Colts started 8-2, lost every game that followed, and finished 8-9, third in the AFC South and out of the playoffs for a fifth straight year. Owner and chief executive Carlie Irsay-Gordon retained both head coach Shane Steichen and general manager Chris Ballard.
Who is running the team:
- Shane Steichen enters his fourth season. He arrived in February 2023 from Philadelphia, where he had been offensive coordinator for a Super Bowl team, and has not yet taken the Colts to the postseason.
- Jim Bob Cooter returns as offensive coordinator and Lou Anarumo as defensive coordinator. Both sides of the ball keep their playbooks and their terminology, and continuity was the stated aim of the offseason.
- Daniel Jones is the starting quarterback. He tore an Achilles in Week 14 of 2025 and was cleared to be a full participant from the first day of training camp. Anthony Richardson Sr. and Riley Leonard are competing for the backup job, and no QB2 has been named.
- Jonathan Taylor is the engine of the offense and signed a contract extension on August 6, 2026. The receiving room looks different after Michael Pittman Jr. was traded to Pittsburgh in March, and Alec Pierce opened camp on the active physically unable to perform list after ankle surgery.
- One suspension hits the opener. Cornerback Cam Taylor-Britt was suspended one game on August 7 and misses Week 1 against Baltimore. He is eligible to return for the Sunday night trip to Kansas City. Defensive tackle DeForest Buckner was cleared in late July after neck surgery.
The franchise also had a Canton moment this summer. Adam Vinatieri was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame on August 8, 2026, presented by Carlie Irsay-Gordon. He retired as the NFL career scoring leader with 2,673 points and is only the third full time kicker inducted, after Jan Stenerud and Morten Andersen.
How to Get Indianapolis Colts Tickets
Home tickets run through the official Colts ticket page, with Ticketmaster handling single game sales and verified resale on StubHub, Vivid Seats and SeatGeek. Season ticket access goes through the Forever Blue waitlist rather than open sale, and memberships are currently sold out.
With only eight dates at Lucas Oil Stadium, the home calendar is tighter than most. Baltimore in Week 1, Dallas in Week 9 and the two division games against Houston and Tennessee usually move first. The London fixture is sold through the NFL international series, not the Colts home ticket system.
Four home dates carry something extra this year. Houston on September 27 is the debut of the new NFL x Nike Rivalries uniform. Tennessee on October 18 is when Adam Vinatieri joins the Colts Ring of Honor, ten weeks after his Hall of Fame enshrinement. Dallas on November 8 is the White Out game, and the undated Cincinnati game in Week 16 is Indiana Nights. There is no throwback game on the 2026 calendar.
Indianapolis Colts Schedule 2026 FAQ
When do the Colts play their first game in 2026?
Sunday, September 13, 2026 against the Baltimore Ravens at Lucas Oil Stadium, 1:00 PM ET on CBS. It is a home opener, and Indianapolis then goes on the road for Sunday Night Football at Kansas City on September 20.
Where can I get a free printable Indianapolis Colts schedule 2026?
Use the download buttons above. The printable is a one page US Letter PDF with all three preseason games and all 18 regular season weeks, including dates, kickoff times, TV channels and a blank box for each result. A wall calendar version covers August 2026 through January 2027. Both are free, with no sign up or email required.
What channel are Indianapolis Colts games on in 2026?
CBS carries 7 games and FOX carries 5. NBC has Week 2 at Kansas City, Prime Video has Week 11 at Houston, and NFL Network has the Week 4 London game. Weeks 16 and 18 are still TBD. All three preseason games are local broadcasts: FOX59 for the opener and CBS4 for both home games.
When is the Colts bye week in 2026?
Week 13, the weekend of December 6, 2026. It is one of the latest byes in the league. Indianapolis plays 12 games before the break and 5 after it, starting at Philadelphia on December 13.
Are the Colts playing in London in 2026?
Yes. Indianapolis faces the Washington Commanders at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday, October 4, 2026 at 9:30 AM ET on NFL Network, a 2:30 PM local kickoff. Washington is the designated home team, so it counts as a Colts road game. It is the fourth international game in franchise history, after London in 2016, Frankfurt in 2023 and Berlin in 2025.
How many prime time games do the Colts have in 2026?
Two, both on the road. Sunday Night Football at Kansas City on September 20 at 8:20 PM ET on NBC, and Thursday Night Football at Houston on November 19 at 8:15 PM ET on Prime Video. There is no Monday Night Football date, though flex scheduling can move a Colts game into Sunday night from Week 5, Monday night from Week 12 or Thursday night from Week 13.
Who is the Colts starting quarterback in 2026?
Daniel Jones. He tore an Achilles in Week 14 of the 2025 season and was cleared as a full participant from the first day of training camp. Anthony Richardson Sr. and Riley Leonard are competing for the backup role, and no QB2 has been named.
Have the Indianapolis Colts won a Super Bowl?
Yes, twice. Super Bowl V after the 1970 season, when the franchise was the Baltimore Colts, and Super Bowl XLI after the 2006 season, a 29-17 win over the Chicago Bears in Miami with Peyton Manning at quarterback. The franchise also won three NFL championships before the Super Bowl era, in 1958, 1959 and 1968.
The Indianapolis Colts schedule 2026 gives you eight home Sundays at Lucas Oil Stadium, one early morning kickoff in London, two night games and a bye that waits until December.
Save the printable or the wall calendar above, circle October 4, and check back once the league fills in Weeks 16 and 18. For every other club, see the full 2026 NFL schedule.
Last Updated: August 10, 2026
