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Who could Super Bowl champion Seahawks face to kick off 2026 season?
SAN FRANCISCO — It took just two seasons for Mike Macdonald to take the Seattle Seahawks from playoff observer to Super Bowl champions.
The dominant defensive performance in a blowout win over the New England Patriots underscored the defensive guru's place among the top young minds in the NFL. Macdonald is the third-youngest head coach to win a Super Bowl (38 years, 227 days old). His 17 victories this season set a new record for the most wins in a season by a head coach under 40 years old (including playoffs).
With a young head coach and a roster built by general manager John Schneider to last, Seattle won't be a one-hit wonder. The Seahawks could just be hitting their stride under Macdonald. After a swift ascent to the mountain top, it's never too early to start thinking about that elusive repeat.
Ranking potential matchups for Seahawks in 2026 NFL season opener
The 2025 NFL season is in the books, and the Seattle Seahawks are Super Bowl champions. Seattle utterly dominated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX, smothering New England's offense all night in game that wasn't nearly as close as the 29-13 final score would indicate.
Now, the race begins in earnest for one of the other 31 teams to dethrone them. All throughout the offseason, teams will go about remaking their rosters with trades and free agency and draft picks in an attempt to be the last team standing at the end of next season.
We don't yet know how that next season will end, but we do know how it will start: with the Seahawks playing host for the annual season-opening game on "Thursday Night Football." And that's why we're here today: to determine which opponent would be the best one for the league to schedule in the first game of the year.
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Who Seahawks could host in Week 1 NFL kickoff game
Over the past two decades, it’s become tradition for the reigning Super Bowl champion to kick off the NFL season with a Thursday night home game in Week 1.
So, with the Seattle Seahawks back on top of the football world as the newly crowned Super Bowl champs, that means the league’s annual kickoff game will likely be in front of a raucous and celebratory crowd at Lumen Field.
The 2026 NFL schedule won’t be unveiled until this spring, but teams already know who their home and away opponents will be. And for the NFL – which likes to schedule blockbuster opening matchups – there are certainly no shortage of intriguing options for the league to choose from on the Seahawks’ slate.
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