Who will be the NFL's last unbeaten team in 2025? Narrowing the field from 32 to 1!
The 1972 Miami Dolphins know that at some point, every year, they’ll get to pop their champagne. The fall of the NFL’s last unbeaten team each season has become inevitable.
Sometimes it takes a while, like in 2007 when the New England Patriots' first loss came in Super Bowl XLVI. And sometimes the celebration starts early, like in 2010 and 2014 when every NFL team had at least one loss by Week 4.
But the party has been thrown for 52 straight years. The only mystery is when the last unbeaten will fall and who it will be.
On average, the longest undefeated season spans eight games in the Super Bowl era. No team has achieved that distinction more than the Rams — an astonishing nine times in 59 years. The Chiefs and Vikings have been the last unbeaten six times apiece and the Colts and Eagles five. All but six of the 32 franchises — the Jets, Jaguars, Browns, Texans, Seahawks and Ravens — have been the league's last unbeaten standing at least once.
With the recent release of the NFL schedule, we examined every slate to see which teams were best positioned to possibly go unbeaten and predict who will be the last unbeaten in 2025.
What a great week this is for crushing dreams and causing fan bases to wildly overreact. Best of all, after a summer of feel-good stories and reminders that everyone is still undefeated, it’ll only take a few hours for reality to slam half the league in the face.
Most of the opening games figure to be chalky. But anyone who has ever entered a "survivor pool" knows there will be at least one big shocker. The pick here is for the Cleveland Browns, the kings of false hope, to edge out one of the NFL’s most notorious slow starters, the Cincinnati Bengals (the Bengals will bounce back, of course,