The Patriots and Buccaneers will meet in a regular season game for the 11th time overall and for the first time since the 2021 season when Tampa Bay beat New England, 19-17, at Gillette Stadium on Oct. 3, 2021. The Patriots will travel to play at Tampa Bay for the first time since a 19-14 win in a Thursday Night Football game on Oct. 5, 2017.
The Patriots are 7-3 against the Buccaneers all-time in the regular-season. New England won the first three games in the series from 1976-88. Tampa Bay claimed the next two meetings before a Patriots' 28-0 shutout victory in 2005 got the Patriots back on the winning side, winning four straight games prior to the loss in 2021.
The Patriots beat the Buccaneers in 1988 and then went 17 years before their next win against the Buccaneers in 2005.
The 17-year victory gap is the second longest for the Patriots, trailing only a 33-year win drought against the Washington Commanders, which lasted from 1973-2006.
SERIES BREAKDOWN
Home Record: 3-2
Foxboro Stadium: 1-1
Gillette Stadium: 2-1
Away Record: 4-1
Tampa/Houlihan's Stadium: 2-1
Raymond James Stadium: 1-0
Played in London's Wembley Stadium: 1-0
Total Points in Regular Season Series: 218-126
Largest Margin of Victory: 28 pts (12/17/05 and 10/25/09)
Largest Margin of Defeat: 20 pts (11/16/97)
Longest Win Streak: 4 games (2005-17)