The 49ers endured a disappointing 2024 NFL season, but it has set them up for potential success in 2025. San Francisco is playing a fourth-place schedule after finishing last in the NFC West. That set them up with matchups against the Bears, Browns and Giants.

In the early 1960s, when the NFL comprised 14 teams, crafting the league schedule wasn’t quite an art and certainly wasn’t yet a science. Dan Rooney, then an executive for the family-owned Pittsburgh Steelers, would lay out 14 dominoes, moving them around as he scribbled out a weekly lineup of potential matchups.

The NFL announced team-by-team opponents and select prime-time games for the 2025 preseason on Wednesday.

The Sporting News has you covered with a breakdown of teams with the most and fewest prime-time games in the 2025 NFL season.

Some starry-eyed fans may circle Super Bowl 60 on the calendar if they believe their favorite team is shaping itself into a contender. Not every one of the NFL's 32 clubs looks like legitimate Super Bowl contenders.