The Houston Texans begin their 25th season of play this year. It took them 10 seasons to make the playoffs for the 1st time ever, where they also won their 1st ever playoff game. Since then, the Texans have made the playoffs 8 more times, including the last 3 seasons in a row, a franchise record. Having never gotten past the 2nd round, the Texans will try to accomplish that feat by making it to the NFL postseason for a 4th consecutive season this year.
How they go about that will come down to their 2026 schedule, which has just been released.
Highlights of the schedule have the Texans opening the season with 2 in a row at home, and 3 of their first 4 at newly renamed Reliant Stadium. That 3rd home game in week 4 will be against the Dallas Cowboys. After that, however, 4 of the next 5 will be on the road, including their 2nd trip ever across the pond to play the Jaguars in London in week 6. The brutal part of that is 1) it will be the Jaguars 2nd game in as many weeks in London and they will be more acclimated to the time difference more than the Texans, who will likely show up on a Friday, play at 8:30 am Houston time on Sunday, then head back to American soil. 2) The Texans will not get a bye week following this London trip. They will have to play the Giants at home the following Sunday, then they get their bye in week 8.
The Texans have 4 prime time games scheduled this season. Flex scheduling can change that, but right now they are looking at 2 Thursday night games, one at home against the Colts in week 11, and one on Christmas Eve in Philly against the Eagles. They'll have a Sunday night game against Pittsburgh in the Steel City in week 13, and a Monday night game against the Packers at Lambeau in week 17 on January 4th.
The Texans close out the season with 4 of 6 on the road, and 3 of those will be night games played in northern cities in December and January. My friends at Texas Tropics tell me that a very strong El Niño is expected to be peaking late fall/early winter. This typically means the northern United States has a warmer and drier winter than usual, so hopefully weather won't be much of a factor for the Texans in these late season northern city games, especially at night.
The regular season concludes at home against the Titans in week 18. That game will be played on either January 9th or 10th.
The preseason schedule has also been released. The Texans will have back-to-back Thursday games at home against the Chargers August 13 and Raiders August 20. Their only preseason road game will be August 28 at Carolina.
So here is the Texans 2026 schedule:
- Week 1 - Sun. Sep. 13 - BUFFALO BILLS - noon
- Week 2 - Sun. Sep. 20 - CINCINNATI BENGALS - noon
- Week 3 - Sun. Sep. 27 - @ Indianapolis Colts - noon
- Week 4 - Sun. Oct. 4 - DALLAS COWBOYS - noon
- Week 5 - Sun. Oct. 11 - @ Tennessee Titans - noon
- Week 6 - Sun. Oct. 18 - @ Jacksonville Jaguars (LONDON) - 8:30 am
- Week 7 - Sun. Oct. 25 - NEW YORK GIANTS - noon
- Week 8 - BYE WEEK
- Week 9 - Sun. Nov. 8 - @ Los Angeles Chargers - 3:05 pm
- Week 10 - Sun. Nov. 15 - @ Cleveland Browns - noon
- Week 11 - THU. Nov. 19 - INDIANAPOLIS COLTS - 7:15 pm
- Week 12 - Sun. Nov. 29 - BALTIMORE RAVENS - noon
- Week 13 - Sun. Dec. 6 - @ Pittsburgh Steelers - 7:20 pm
- Week 14 - Sun. Dec. 13 - @ Washington Commanders - noon
- Week 15 - Sun. Dec. 20 - JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS - noon
- Week 16 - THU. Dec. 24 - @ Philadelphia Eagles - 7:15 pm
- Week 17 - MON. Jan. 4 - @ Green Bay Packers - 7:15 pm
- Week 18 - Sat/Sun Jan. 9/10 - TENNESSEE TITANS - TBD
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