The Houston Texans are traveling to Jacksonville this weekend to face the Jaguars in what is essentially an early season “must win” for our hometown team. The Texans are 0-2 to start the season, and one really awful way to sustain the misery would be losing a divisional game to the lowly Jags. The playoff probabilities are bad enough for 0-2 teams. 0-3 teams are almost banished from the playoffs.

Beyond watching their playoff probabilities dwindle to next to nothing with a loss Sunday, losing to the Jags would also end one of the most remarkable streaks in team sports — the Texans’ current 11 game road winning streak inside the division. The ledger of games that are part of this streak is as follows:

(Texans record at the time of the game in the first parentheses. Betting line and Texan

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