{"id":637935,"date":"2025-12-29T14:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/637935\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:40:09","slug":"when-do-colts-vs-texans-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/637935\/","title":{"rendered":"When do Colts vs. Texans play?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL has revealed the kickoff date and time in Week 18 for the Colts vs. Texans matchup.<\/p>\n<p>The kickoff date and time for the <a href=\"https:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indianapolis Colts&#8217;<\/a> regular-season finale in Week 18 has been set.<\/p>\n<p>Following the conclusion of Week 17, the NFL announced the dates and times for each Week 18 matchup.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/indianapolis-colts\/338\" data-autotag=\"d3fda36a-3eb5-4700-8763-caba831c06ae\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colts<\/a> will wrap up the 2025 regular season on the road against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/houston-texans\/325\" data-autotag=\"4fdb1a06-1d90-42ff-b7f7-5268ecaf7955\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston Texans<\/a>. Kickoff will be at 1:00 PM ET, and the game will be aired on CBS.<\/p>\n<p>The Colts will enter this game at 8-8 on the season, having lost seven games in a row. Along with missing the playoffs, the 2025 Colts are <a href=\"https:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/colts\/2025\/12\/27\/indianapolis-colts-miss-2025-playoffs-rare-fashion\/87930391007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of just a few teams<\/a> in NFL history to do so after starting the season 8-2.<\/p>\n<p>Now out of playoff contention, the Colts could look to make a change at quarterback for the season finale. When asked about who would start after the loss to Jacksonville, Shane Steichen was <a href=\"https:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/colts\/2025\/12\/28\/will-phillip-rivers-start-colts-week-18-texans\/87938865007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">non-committal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Colts are about to embark on another offseason that faces <a href=\"https:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/colts\/2025\/12\/28\/chris-ballard-resume-indianapolis-colts-general-manager\/87934367007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quite a bit of uncertainty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Texans are on an eight-game winning streak. When these two teams met in Indianapolis in Week 13, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/schedule\/_\/name\/hou\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a> won by a score of 20-16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL has revealed the kickoff date and time in Week 18 for the Colts vs. Texans matchup.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[247,265,861,874,2005,862,7,221,253,20842,2004,392,2381,248,267,246,88,6,35196,245,264,9,266,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-637935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-cbs","11":"tag-cbs-corp","12":"tag-colts","13":"tag-corp","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-houston","16":"tag-houston-texans","17":"tag-hub","18":"tag-indianapolis","19":"tag-indianapolis-colts","20":"tag-indianapoliscolts","21":"tag-national","22":"tag-national-sports","23":"tag-neutral","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-nfl","26":"tag-nfl-hub","27":"tag-overall","28":"tag-overall-neutral","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-sports-news","31":"tag-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115803378511935811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}