{"id":674072,"date":"2026-01-13T13:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/674072\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T13:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:36:18","slug":"patriots-vs-texans-opening-odds-for-nfl-divisional-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/674072\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots vs. Texans opening odds for NFL divisional playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Having won their first playoff game in seven years, the New England Patriots are going to try to make it two in a row with a ticket to the AFC Championship on the line. Standing in their way is arguably the hottest team in the NFL right now, a Houston Texans squad coming off its 10th straight victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Despite Houston being on a run, the Patriots are opening the week as slight favorites as a look at the numbers provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/navigation\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FanDuel Sportsbook<\/a> shows.<\/p>\n<p>Odds for Patriots vs. Texans in NFL divisional playoffs<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As opposed to last week\u2019s game against the Los Angeles Chargers, which ended up producing 16 total points against an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patspulpit.com\/new-england-patriots-odds\/118779\/nfl-playoffs-wild-card-chargers-betting-information-spread\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">over\/under of 45.5<\/a>, the oddsmakers are more cautious in the divisional round. With an over\/under set at 40.5, a similarly low-score contest is expected \u2014 unsurprisingly given that the Texans\u2019 defense is one of the best in football, and that the Patriots\u2019 own just held L.A. to three points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Patriots\u2019 game against the Texans will kick off at 3 p.m. ET on Sunday, Jan. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having won their first playoff game in seven years, the New England Patriots are going to try to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,91604,18192,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-674072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-england","10":"tag-new-england-patriots","11":"tag-new-england-patriots-playoffs","12":"tag-new-england-patriots-odds","13":"tag-newengland","14":"tag-newenglandpatriots","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115888062324632750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674072","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=674072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}