The first game on Sunday in the Divisional Round of the 2026 NFL playoffs will feature an AFC matchup between the No. 5 Houston Texans and the No. 2 New England Patriots.<\/p>\n
The Patriots lead the all-time regular season series between these teams, 9-4, but the Texans have won three of their four most-recent meetings. They last faced off back in 2024, when the Texans won in New England, 41-21.<\/p>\n
The winner of this game will face the Denver Broncos in the AFC Championship game \u2014 the Broncos will be without Bo Nix who fractured his ankle on the second-to-last play in overtime against the Bills.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s everything you need to know about the game:<\/p>\n
Houston Texans vs. New England Patriots<\/p>\n
Game time: 3:00 PM EST Houston Texans: +3.5 (+142) Open thread: Discuss Sunday\u2019s game in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first game on Sunday in the Divisional Round of the 2026 NFL playoffs will feature an AFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[25,7,6,242,109,86517,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-687097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","13":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-discussion","14":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115917906750916331","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687097","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=687097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Channel: ESPN | ABC
Online Streaming: FuboTV<\/a> | ESPN<\/a>
Location: Gillette Stadium | Foxborough, MA
Announcers: Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Lisa Salters \/ Laura Rutledge (field reporter)<\/p>\n
New England Patriots: -3.5 (-168)
Over\/under: 40.5 points<\/p>\n