Houston Texans 2026 Travel Schedule

Houston Texans travel miles 2026 by week

Home: NRG Stadium, Houston. Miles are round trips from home. Body clock is the kickoff in Texans home time.

Miles (round trip):

27,380

Short weeks (under 7 days rest):

2

Early kickoffs (before 11 a.m. body clock):

1

Longest road trip (games):

2

Longest home gap (days):

25

Time zones crossed:

13

International games:

1

Houston Texans short weeks 2026

• Week 11, vs Indianapolis Colts: 4 days after the previous game.
• Week 16, at Philadelphia Eagles: 4 days after the previous game, 2,680 miles round trip.

How MockSlate counts travel miles

Every game is a round trip from NRG Stadium to the game venue, as the crow flies, rounded to ten miles. A home game counts zero; a neutral or international site counts from home even when the Texans are the designated home team. Rest days are the days since the previous game, a short week is fewer than seven, and the body clock is the kickoff in Texans home time. Back-to-back road games are flagged rather than modeled as one trip. All 32 teams ranked →

Houston Texans rest advantage 2026 by week

Since 2002, home teams win 56% of games with even rest. With a rest edge of three days or more that rises to 58%. On the short side of three days or more it drops to 53%.

Edge is the Texans’ rest days minus the opponent’s. Green is an edge, red a deficit, white even. Week 1 has no edge. Thursday games usually show 0: both teams are on a short week, so the edge cancels out.

Texans’ season rest edge is +9, 4th in the league, through the scheduled weeks.

Houston Texans games off a bye 2026

• Week 9, at Los Angeles Chargers: 14 days of rest against the opponent’s 7, an edge of +7.

NFL win rate by rest advantage since 2002

Every regular-season game from 2002 to 2025 after Week 1, bucketed by the home team’s rest edge over the visitor. The win rate is the home team’s, so the Even row is the plain home-field baseline to read the others against.

5,838 games bucketed: 6,223 in the file minus 383 Week 1 games and 2 later games where a team had no earlier game that season. Ties count as half a win.

Houston Texans hardest stretch of the 2026 schedule

The Texans’ hardest three-game stretch is Weeks 15 to 17: JAX, @PHI, @GB, at an average model win chance of 49.7%, 27th hardest three-game run in the league. Difficulty is 100 minus each game’s win chance, so home field and rest are already counted.

Remaining schedule: opponents 0-0 before the first results, 16th hardest by model rating; favored in 14 of 17.

These are MockSlate model numbers, not sportsbook lines. All 32 teams ranked by hardest stretch →

Houston Texans primetime games 2026 and since 2002

The Texans have 4 primetime games in 2026, tied for 11th most in the league, and have averaged 2.1 per season since 2002. That matches the 2025 count. Their primetime record since 2002 is 20-30 (40.0%). Week 18 has no slots yet.

Windows: Thursday night, Sunday night, Monday night, and other night windows (the opener, holiday nights, Saturday night). Lines are MockSlate model numbers from the current ratings snapshot, not sportsbook lines. All 32 teams by primetime games →