The Tennessee Titans and the Houston Texans finished tied atop the AFC South standings last season. Because of a tie-breaker, Houston went to the NFL playoffs and the Titans stayed home.
On Sunday, Tennessee had an opportunity to move to 3-1 while dropping the Texans to 1-3 a quarter of the way into the 2017 campaign.
That didn't happen. Houston hammered the Titans 57-14.
Tennessee running back Derrick Henry knows what it feels like when a team takes a collective punch to the gut. He was a freshman at Alabama for the Kick Six game, when Auburn's Chris Davis returned a missed field-goal attempt 109 yards for a touchdown as time ran out in the 2013 Iron Bowl to lift the Tigers to a 34-28 victory over the previously unbeaten Crimson Tide.