At first glance, the Kansas City Chiefs' 23-20 overtime win over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday would appear to be a godsend for the Houston Texans. A loss for the Colts, their 3rd of the 2025 season, means that both the Texans and the Jacksonville Jaguars -- who narrowly escaped in Week 12 with a 3-point win over the free-falling Arizona Cardinals -- inched just a little bit closer to the top of the AFC South standings and a guaranteed home game to open the postseason.
But if the primary goal of the Houston Texans, or the Jacksonville Jaguars for that matter, is to simply be one of the seven teams left standing in the AFC at the end of the regular season, then this result at Arrowhead Stadium may not have actually been the best case scenario for everyone else in the AFC South.