Jaguars (12-4), winners of seven consecutive games, can clinch their first AFC South title since 2022 with a victory or tie against the Tennessee Titans (3-13)<\/a> in the 2025 regular-season finale at EverBank Stadium Sunday at 1 p.m. They also can clinch the title if the second-place Houston Texans (11-5) tie or lose against the Indianapolis Colts (8-8) in Houston at 1 p.m.<\/p>\nThis marks the third time in four seasons the Jaguars have entered Week 18 with a chance to clinch the South. It’s the third time in four seasons the opponent in that game has been the Titans.<\/p>\n
The Titans are a struggling team this season, but they have played better in recent weeks. They feature perhaps the NFL’s best interior defensive lineman \u2013 tackle Jeffery Simmons \u2014 and improving, talented rookie quarterback Cam Ward.<\/p>\n
The Jaguars beat the Titans, 25-3, in Nashville, in Week 13, but beating a division rival twice in a short period is never easy \u2013 as evidenced by the Jaguars’ 23-17 road victory over the Colts last Sunday three weeks after beating the Colts in one-sided fashion, 36-19, in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
The Titans-Jaguars rivalry is real. The Jaguars knocked the Titans from the postseason in the 2022 regular-season finale by clinching the AFC South with a 20-16 victory over the Titans in Jacksonville. The Titans were out of the playoffs by Week 18 the following season, but eliminated the Jaguars from that season’s postseason with a 28-20 victory over the Jaguars in Nashville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE \u2013 The opportunity is real, immediate and significant. The task now is to take advantage. The Jaguars…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[881,116,118,117,885,9670,880,6315,884,9669,52258],"class_list":["post-104107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-front-page-headline","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-john-oehser","tag-news-10-things","tag-news-front-page-headline","tag-news-game-week","tag-news-gameday","tag-sponsor-uf-health","tag-tennessee-titans-at-jacksonville-jaguars-2025-reg-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}