{"id":269642,"date":"2026-05-13T16:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269642\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:40:15","slug":"houston-texans-to-play-jacksonville-jaguars-in-london-at-wembley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269642\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Texans to play Jacksonville Jaguars in London at Wembley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/https:\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/texans\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Houston Texans<\/a> play the Jacksonville Jaguars on the road this season, it won\u2019t be in Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Texans and Jaguars will instead play that game Oct. 18 at Wembley Stadium in London at 8:30 a.m. central time, the NFL announced Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first international game the Texans have played in since the 2019 season \u2014 coincidentally against the Jaguars at the same venue. That year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/texans\/article\/Houston-Texans-Jacksonville-Jaguars-London-recap-14805663.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">the Texans won 26-3<\/a> on Nov. 3 before a crowd of 84,771.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to return to London and the iconic Wembley Stadium this season,\u201d Texans CEO and chair Cal McNair said. \u201cWe look forward to competing against the Jaguars and contributing to the continued global growth of the NFL. As we celebrate 25 seasons of Houston Texans football, this marks another significant moment for our organization and for Texans fans in Houston and around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s game between the Texans and Jaguars is part of a larger effort by the NFL to expand its global footprint. The league will play nine international games this season \u2014 the most in a single year \u2014 \u00a0including its first game in Australia and another inaugural game in Paris.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for the Texans, they\u2019ve played just two international games in their first 24 seasons, with a 1-1 record. Their first international game came in 2016, when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/texans\/article\/Texans-drop-loco-affair-to-Raiders-in-Mexico-City-10629010.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">the Texans lost to the Raiders<\/a> in a Monday night game in Mexico City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At some point, they\u2019ll be chosen to host a game \u2014 likely somewhere in Mexico, where they have rights in that market \u2014 within the next decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has said he would like there to be 16 international games per season, with each team participating in one per year.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the NFL\u2019s schedule will be released Thursday. The Texans\u2019 home opponents are the Colts, Jaguars, Titans, Ravens, Bengals, Cowboys, Giants and Bills.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their road opponents, other than the Jaguars, include the Browns, Colts, Eagles, Titans, Commanders, Packers, Chargers and Steelers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Houston Texans play the Jacksonville Jaguars on the road this season, it won\u2019t be in Florida.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-269642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269642","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=269642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}