JACKSONVILLE \u2014 Jaguars left tackle Walker Little perfectly summed up Jacksonville\u2019s 11-game home winning streak against Indianapolis.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s one of those weird, quirky stats that you see and you\u2019re like, \u2018That\u2019s crazy,\u2019\u201d Little said.<\/p>\n
It has been an annual storyline surrounding this AFC South matchup for years \u2014 and might very well still be in 2027.<\/p>\n
The Jaguars (4-2), fresh off a bye week, will try to extend the streak when they host the struggling Colts (2-5) on Sunday. Indianapolis last won at EverBank Stadium in 2014 and will try to end the skid after a trying week<\/a> in which the Colts traded team captain DeForest Buckner<\/a> and longtime guard Quenton Nelson<\/a> to start a rebuilding effort.<\/p>\n \u201cRegardless of circumstances, we have a job to do, and we\u2019re excited for that challenge,\u201d Colts coach Shane Steichen said.<\/p>\n Indianapolis has dropped three in a row and 12 of 14 dating to last season. The Colts\u2019 futility on the road against Jacksonville might be even more of a head-scratching slump.<\/p>\n The 11-game slide includes a trip to London in 2016. Even in some of the Jaguars\u2019 worst years \u2014 a one-win campaign in 2020 and a pair of three-win seasons \u2014 they managed to beat Indianapolis at home.<\/p>\n \u201cMeat and potatoes; keep the main thing the main thing and just play our brand of football,\u201d Jaguars defensive end Josh Hines-Allen said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s all we worry about. The streak is the streak; it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n The Jags are playing just their third game in Jacksonville this season. They played consecutive \u201chome games\u201d in London, beating Philadelphia and losing to Houston, but gained ground in the division during the bye week because Houston, Indianapolis and Tennessee each lost.<\/p>\n Jacksonville has won six consecutive regular-season games at EverBank Stadium, outscoring opponents 229-68 over that span.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s always nice to have a home-field advantage,\u201d Jags coach Liam Coen said. \u201cIt\u2019s not an easy place to come in and play, I don\u2019t think. We play well at home, for sure. That\u2019s something that you can lean into, but we haven\u2019t necessarily talked about any streak or anything like that.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the NFL \u2014 any given Sunday \u2014 and it can happen anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n It hasn\u2019t happened in Jacksonville for the Colts in a dozen years, and they are 10-point underdogs. It\u2019s the first time the Jaguars have been a double-digit favorite in the series since 2017.<\/p>\n \u201cYou just never know what can happen in this league,\u201d Colts cornerback Sauce Gardner said. \u201cYou can\u2019t be worried about all of the extra stuff. If you got a game that week, you prepare for the game each and every week no matter what\u2019s going on the outside because, like I said, you never know what can happen in this league.\u201d<\/p>\n Need to know<\/p>\n What: Indianapolis (2-5) at Jacksonville (4-2)<\/p>\n When: Sunday, 1 p.m.<\/p>\n TV: CBS<\/p>\n Latest odds: Jaguars by 10<\/p>\n Against the spread: Colts 4-3; Jaguars 3-3<\/p>\n Last week: Colts lost at Vikings 16-10; Jaguars had a bye<\/p>\n Last meeting: Jaguars beat Colts 23-17 on Dec. 28, 2025, in Indianapolis<\/p>\n Series record: Colts lead 28-22<\/p>\n Matchup to watch<\/p>\n Jonathan Taylor against the NFL\u2019s No. 1 run defense. Taylor has 587 yards rushing and eight touchdowns for the Colts this season. There was speculation he might get traded this week, but nothing materialized. Indy\u2019s offense runs through him and will be tested in Jacksonville, which leads the league in rushing defense, averaging 72.2 yards a game and 3.23 yards a carry.<\/p>\n Stats and stuff<\/p>\n \u2022 The Colts have lost three in a row since winning consecutive games against Houston and Washington.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Colts are 1-3 on the road this season, averaging 20 points a game.<\/p>\n \u2022 Taylor is the last player to top 100 yards rushing against Jacksonville, finishing with 177 on the ground in a 26-23 overtime victory to end the 2024 season.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Jaguars have won six consecutive regular-season games in Jacksonville, outscoring opponents by an average score of 38-11.<\/p>\n \u2022 Jacksonville went 9-1 after its bye week last year, Coen\u2019s first season.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Jaguars have posted five first-quarter shutouts this season and have allowed three or fewer points in the first half of four games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE \u2014 Jaguars left tackle Walker Little perfectly summed up Jacksonville\u2019s 11-game home winning streak against Indianapolis. \u201cIt\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,121,117,119,10728,76046,110],"class_list":["post-443460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-nfl","tag-professional-sports","tag-social-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443460","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=443460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}