For a couple decades, after the NFL grew to 32 teams and while they still played a 16 game schedule, teams across the two different conferences, AFC and NFC< would only face each other once every four years. That’s why, until last season, the Houston Texans had only played the Dallas Cowboys six times in the regular season.

However, with the addition of a 17th regular season game in 2021, we’ve had an additional NFC foe added to the dance card. I won’t bore you with the formula as to how they determine who that cross-conference opponent is each season, but it did yield another Cowboys game last season (a 34-10 Texans win on Monday Night Football), and on Monday night, it gives us a rematch of one of the best games of the 2023 season, a 39-37 Texans win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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