---
title: "Houston Texans — Held Out"
description: "RICE ratings for the Houston Texans, season by season and week by week since 1999."
url: "https://heldout.org/teams/search/HOU"
---

# RICE Team Rankings

Every NFL team since 1999, rated week by week. [How it works](/methodology/rice)

## Houston Texans

AFC South [All teams](/teams/search)

### Houston Texans — RICE by season

### Offence and defence, points per game

zero is average

### Every Season

Season In Progress

| Season | RICE     | Exp. margin | O-RICE | D-RICE | Record |
| ------ | -------- | ----------- | ------ | ------ | ------ |
| 2026   | **79.9** | +2.4        | -0.1   | +2.4   | 0–2    |
| 2025   | **75.5** | -0.2        | -3.4   | +3.2   | 12–5   |
| 2024   | **70.4** | -3.1        | -4.0   | +0.8   | 10–7   |
| 2023   | **75.0** | -0.5        | -0.6   | +0.1   | 10–7   |
| 2022   | **60.5** | -9.0        | -8.0   | -1.0   | 3–13–1 |
| 2021   | **61.2** | -8.5        | -6.0   | -2.5   | 4–13   |
| 2020   | **68.0** | -4.6        | +0.7   | -5.3   | 4–12   |
| 2019   | **73.1** | -1.6        | -0.1   | -1.5   | 10–6   |
| 2018   | **80.0** | +2.4        | +1.3   | +1.1   | 11–5   |
| 2017   | **55.9** | -11.7       | -9.2   | -2.5   | 4–12   |
| 2016   | **66.0** | -5.7        | -6.8   | +1.1   | 9–7    |
| 2015   | **68.7** | -4.2        | -5.7   | +1.5   | 9–7    |
| 2014   | **69.8** | -3.5        | -4.9   | +1.4   | 9–7    |
| 2013   | **67.0** | -5.2        | -3.8   | -1.4   | 2–14   |
| 2012   | **81.4** | +3.3        | +1.6   | +1.7   | 12–4   |
| 2011   | **77.8** | +1.1        | -0.2   | +1.3   | 10–6   |
| 2010   | **76.9** | +0.7        | +4.2   | -3.5   | 6–10   |
| 2009   | **80.7** | +2.9        | +3.8   | -0.9   | 9–7    |
| 2008   | **75.3** | -0.3        | +1.8   | -2.1   | 8–8    |
| 2007   | **75.9** | 0.0         | +1.3   | -1.3   | 8–8    |
| 2006   | **66.2** | -5.6        | -2.6   | -3.0   | 6–10   |
| 2005   | **63.8** | -7.0        | -3.9   | -3.1   | 2–14   |
| 2004   | **70.5** | -3.1        | -3.0   | -0.1   | 7–9    |
| 2003   | **63.8** | -7.0        | -5.4   | -1.7   | 5–11   |
| 2002   | **60.1** | -9.2        | -9.5   | +0.3   | 4–12   |

## Data

- [teams/HOU.json](/data/teams/HOU.json)
- [teams/index.json](/data/teams/index.json)

Last Updated: Sep 26, 2026, 3:56 PM PDT © 2026, Aditya Kishore. All Rights Reserved. Club marks are the clubs’ own trademarks. Past marks courtesy of [SportsLogoHistory.com](https://sportslogohistory.com/nfl-primary-logo/) and data courtesy of [nflverse](https://nflverse.nflverse.com/).