

Sunday, October 4 at 1:00 PM EDT
DAL
+2.5
+114
Total
47.5
HOU
-2.5
-135
Bet it or track it
Tap a price to send it to your DraftKings betslip. Tail it and it grades into My Record once the game is final — pushes settle as pushes, which matters when 3 decides one NFL game in seven.
How games at these numbers have gone
- The key number. 2.5 sits half a point short of 3, one of the margins games actually land on. That hook is most of what you are paying for or getting here.
- Spread 2.5 — the 0-3 point band. In 1,473 games since 1999 the favorite covered 49.8% of the time — a coin flip once the 95% range (47.3–52.4%) is taken into account.
- Total 47.5 — spread in the 0-3 point band. Games with a spread this size went over 48.9% of the time across 1,466 of them.
Last three seasons
DAL
14-21 ATS · 14-21 SU · 25-10 O/U
went over in 25 of 35
HOU
19-19-1 ATS · 24-15 SU · 15-23 O/U
went under in 23 of 38
Measured on 7,276 games with a closing line and a final score. Records cover three seasons and describe the team — they are not a signal, and every situational split we measured lands at a coin flip. Context, not a pick — see every band.
The Read
Houston Texans open a 2.5-point favorite over Dallas Cowboys — about 57% implied to win outright. The 47.5 total prices it near 25–23.
Dallas Cowboys went 7–9 in 2025 — #19 of 32 by point differential (-2.4/g).
Houston Texans went 12–5 in 2025 — #5 of 32 by point differential (+6.4/g).
2025 team profiles
Dallas Cowboys
Houston Texans
