1976 Houston Oilers season
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1976 Houston Oilers season
| 1976 Houston Oilers season | |||||||
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| Head coach | Bum Phillips | ||||||
| Home field | Astrodome | ||||||
| Results | |||||||
| Record | 5–9 | ||||||
| Division Place | 4th AFC Central | ||||||
| Playoff finish | did not qualify | ||||||
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The 1976 Houston Oilers season was the 17th season overall and seventh with the league. The team failed to improve upon their previous season's output of 10–4, winning only five games,[1] They failed to qualify for the playoffs for the seventh consecutive season. Finishing one game ahead of the upstart Cleveland Browns to finsh third in what became the NFL's toughest division that year, they lost out on an opportunity to win the division title or secure a wild-card spot based upon a tie-breaker situation where both the Steelers and Bengals had better division and/or conference records.
Schedule
| Week | Date | Opponent | Result | Attendance |
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| 1 | September 12, 1976 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | W 20–0 |
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| 2 | September 19, 1976 | at Buffalo Bills | W 13–3 |
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| 3 | September 26, 1976 | Oakland Raiders | L 14-13 |
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| 4 | October 3, 1976 | at New Orleans Saints | W 31–26 |
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| 5 | October 10, 1976 | Denver Broncos | W 17–3 |
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| 6 | October 17, 1976 | at San Diego Chargers | L 30–27 |
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| 7 | October 24, 1976 | Cincinnati Bengals | L 27–7 |
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| 8 | November 1, 1976 | at Baltimore Colts | L 38–14 |
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| 9 | November 7, 1976 | Cleveland Browns | L 21–7 |
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| 10 | November 14, 1976 | at Cincinnati Bengals | L 31–27 |
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| 11 | November 21, 1976 | at Pittsburgh Steelers | L 32–16 |
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| 12 | November 28, 1976 | Atlanta Falcons | W 20–14 |
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| 13 | December 5, 1976 | at Cleveland Browns | L 13–10 |
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| 14 | December 11, 1976 | Pittsburgh Steelers | L 21–0 |
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Standings
| AFC Central | |||||||
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| W | L | T | PCT | PF | PA | STK | |
| Pittsburgh Steelers | 10 | 4 | 0 | .714 | 342 | 138 | W-9 |
| Cincinnati Bengals | 10 | 4 | 0 | .714 | 335 | 210 | W-1 |
| Cleveland Browns | 9 | 5 | 0 | .643 | 267 | 287 | L-1 |
| Houston Oilers | 5 | 9 | 0 | .357 | 222 | 273 | L-2 |
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