Colts Reacts Survey Results: Indy travels to Texans for Week 8

The Horseshoe faithful have spoken!

The Indianapolis Colts (4-3) travel to the Houston Texans (5-2), (i.e., ‘The House that Hilton Built”), for a pivotal divisional clash if the Horseshoe wants to reclaim the AFC South.

The Texans already beat the Colts in the regular season opener at home, so the Colts will want to avoid the season sweep to rival quarterback C.J. Stroud’s squad to realistically maintain any chance of winning the division by the end of the 2024 campaign.

The encouraging news for the Colts is that star running back Jonathan Taylor (ankle) has no injury designation, as he was a consecutive full participant in practice for two days. Meanwhile, Pro Bowl defensive tackle DeForest Buckner (ankle/rest) also appears to be on track to play on Sunday. It couldn’t come at a more opportune time for the Colts.

From that respect, 71% of Colts fans appear correct from earlier this week that Taylor would start on Sunday against the Texans:

The Texans have won 3 of the last 4 matchups against the Colts, so this could be an ideal opportunity for Indianapolis to flip the script and swing momentum atop the AFC South.

Still, only 39% of Colts fans believe that Indianapolis will upset the Texans on the road tomorrow—even though this is as healthy as the Horseshoe has looked in a long time:

With the Colts riding a 2-game winning streak, but also facing the toughest stretch of games in their season, 58% of the Horseshoe Faithful believe that the franchise is headed in the right direction—which is slightly up from the 52% confidence rate surveyed last week: