Usually when you think of great rivalries, a lot of them tend to occur within state lines. That’s never really been true for the Cowboys and Texans. Whether it’s due to being in completely different conferences or the fact that the Texans formed as a franchise during one of the bleakest periods of Cowboys football, it’s just never been a real rivalry.
That said, the Cowboys take on the Texans this week in a battle between the two Texas teams. If there’s any sort of rivalry here, it’s the one that exists between head coaches Mike McCarthy and Lovie Smith, something McCarthy alluded to in his press conference on Wednesday.