The New Orleans Saints and the Tennessee Titans, who were the Houston Oilers from 1960-96 have met 13 times. New Orleans has posted a 5-7-1 record against the Titans. Six of the outcomes in the series have been decided by a touchdown or less. The Saints won the last meeting a 23-17 win at Nashville’s LP Field on December 11, 2011, when the Saints clinched a playoff berth for the third consecutive season.
The Saints and the Titans first met in 1971 and played to a 13-13 tie in Houston’s Astrodome. The Oilers captured the next two games in the series, before the Saints won their first game in the series in 1981, the start of a threegame winning streak, including a 24-10 win in 1987 that would ensure the Saints a home playoff game in their seventh straight victory in the season where the club would both finish with a winning record and qualify for the postseason for the first time.