Teams looking to snap losing streaks clash when the Houston Texans battle the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football. Houston is coming off a 26-23 loss to the Detroit Lions in Week 10, while Dallas dropped a 34-6 decision to the Philadelphia Eagles. Dallas leads the all-time series 4-2, including a 3-0 edge in home games. The Cowboys will be without starting quarterback Dak Prescott for the rest of the year with a torn right hamstring, while Houston put wide receiver Stefon Diggs on injured reserve this week with a knee injury.

Kickoff from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, is set for 8:15 p.m. ET. Houston is a 7.5-point favorite in the latest Texans vs. Cowboys odds, while the over/under for total points scored is 42. The Texans are the -365 money-line favorites (risk $365 to win $100), while the Cowboys are +286 underdogs (risk $100 to win $286).

Before making any Texans vs. Cowboys picks or NFL predictions of your own, you NEED to see which side SportsLine NFL expert Larry Hartstein is on. 

A former lead writer for Covers and The Linemakers, Hartstein combines a vast network of Vegas sources with an analytical approach he honed working for Pro Football Focus. He tied for 52nd place (out of 1,598 entries) in the 2022 Westgate Las Vegas SuperContest, going 53-34-3 ATS. Hartstein's weekly Vegas contest selections form the basis of his NFL best bets column, which is 79-48-2 (62.2%, +25.95 units) since its inception in 2022. He's also an INCREDIBLE 25-9 (+1490) on his last 34 NFL picks involving the Cowboys! Anyone who has followed him is way up.

Now, Hartstein has locked in another confident against-the-spread pick for Texans vs. Cowboys.

We can tell you he's leaning Under the point total, but he also knows a crucial X-factor makes one side of the spread a MUST-BACK! You ABSOLUTELY need to see what it is before locking in any picks of your own.

So who wins Texans vs. Cowboys on Monday Night Football, and what x-factor makes one side of the spread a MUST-BACK? ... Join SportsLine right now to see which side of the Texans vs. Cowboys spread hits HARD, all from the expert who is an AMAZING 25-9 on picks involving the Cowboys!