Not much beats a meeting of division-leading rivals, with identical win-loss records, deep into the regular season, with the playoff seedings on a razor's edge.

But that's where we are as the Jacksonville Jaguars host the Indianapolis Colts in Week 14 at 12 p.m. (ET) on Sunday at Everbank Stadium. Both teams are 8-4, with Jacksonville holding the tiebreaker.

Holding the No. 3 spot in the AFC and tied with the Colts for first place in the AFC South, the Jaguars can take over the division lead with a win Sunday.

The last time the Jags stitched together four or more wins was 2023, when they won five straight mid-season and finished 9-8. That's the same regular-season record the team closed with in 2021, QB Trevor Lawrence's rookie year.

One win gives the Lawrence era three seasons in five above .500. With two more Ws, Jacksonville will tie its record from 2017, when Blake Bortles led the team to the AFC championship game against the New England Patriots. (The Jags fell 20-24 in a late comeback by the Pats, who then made their penultimate Super Bowl appearance, losing to the Philadelphia Eagles 41-33.)

For Jacksonville, with the exception of 2017, under then head coach Doug Marron, it's been a long, cold stretch from the winning seasons in 2007 (11-5) and 2005 (12-4), under Jack Del Rio. Tom Coughlin had previously led the Jags to winning seasons after their inaugural NFL season in 1995 – they went 9-7 in 1996, 11-5 in '97 and '98, and had their best finish ever at 14-2 in 1999, losing to the star-crossed Tennessee Titans in the AFC title game.

So, roughly every 10 years, the Jaguars get the itch and scratch their way to a stretch of winning seasons.

Will 2025, under rookie head coach Liam Cohn, kick off a third-time's-a-charm rise?

"Every year is a new year, every team's a new team," Cohn told reporters before practice Wednesday. "I think we understand that we're different. Everything's new and different, and every year is different."

The Jaguars' win streaks have been even better against Indy. They've won 10 straight home games against Colts – nine in Jacksonville and one, in 2016, at Wembley Stadium in London. The streak began in December 2015 and has continued through the Jaguars' 37-34 victory in October 2024.

Still, Jacksonville is a -1.5-point underdog versus the Colts this weekend.

The two teams meet for the final time this season on Sunday, Dec. 28. Ahead of that, Jacksonville hosts the New York Jets (3-9) on Dec. 7, then travels to AFC West-leading Denver (10-2) on Dec. 14. The Jags wrap up the regular season at home against the 1-11 Titans.