DALLAS (6-6) At CINCINNATI (7-5)
Sunday, 1 p.m., FOX
OPENING LINE – Bengals by 3
RECORD VS. SPREAD – Dallas 4-8; Cincinnati 6-5-1
SERIES RECORD – Cowboys lead 6-4
AP PRO32 RANKING – Cowboys No. 16; Bengals No. 13
LAST MEETING – Cowboys beat Bengals 31-22, Oct. 5, 2008
LAST WEEK – Cowboys beat Eagles 38-33; Bengals beat Chargers 20-13
COWBOYS OFFENSE – OVERALL (8), RUSH (30), PASS (2)
COWBOYS DEFENSE – OVERALL (11), RUSH (17), PASS (10)
BENGALS OFFENSE – OVERALL (15), RUSH (13T), PASS (13)
BENGALS DEFENSE – OVERALL (8), RUSH (11), PASS (11)
STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES: Dallas has won three of last four, scoring 38, 23, 38 and 38 points. Cowboys trying to win back-to-back games for second time this season. … Bengals trying to win five games in row for second straight season. … Tony Romo has thrown 19 TD passes. He needs one more to become first Cowboy to throw for 20 TDs five times. … Romo completed all 10 of his passes for 169 yards and three TDs in second half of 38-33 win over Philadelphia last week. … Romo threw for three TDs – including a 57-yarder to Terrell Owens – in 31-22 win over Bengals in Dallas in 2008. … TE Jason Witten had third 100-yard receiving game of season against Eagles. His 17 career 100-yard games are club record for tight end. … WR Dez Bryant has career highs in catches (71) and yards receiving (978). … Cincinnati’s Andy Dalton ranks second in AFC in fourth-quarter passer rating at 100.1, trailing Denver’s Peyton Manning (107.9). … RB BenJarvus Green-Ellis has run for more than 100 yards in each of last three games, a career best and best by Bengals player since Corey Dillon in 1999. Last Bengal to run for 100 yards in four straight was Paul Robinson in 1968. … Green-Ellis needs 115 yards to reach 1,000 for second time in career. He also did it in 2010 with New England (1,008 yards). He has carried 226 times, three shy of career high. … Green-Ellis has runs of 48, 41 and 39 yards in last two games, three longest of career. … After averaging only 93.7 yards rushing in first nine games, Cincinnati has averaged 179.3 in last three games. … WR A.J. Green scored TD in each of first nine games, but has been kept out of end zone in last two. … Bengals lead NFL in sacks with 39, followed by Denver (38) and Houston (36). Cincinnati has never led league in sacks. Club record for season is 48. … DT Geno Atkins leads NFL interior linemen with 9 1/2 sacks. Chicago’s Henry Melton is second with 6.
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