How many NFL teams have started 7 and 0?
Since the playoff expansion in 1990, 29 teams have started the season with seven straight wins. Every single one of those teams has made the playoffs.
The Eagles are now the 28th team in NFL history to start 8-0. They join a list that includes eight Super Bowl champions and seven Super Bowl runner-ups.
The Eagles last held that distinction in 2004 when they started 7-0.
The Seahawks made history by becoming the first 7–9 team ever to make the playoffs and then did it again by becoming the first to win a playoff game, racking up 31 first downs and 474 yards, including a 67-yard touchdown run by Marshawn Lynch late in the fourth quarter.
A handful of teams have put together valiant comeback efforts -- four have won two straight to force a Game 6 after falling behind three games to none, and two of these teams pushed the series to Game 7. But only one, the 2004 Boston Red Sox, has completed the comeback.
The lowest possible score is 0-0 and has been achieved 73 times, though the most recent scoreless tie came on Nov. 7, 1943. The most points any team has scored in an NFL game is 73.
The 2007 New England Patriots were the first NFL team to achieve a perfect 16-0 regular season record, and seemed destined to go down as the greatest team ever until their stunning defeat in Super Bowl XLII.
Numbers 0 and 00 are no longer used, though they were issued in the NFL before the number standardization in 1973. Quarterback Johnny Clement, running back Johnny Olszewski, and safety Obert Logan all wore a single-0 jersey in the NFL.
The most famous undefeated team in NFL history is the 1972 Miami Dolphins, who remain the only team ever to finish the regular season with a perfect record and win the Super Bowl. That Dolphins team was 14-0 in the regular season, won three playoff games and then defeated Washington, 14-7, in Super Bowl VII.
Longest Winning Streak: 23 Indianapolis Colts (2008-09)
The Colts would not have a slow start the next year, winning 14 straight games to open the 2009 season before head coach Jim Caldwell decided to pull his starters in Week 16 in the third quarter with a one-score lead to preserve them for the playoffs.
Has a team ever started 1 7 and made the playoffs?
The 2004 Carolina Panthers started 1-7 but would have made the playoffs at 8-8 if not for a three-point loss in their season finale. The 1970 Cincinnati Bengals turned a 1-6 start into an 8-6 finish and a playoff ticket.
Yes, many NFL games have ended 0-0. Per Pro Football Reference, 73 games in pro football history have ended in a 0-0 tie. However, the last time it happened was almost 80 years ago, meaning there have been no scoreless ties in the Super Bowl era.
20 NFL teams that started 9-0 since the 1972 Miami Dolphins.
1984 San Francisco 49ers
The '84 49ers were the first team in NFL history to go 15-1 after the league expanded its schedule to 16 games in 1978. Led by coach Bill Walsh and quarterback Joe Montana, the 49ers suffered their only loss of the regular season in Week 7 against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The 2011 Giants were 7-7! Only one other team, the 2010 Packers at 8-6, had even 6 losses after 14 games. The 2011 Giants were the only team to win the Super Bowl with 7 losses, so they are the Super Bowl champion with the worst record after 15 and 16 games, too.
The league's other still-active charter member, the Arizona Cardinals, have recorded the most regular season losses (790), through the end of the 2022 season. The Dallas Cowboys hold the highest regular season win–loss percentage (.574), with a 550–408–6 record through the end of the 2022 season.
2015 Kansas City Chiefs
then became the second 1-5 team to make the playoffs, mounting a 10-game run that extended to 11 after a shutout win over the Texans in the wild-card round.
36 points — Utah Jazz vs.
The lead had been increased by 2 points in the third quarter to make it a 36 point deficit. Led by the scoring efforts of Karl Malone with 31 points and Jeff Hornacek contributing 29 points, the Utah Jazz secured the win to overcome the largest deficit in NBA history.
The most recent team to do that was the 2020 Denver Nuggets when they beat the Utah Jazz and the Los Angeles Clippers. But the most famous 3-1 comeback in the NBA was when the Cleveland Cavaliers turned the tide against the Golden State Warriors during the 2016 NBA Finals to blow up the NBA betting lines.
How many times has an NBA team come back from a 3-0 deficit in the playoffs? The unfortunate answer is zero times. While no teams have come back to win after being down 3-0, there are three teams that have rallied to tie up a series 3-3 and went on to lose Game 7.
Has a 1 point safety ever happened?
A 1 point safety is extremely rare, but it can happen. What is a 1 point safety in football? A 1 point safety is when the team trying to score a 2-point conversion or PAT turns the ball over, the defense takes the ball out of the end zone, then gets tackled in the end zone for a safety.
Yes it is. Team A scores a touchdown, but the extra point attempt kick is not only blocked, but blocked and then run to the opposite end zone for an offensive safety , which counts 1 point.
The fair catch kick rule is very rarely invoked, and is one of the rarest plays in football. The rule has been regarded as "obscure", "bizarre", and "quirky".
Earlier, in 2019, LSU became the third college football team ever to finish the season at 15-0, and the second in consecutive years. Penn was first to do so in 1897 and Clemson followed in 2018.
The 1972 Miami Dolphins are the only team that has ever achieved a perfect, undefeated season.
New England joined the 1984 San Francisco 49ers and the 1985 Chicago Bears as the NFL's only 18-game winners. The Patriots won 18 games in 2007, tying the NFL's all-time record for most overall victories in a season.
In the NFL, however, regulations stipulate that offensive linemen can only select a number between 60 and 79 and defensive lineman must pick one between 60 and 79 or 90 and 99. As a result, more than a few players over the years have rocked the sex number.
The New NFL Jersey Number Rule by Position
Quarterbacks, Kickers, and Punters: No change. As before, they may wear numbers 1-19.
For instance, "1" is frequently used by the starting goalkeeper, as the goalkeeper is the first player in a line-up. It is also the only position on the field that is required to be occupied.
The only teams with multiple Super Bowl appearances and no losses are the Baltimore Ravens and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, both having achieved a ( 2–0 ) Super Bowl record.
Has an NFL team ever gone 10 0?
The first 10-0 team was the 1972 Miami Dolphins, who went on to win all 14 regular season games and the Super Bowl, a season that still stands alone in NFL history as the lone unblemished campaign.
The NFL has had 49 franchises become defunct over its history, including ten of the league's twelve charter franchises: only the Chicago Bears and Arizona Cardinals survive to the present day.
No, an NFL team has never scored 100 points in a game. The Raiders beat the Oilers 52-49 on Sunday to clinch their first division title in 25 years. They were led by quarterback Derek Carr who threw for 447 yards and five touchdowns.
Longest NFL field goal: Broncos placekicker Matt Prater connects on a 64-yard field goal at the end of the first half on December 8, 2013.
Ernie Nevers single game record of 40 points has stood for an incredible 91 years.
The Raiders are 0-3 for the first time since 2018, and since 1979, six NFL teams have started 0-3 and made the playoffs, the last one being the Houston Texans, which started 0-3 in 2018 but rebounded to win their next nine games and made the playoffs at 11-5 before losing to the Indianapolis Colts, 21-7, in an AFC Wild ...
The Cincinnati Bengals, Las Vegas Raiders, Tennessee Titans, Carolina Panthers, and Atlanta Falcons all started the year 0-2 -- three of those teams reached the playoffs last season. On the opposite end of the spectrum, 63% of teams (165 of 262) that started 2-0 advanced to the postseason since 1990.
Since 1990, 144 teams have started 2-5. Of the latter, only eight have made the playoffs.
The most points scored by a single team, and the most lopsided final score in college football history, occurred on October 7, 1916 when Georgia Tech beat Cumberland 222–0.
Lowest-Scoring Game in NFL History
Similarly, five NFL games in history have finished with a score of 2-0. Again, this has not happened post-merger, with the last such game coming in 1938 between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers. The lowest NFL score in the post-merger history is 3-0.
What is the lowest scoring NFL game?
The lowest scoring NFL game was on November 7, 1943. It was between the Detroit Lions and New York Giants, and ended in a tie at 0 0. That is a record that will be impossible to break.
Of the 28 previous teams to start 8-0, most are remembered only when the history books are opened. More 8-0 teams failed to win a playoff game than won the Super Bowl.
Since 1940, 9 NFL teams have gone an entire season without winning a single game: the 2017 Cleveland Browns who went 0-16, the 2008 Detroit Lions who went 0-16, the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers who went 0-14, the 1942 Detroit Lions who went 0-11, the 1944 Brooklyn Tigers who went 0-10, the 1944 Pittsburgh Card-Pitt who ...
The Patriots added postseason victories over the Jacksonville Jaguars in the divisional playoff round and a 21-12 win over the San Diego Chargers in the AFC Championship Game to run the streak to an amazing 18-0. In doing so, the Patriots became the first team ever to go 18-0 in a season.
Drew Brees was 0-4 in his career against the Ravens coming into Sunday's game but has now beaten all 32 franchises. He joined Peyton Manning and Brett Favre as the only players to defeat all 32 NFL teams.
The only three NFL teams in history to lose all their games were the 2017 Cleveland Browns (0-16), the 2008 Detroit Lions (0-16) and the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-14). So far, no team has gone 0-17, since the league has only expanded to 17 regular season games last year.
Other NFL perfect regular seasons
Apart from the 1972 Dolphins, three NFL teams have completed undefeated and untied regular seasons: the 1934 Chicago Bears, the 1942 Chicago Bears, and the 2007 New England Patriots.
That day Miami lost to the Buffalo Bills to fall to 1-7. No NFL team has gone from 1-7 to the playoffs.
The 2004 Carolina Panthers started 1-7 but would have made the playoffs at 8-8 if not for a three-point loss in their season finale. The 1970 Cincinnati Bengals turned a 1-6 start into an 8-6 finish and a playoff ticket.
Since the National Football League began in 1920, only one team has played a perfect season (both regular season and playoffs): the 1972 Miami Dolphins, who won all fourteen of their regular season games and three postseason games, including Super Bowl VII, to finish the season 17–0–0.
How many NFL teams have gone 9 0?
20 NFL teams that started 9-0 since the 1972 Miami Dolphins.
The Patriots finished the season 16-0 thanks largely to an offense that scored an NFL-best 36.8 points per game and defeated its first 8 opponents by a combined 204 points. Patriots QB Tom Brady won the league MVP after leading the NFL with 4,806 passing yards and set the single-season record with 50 TD throws.
2015 Kansas City Chiefs
then became the second 1-5 team to make the playoffs, mounting a 10-game run that extended to 11 after a shutout win over the Texans in the wild-card round.
The Raiders are 0-3 for the first time since 2018, and since 1979, six NFL teams have started 0-3 and made the playoffs, the last one being the Houston Texans, which started 0-3 in 2018 but rebounded to win their next nine games and made the playoffs at 11-5 before losing to the Indianapolis Colts, 21-7, in an AFC Wild ...
But the most famous 3-1 comeback in the NBA was when the Cleveland Cavaliers turned the tide against the Golden State Warriors during the 2016 NBA Finals to blow up the NBA betting lines.
Yes, this has happened 5 times in history. The 1998 St. Louis Rams (4-12), 2000 New England Patriots (5-11), 1980 San Francisco 49ers (6-10), 2019 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (7-9) and 2016 Philadelphia Eagles (7-9) all won the Super Bowl the next season after having a losing record.
Since 1944, only five teams have had winless seasons in the NFL: the 1960 Dallas Cowboys (0–11–1), the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0–14), the 1982 Baltimore Colts (0–8–1) the 2008 Detroit Lions (0–16), and the 2017 Cleveland Browns (0–16).