Analyzing the Cincinnati Bengals Tough Road to the 2013 Super Bowl

 

Here’s the entire list of home and away opponents for 2013:

 

HOME	AWAY
Patriots (12-4)	Bears (10-6)
Colts (11-5)	Ravens (10-6)
Packers (11-5)	Steelers (8-8)
Vikings (10-6)	Chargers (7-9)
Ravens (10-6)	Dolphins (7-9)
Steelers (8-8)	Bills (6-10)
Jets (6-10)	Browns (5-11)
Browns (5-11)	Lions (4-12)

 

• The Bengals play 7 teams that won 10 or more games, but 5 of them come to Cincinnati.
• Over the past two seasons, the Bengals have gone 8-8 vs. these teams, and have gone 4-4 this season.
• The Bengals will face the NFL’s leading rusher (Adrian Peterson), receiver (Calvin Johnson), interceptions (Tim Jennings), and passer rating (Aaron Rodgers)
• Cincinnati will host 5 of this year’s playoff participants, but play just one team on the road who made the playoffs (Baltimore).
• The last time the Bengals played the AFC East in 2012, they went 0-4 against them, and have lost seven of the past eight games against teams from the East.

 

Getting through the 2012 schedule with a winning record and a playoff berth will be a daunting task, but if the Bengals can survive, they’ll be as battle-tested as any NFL team, making them a legitmate threat to make a Ravens-like Super bowl run next year.

 

 

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