Cincinnati Bengals Have Winning Streak vs. Winless Teams as New York Jets Prepare to Visit Paycor Stadium

The Cincinnati Bengals will try to avoid becoming the New York Jets first  win in 2025

CINCINNATI – Sunday will mark the sixth time in Cincinnati Bengals history that they have faced a team that was 0-7 or worse.

And just the second time the opponent has not been a divisional foe.

The New York Jets will visit Paycor Stadium at 0-7 under first-year head coach Aaron Glenn.

The last time the Bengals faced a winless team this late in the season was 2017 when the Cleveland Browns came to Cincinnati with a 0-10 record.

The Bengals won that game 36-10.

Here are the other instances:

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2016

The Browns were 0-12 when they played host to the Bengals.

Cincinnati won 23-10 in Cleveland.

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1997

The only other non-division incident, the Indianapolis Colts were 0-9 and steamrolling toward the No. 1 pick and Peyton Manning.

The Bengals won 28-13 in Indianapolis.

1984

For the second year in a row, the Oilers were winless when they faced the Bengals.

This season they were 0-8, and Cincinnati prevailed 31-13 in Houston.

1983

The Oilers were 0-9, and the Bengals drubbed them to a 0-10 mark with a 55-14 win in Houston.

1975

The Browns were 0-9 when the Bengals arrived at Municipal Stadium, and they were 1-9 when they left after beating them 35-23.

Jets are 0-7 for third time

This is just the third time in Jets franchise history that the team has been 0-7.

The most recent occurrence was in 2020.

The Jets would fall to 0-13 before securing their first win of the year, a 23-20 road triumph against the Rams.

The only other time in Jets history was 1996.

That team only stayed winless through 0-8 before going to Arizona and the beating the Cardinals 31-21.

Since the 1970 merger, there have been 53 teams who have started 0-7.

Forty-one of them went on to fall to 0-8.

Which means the Jets have roughly a 23 percent chance of pulling off the upset Sunday.

The Bengals are 6-point favorites.

Cincinnati has been favored by 6 points or more at home 11 times during the Zac Taylor era (2019-present).

The Bengals are 8-3 in those games, with the most recent loss coming in Week 3 last year on Monday night against the Commanders.

They were 7.5-point favorites and lost 38-33 to fall to 0-3.

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