BENGALS AT CHIEFS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TODAY’S AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

■ No. 4 Cincinnati Bengals (12-7) at No. 2 Kansas City Chiefs (14-5)

■ AFC Championship

■ 3, today

■ Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri.

CBS/ 700, 1530, 102.7, 104.7

The Bengals lead the regular-season series 16-14 and have won five of the last six meetings. The Chiefs, however, lead 9-7 as the home team.

This weekend’s game marks the first postseason meeting.

■ The Bengals beat the Chiefs 34-31 on Evan McPherson’s 20-yard field goal as time expired on

Jan. 2. They fell behind by 14 points three times in the game, but held the Chiefs to three points in the second half while the offense played catchup. Ja’Marr Chase had a rookie record 266 yards and three touchdowns, including a 69-yarder and a 72-yarder, on 11 catches, and Joe Burrow threw for 446 yards and four touchdowns. Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes threw for

259 yards but 205 of those were in the first half, and top receivers Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce caught just 11 passes for 60 yards and one touchdown combined.

■ The Bengals are 7-14 in playoff games and heading into their third AFC Championship. They are 2-0 in conference championship games but lost both of their Super Bowl appearances in 1988 and 1981. This is the organization’s first postseason trip since 2015, and they broke an eightgame

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playoff losing streak two weeks ago to end a drought that spanned over 31 years . ... The Chiefs are playing in their fourth straight AFC Championship and won the last two, going on to win the Super Bowl to conclude the 2019 season but losing to the Bucs in last year’s Super Bowl. They are 17-20 overall in playoff games, including 4-2 in the conference championship and 2-2 in the Super Bowl. ■ Cincinnati’s Zac Taylor is 18-32-1 in three seasons; Andy Reid is 233-135-1 in 23 seasons as a head coach, including a 145-103 record in nine years with Kansas City.

■ The Bengals are tied for seventh with 27.0 points per game, and their 259.0 passing yards per game ranks seventh as well. Burrow threw for a franchise-record 4,611 yards passing and 34 touchdowns in the regular season, while his 70.4% completion rate led the league among regular starters. He threw for 348 yards last week against the Titans despite getting sacked nine times . ... Joe Mixon’s 1,205 yards rushing in the regular season ranked third in the league, and he had 13 rushing touchdowns . ... Chase broke Chad Johnson’s single-season receiving yards record with 1,455 yards on 81 catches and also has 13 touchdowns. He had 22 catches for 20 yards or more in the regular season . ... Tee Higgins topped 1,000 yards in his second season, recording 1,091 yards and six touchdowns on 74 catches, but was quiet in the Wild Card game and could be looking for a

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