After two weeks on the road, Miami was back in the Orange Bowl to host the cellar-dwelling 2-6 New England Patriots. The unbeaten Dolphins were heavy favorites going in and showed why as raced to a 31-0 halftime lead and only poured it on from there, winning by a 52-0 final.
To this day, it still holds as the largest margin of victory in team history. But it also turned out to be a special day for Don Shula as it marked the head coach’s 100th career regular-season victory. And with that, after winning 71 games from 1963-69 in Baltimore, Shula became the first head coach in NFL history to get to 100 wins in his first 10 seasons.