Entering Sunday’s game against the Bengals, the Pittsburgh Steelers had had 10 prior playoff experiences in which they were facing the same opponent for the third time in that same season. Dating all the way back to a 1947 21-0 loss to the Eagles and stretching all the way forward to the 2014 Wildcard loss to the Ravens, Pittsburgh has been 8-2 in those games.
The Steelers are now 9-2 against opponents in the third matchup of any given season, or 9-1 in the modern era, after the NFL-AFL merger, and since the Super Bowl was inaugurated, now 50 seasons ago.