Every NFL Team's Road Record Since 1966, Ranked

Since 1966, exactly two NFL franchises have won more road games than they've lost: the Dallas Cowboys, at .525, and the San Francisco 49ers, at .503. The other thirty — including every dynasty, every fortress team, every all-time great home franchise — have losing records away from home.

This is the companion table to our all-time home records ranking, built from the same 13,748 games viewed from the visitors' sideline. It ranks all 32, and then gets to the two findings hiding in it: the strongest single number the Mile High altitude theory has ever had, and the fact that winning on the road is easier now than at any point in sixty years.

Every NFL Team's All-Time Road Record: The Full Table

Regular season only, 1966–2025, current franchise credited across all cities. Records list ties separately; the win percentage column counts a tie as half a win, the NFL's standard method.

#	Team	Road record	Win %	Since
1	Dallas	244-221-1	.525	1966
2	San Francisco	232-229-3	.503	1966
3	Pittsburgh	229-232-4	.497	1966
4	New England	225-236-2	.488	1966
5	Philadelphia	219-239-7	.478	1966
6	LA Rams	220-241-5	.477	1966
7	Indianapolis	219-243-2	.474	1966
8	Kansas City	218-243-4	.473	1966
9	Baltimore	112-128	.467	1996
10	Minnesota	213-244-5	.466	1966
11	Las Vegas	214-247-5	.465	1966
12	Miami	212-249-1	.460	1966
13	Green Bay	211-249-5	.459	1966
14	Washington	207-254-4	.449	1966
15	Seattle	175-217-1	.447	1976
16	Denver	202-258-2	.439	1966
17	LA Chargers	198-263-4	.430	1966
18	New Orleans	195-260-4	.429	1967
19	Tennessee	190-272-3	.412	1966
20	NY Giants	185-273-3	.405	1966
21	Buffalo	185-275-2	.403	1966
22	Chicago	186-279	.400	1966
23	Carolina	99-150-1	.398	1995
24	NY Jets	180-280-3	.392	1966
25	Houston	74-118	.385	2002
26	Atlanta	169-290-4	.369	1966
27	Cincinnati	164-285-2	.366	1968
28	Cleveland	159-282-1	.361	1966
29	Arizona	165-298-4	.358	1966
30	Tampa Bay	137-260	.345	1976
31	Jacksonville	85-163	.343	1995
32	Detroit	152-304-9	.337	1966

Only the Cowboys and 49ers Have Winning Road Records

Dallas at the top of this table means something specific: the Cowboys and the Steelers are the only franchises in the top five of both rankings — Dallas 4th at home and 1st on the road, Pittsburgh 1st and 3rd. Sixty years of being good everywhere is a different achievement than sixty years of being great somewhere.

San Francisco is the stranger case — the true road warriors. The 49ers' home record (.597) is 11th; their road record is 2nd, and the gap between the two (.094) is among the smallest in football. Wherever the game was, they mostly showed up the same.

And Pittsburgh's line is the table's best trivia: 229-232-4 — three games under .500 across six decades. Even the era's best home team, and its third-best road team, couldn't stay above water away from home. That's how steep the road tilt is.

The Lions Are the Worst Road Team in the NFL

Detroit's .337 is the worst sustained road performance in modern football — 152 wins against 304 losses, plus a league-record nine road ties, which feels somehow on theme. The Lions are the only franchise that has lost twice as often as it's won away from home over the full sample.

The rest of the basement is familiar from the home table's lower half — Jacksonville, Tampa Bay, Arizona, Cleveland — with one difference worth naming: these teams weren't bad at home and decent away, or vice versa. They were bad everywhere, which is the only way to stay in both basements for decades.

The Broncos Have the Biggest Home/Road Split in the NFL

Cross-reference the two tables and every franchise gets a home/road split. Most land between .10 and .18. Two outliers define the edges:

Denver's split is .220 — the largest in football. At home: .659, fourth-best of the era. On the road: .439, sixteenth. No other franchise transforms that much at its own doorstep, and no single statistic makes the Mile High altitude argument better than this one. (Baltimore, at .206, and the cold-weather trio of Green Bay, Minnesota, and Detroit fill out the big-split list — altitude and climate, the two oldest theories of home field, both show up exactly where they should.)

New Orleans' split is .066 — the smallest. The Saints are .495 at home and .429 on the road: the league's most venue-independent franchise, for better and worse.

NFL Road Wins Are at an All-Time High

The league-wide road win rate is .431 across the full sample. By decade, it's a mirror of the home-field collapse we documented in the home records piece:

Decade	Road win %
1966–69	.455
1970s	.429
1980s	.428
1990s	.404
2000s	.429
2010s	.431
2020s	.466

The 1990s were the hardest decade in history to win on the road. The 2020s are the easiest. Every record in the table above was accumulated under conditions that no longer hold — which means the road rankings of the next era may look nothing like these.

Where the schedule comes in

A road slate isn't one thing — it's a specific sequence of buildings, time zones, rest gaps, and weather months, and the schedule decides all of it. Three West Coast trips in four weeks is a different season than the same opponents spread out. That sequencing is exactly what you control in the MockSlate builder — build a slate and see whose road year you'd ruin.

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Data: all regular-season games, 1966–2025, from the visiting side (AFL 1966–69 included; franchise moves credited to current franchises). Excludes neutral-site and international games and one cancelled 2022 game; Buffalo's Toronto Series games count as opponent road games. Records list ties separately; win percentages count a tie as half a win, the NFL's standard method. Companion piece: Every NFL Team's Home Record Since 1966.

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