Conference Championship Road Favorites

The 49ers are 4.5 point favorites in Atlanta for the NFC Championship Game, making them just the 13th Championship Sunday road favorite (with the largest spread) since 1978:
 

									Vegas
Tm	Year	Date	Time	LTime		Opp	Day	Result	Spread	vs. Line
GNB	2010	2011-01-23	3:05	2:05	@	CHI	Sun	W 21-14	-3.5	covered
PHI	2008	2009-01-18	3:00	1:00	@	ARI	Sun	L 25-32	-3.5	not covered
NWE	2004	2005-01-23	6:30	6:30	@	PIT	Sun	W 41-27	-3.0	covered
MIN	2000	2001-01-14	12:30	12:30	@	NYG	Sun	L 0-41	-1.0	not covered
GNB	1997	1998-01-11	4:00	1:00	@	SFO	Sun	W 23-10	-1.5	covered
BUF	1992	1993-01-17	12:30	12:30	@	MIA	Sun	W 29-10	-2.5	covered
SFO	1988	1989-01-08	4:00	3:00	@	CHI	Sun	W 28-3	-2.0	covered
DAL	1982	1983-01-22	12:30	12:30	@	WAS	Sat	L 17-31	-2.0	not covered
DAL	1981	1982-01-10	4:30	1:30	@	SFO	Sun	L 27-28	-3.0	not covered
DAL	1980	1981-01-11	1:00	1:00	@	PHI	Sun	L 7-20	-1.0	not covered
RAM	1979	1980-01-06			@	TAM	Sun	W 9-0	-3.5	covered
DAL	1978	1979-01-07	5:00	2:00	@	RAM	Sun	W 28-0	-3.5	covered

Provided by Pro-Football-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 1/14/2013.

The 1980-82 Cowboys are one of only four teams to lose three straight conference title games*. Although they are the only team that did not have any of those games at home, they were road favorites in each one.

* The others are the 1973-75 Raiders, the 1974-76 Rams and the 2001-03 Eagles.

Road favorites are 7-5 and they covered the spread in all seven victories.