NFL PREVIEW \ Today’s game

December 20, 2008 at 12:00a.m.

BALTIMORE (9-5) At DALLAS (9-5)

When: 8:15 p.m.

TV: NFL Network.

Opening line: Cowboys by 5.

Series record: Ravens lead 2-0.

Last meeting: Ravens 30, Cowboys 10, Nov. 21, 2004.

Last week: Ravens lost to Steelers 13-9; Cowboys beat Giants 20-8.

Notebook: This is final regular-reason game at Texas Stadium. Ravens are only team that has never played here before. ... Ravens are 9-3-1 all-time against NFC East teams. ... QB Joe Flacco has thrown touchdown pass in five consecutive road games. ... K Matt Stover is two points shy of 12th consecutive 100-point season. He has played in 108 consecutive games, three short of Peter Boulware’s franchise record. ... WR Derrick Mason needs 106 yards receiving for 1,000 this season, and only 82 to hit 10,000 for career. ... LB Ray Lewis has 24 tackles (16 solo) in two career games against Cowboys. ... Dallas LB DeMarcus Ware, NFL sacks leader with 19, needs four more the last two games to break Michael Strahan’s single-season record. Ware already this season has three two-game stretches in which he had four sacks. ... WR Terrell Owens is 44 yards shy of 14,000 career yards receiving, and needs only 49 more to move into fifth place on NFL list. ... This will be 152nd consecutive sellout at Texas Stadium, including playoffs, a streak that dates back to Dec. 16, 1990. ... Dallas has scored touchdowns on 24 of 37 trips inside the 20; that 65 percent conversion rate ranks second in NFL. But Ravens are second in NFL in defending such situations, allowing league-low 12 TDs inside red zone out of 34 times (35 percent).

Associated Press