After picking up its first road win of the season on Sunday night, the Cowboys stay on the road this week as they play the Atlanta Falcons at Mercedez-Benz Stadium.
The Falcons are a 3.5-point favorite and ESPN’s Matchup Predictor gives Atlanta a 59.4-percent chance to win.
Here are more particulars:
TV: Noon CT on Fox.
RECORDS: Cowboys (4-5, 1-4 on the road) at Atlanta (4-5, 3-2 at home)
SERIES HISTORY: 26th regular-season meeting. Dallas leads 14-11. In an odd bit of scheduling, Dallas travels to Atlanta for the second-straight season. The Falcons dealt Dallas a painful 27-7 defeat last November that started a Cowboys three-game skid.
BY THE NUMBERS: 410 – The Cowboys’ total yards in their 27-20 win over Philadelphia, their most on the road this season by 87 yards and 122.5 more than their average on the road in 4 previous road losses.
PLAYER SPOTLIGHT: RB Ezekiel Elliott is getting close to notching his second 1,000-yard season of his NFL career. Elliott rushed for an NFL-leading 1,631 yards as a rookie in 2016. He came up 17 yards shot of 1,000 in 2017 despite a 6-game suspension for violating the NFL’s personal-conduct policy. Elliott has 831 through nine games. He has 4 games over 100 rushing yards this season and two games in which his combined rushing a receiving topped 180.