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Cincinnati Bengals

12-4-0 1st in AFC Central
Logo for the 1981 Cincinnati Bengals

PPG

26.3

3rd

OPP PPG

19.0

12th

RUSH YDS/G

123.3

17th

PASS YDS/G

262.5

4th

The Cincinnati Bengals were 12-4 in 1981. They finished 1st in the AFC Central and 1st in the AFC. They fell to the San Francisco 49ers, 26 to 21, in Super Bowl XVI. It was their first Super Bowl appearance.

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