11.   Fans tend to be more gracious to a vanquished opponent than they would be toward a team walking off the field with a road victory.

12.   Four times an AFC champion, Bennett has been part of such rousing road victories.

13.   He ended a winless streak at six games with back-to-back road victories against St. Louis and Dallas in the last week of December.

14.   If they had beaten the Chiefs, the players felt, that would have been two straight road victories over strong teams.

15.   In four minutes, the Celtics let their best chance at a road victory for the next two weeks slip away.

16.   In other words, the Trojans need to finally earn a road victory instead of collectively shaking their heads afterwards, which usually happens on these excursions.

17.   In the NFC Central, the Bears pulled out a road victory at Minnesota to maintain their one-game lead against Green Bay.

18.   Iowa has road victories at Penn State and Purdue, which goes against the norm.

19.   It would be the biggest road victory for LSU in more than a decade.

20.   It was another setback for Rutgers, which was coming off its first Big East road victory of the season, against Boston College on Wednesday.