Beating a team three times in a season isn’t easy. The 49ers learned that lesson last year when they fell to the Rams in the NFC championship game after beating them twice in the regular season. This year was a different story when they faced a divisional opponent in the playoffs.
After beating the Seahawks twice in the regular season, the 49ers hosted them on wild card weekend. The result was more of the same we saw in the regular season and San Francisco came away with a 41-23 win for their third victory over Seattle this season.
The talent gap was pretty apparent, especially in the second half, and it shouldn’t be a huge surprise San Francisco won all three of these matchups this year. However, recent history against Seattle hasn’t been kind enough to San Francisco to assume they were going to win.
In fact, their third win over Seattle this season matches their total number of victories against them since the 2013 campaign.
In 2013 the 49ers split with the Seahawks. They split again in 2018 and 2019. Every season in between there – 2014-17 and 2020-21 – were all sweeps by Seattle.
If we include the playoffs, the 49ers were 3-16 against the Seahawks entering this season. They’re 3-0 for 2022 though, and now they have a chance to gain back some of the ownership of the rivalry Seattle acquired over the last decade.
