Bengals 43-36 Titans: 13-0 down, level at 36-36, saved in overtime

Thirteen to nothing after one quarter. Forty-three to thirty-six after overtime. Everything at Paycor Stadium lived in the gap between those two numbers: a Tennessee start that looked decisive and a Cincinnati finish that made it irrelevant.

Joey Slye opened the scoring with a field goal either side of a Tony Pollard touchdown — 0-3, Pollard, then 0-13. Tennessee was 13-0 clear in Cincinnati before the Bengals got on the board. The reply came in the second quarter: Ja'Marr Chase scored, Jack Endries scored, and the home side nudged 14-13 in front by halftime.

Tee Higgins' touchdown lifted Cincinnati 21-13 in the third, before Pollard's second score and a Cam Ward two-point conversion levelled it at 21-21. A safety from Demetrius Knight Jr. carried the Bengals into the fourth 23-21 ahead — and then the game broke open. Chimere Dike put Tennessee back in front, Mike Gesicki answered at 29-28 with the extra point missed, and a Wan'Dale Robinson touchdown plus Gunnar Helm's two-point conversion swung it to 29-36. Five scoring plays landed in that fourth quarter, Higgins scored again, the extra point made it 36-36, and regulation settled nothing.

Overtime brought the one thing the rest of the game had lacked: a final answer. Joe Burrow's touchdown, completed by the extra point, landed the score at 43-36 and closed an afternoon in which Cincinnati had trailed by 13, led by eight and trailed again by seven. Seven different Bengals found the scoresheet; Burrow supplied the only points that decided anything.

Tennessee scored 36 and left Cincinnati with nothing. Games are usually decided by margins — this one waited for an extra period and let the final touchdown choose.