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Highlights from Sunday’s NFL games:
* 10 of 13 games (76.9%) were decided by seven points or fewer, marking the first Sunday since Oct. 10, 1999-a span of 34 weeks-that there were 10 such games in a single day.
* With Monday night’s two-point victory by the Cowboys, 11 of 14 Week 5 games (78.6%) were decided by seven points or less-one shy of the record of 12 of 14 set Week 15 of 1993.
* Five teams had game-winning scores on the final play.
* Three of those five games went into overtime (all on Sunday)-the most in a single day since Nov. 10, 1996.
* The New York Jets came back from a 17-0 deficit to defeat Miami, 21-17. The 17-point comeback victory matched the third-largest in club history.
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