Sunday’s Ravens-Steelers matchup is a big game in one of the NFL’s best rivalries, and also a continuation of one of the league’s biggest coaching rivalries.
Ravens coach John Harbaugh and Steelers coach Mike Tomlin will meet for the 36th time on Sunday.
Harbaugh became the Ravens’ coach in 2008, a year after Tomlin became the Steelers’ head coach, and they have met twice in each regular season and three times in the playoffs since then.
Tomlin and Harbaugh have faced each other the second most times of any pair of coaches in NFL history. Only George Halas and Curly Lambeau, who faced each other in 49 games between 1921 and 1953, faced each other more times than any pair of coaches in NFL history. Halas coached the Bears for 40 seasons. Lambeau coached the Packers for 29 seasons, the Chicago Cardinals for two seasons and Washington for two seasons.
In 35 games, Tomlin is 20-15 against Harbaugh. The Ravens are three-point favorites Sunday in Pittsburgh.