The Detroit Lions can keep their push for 2024 NFL postseason football on track as they start a busy Thanksgiving schedule versus the Chicago Bears in a Week 13 clash.
The first of two clashes this season for the NFC North rivals pits top versus bottom as the hosts bid to keep the charge of the Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers at Bay, available with NFL Game Pass on DAZN.
With a 10-1 record to boast about, Detroit have been one of the form teams this term, and will harbour strong hopes they can go all the way to Super Bowl LIX.
The same cannot be said for Chicago, who arrive on a five-game losing run and sit at the foot of the division, with a 4-7 record that leaves any play-off hopes in tatters.
With the return fixture falling just before Christmas too, it really is a seasonal affair between these storied rivals this term.
But just how do these two teams stack up against each other, and what does their current form tell us about this matchup?
Here's everything you need to know about the head-to-head record between the Lions and the Bears.
Lions vs. Bears head to head record
- Games played: 188
- Lions wins: 78
- Bears wins: 105
- Draws: 5
Lions vs. Bears historical form guide
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One of the longest-running matchups in NFL history, the Lions and the Bears can date their rivalry back to 1930, when the former were known as the Portsmouth Spartans.
A move to Detroit four years later brought them to the current iteration we know, and the pair have been regular rivals for almost a century now, meeting generally twice each term.
As the dominant teams of the Midwest population centers, there has always been plenty on the line between these two, in a relationship originally dominated by Chicago.
Of the two teams, the Bears have always been the bigger and better side, boasting eight pre-merger titles and one Super Bowl success, at XX in 1986.
Chicago went 15-1 that term and scored two big wins over Detroit, who have never quite been able to get the better of their rivals when it has really mattered.
With 19 appearances in the play-offs, the Lions are one of just a few sides to never reach the Super Bowl, one of the longest waits in American professional sports.
They did triumph just last year on their way to the NFC North division crown with a famous come-from-behind victory however, earning a 31-26 victory.
Lions vs. Bears current form guide
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This term however, traffic has been one way. Determined to end their hoodoo, the Lions look like they could be serious contenders in the NFC this year thanks to a 10-1 record.
Since losing to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in their second game of the season, Detroit have embarked on a nine-game win streak - the current best across the NFL.
That has included massive wins along the way, including a 47-9 smash against the Dallas Cowboys, a 52-14 haul versus the Tennessee Titans and a 52-6 rout versus the Jacksonville Jaguars.
It means they have comfortably leapfrogged the Vikings to lead the division, and it will take a miracle even if they slip up to miss out on play-off football now in any shape.
The Bears, conversely, were on the bubble across the start of the campaign, going 4-2 through their first six matches before the rot set in - and brutally so to a point too.
Narrow losses to the Houston Texans and the Indianapolis Colts prefaced a three-game mini run against the Los Angeles Rams, the Carolina Panthers and the Jaguars.
But since returing from a bye in week seven, it has been a downward spiral, kickstarted by defeat against the Washington Commanders in the Madhouse in Maryland.
What is even harder to swallow is that several of these have been narrow reverses too - they lost by a point to the Green Bay Packers and needed overtime to split them against the Vikings.
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