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There was much ado about the 6-3 Cowboys being favored over the 8-1 Vikings in Minneapolis. Well, oddsmakers might have been a bit off, but not in the way everyone expected.Dallas cleared the over the Vikings with room to spare Otto Porter Jr. Jersey , throttling the Vikings 40-3 at U.S. Bank Stadium on Sunday.Acro s the board, Dallas was the far superior team. The Cowboys had more than 2.5 times the number of total yards. They had po se sion for nearly two-thirds of the game. The game ended with both backup quarterbacks in. The contest was so lopsided that CBS stations acro s the country switched to the Bengals-Steelers telecast.There are a lot of wild statistics that show the Cowboys' dominance and the current state of the Vikings. The Sporting News dives into a few of them.MORE: Dak Prescott carves up the Vikings' secondaryPeople were skeptical heading into the game about Prescott's ability to lead the Dallas offense. He came into the game with a 2-2 record, while Cooper Rush went 4-1 in his five starts during Prescott's injury absence. Safe to say that if the debate over the quarterbacks wasn't silenced before Sunday, it will be after.Prescott was sensational, pa sing for 276 yards and a pair of touchdowns while completing 22 of 25 pa ses. That gave him a 139.3 pa ser rating. This came against a Vikings pa s defense that ranks 15th in the league in pa sing defense-adjusted value over average, .And NFL Next Gen Stats backs up the pa sing numbers. It reported that Prescott completed 21.8 percent pa ses over expected, which is the best for a quarterback in the past three years who had thrown at least 25 times in a game.Dak Prescott completed +21.8% of his pa ses over expected in the Troy Brown Jersey Cowboys' 40-3 victory over the Vikings, the highest by any QB with at least 25 attempts in a game over the last three seasons.Prescott's only incompletions came when he was pre sured. | Next Gen Stats (@NextGenStats) MORE: Tony Pollard vs. Ezekiel ElliottThe more legitimate debate over who should start in the Dallas backfield continues to remain the guy standing next to Prescott. Elliott has been the starter when healthy. When he has been out, Pollard has been the guy. And even while backing up, Pollard has frequently looked the more explosive of the two.That certainly didn't change on Sunday. Elliott was the starter and scored a pair of touchdowns on the ground, but overall he was far le s efficient. He averaged 2.8 yards per carry (42 yards on 15 Trevor Ariza Jersey rushes), while Pollard averaged 5.3 yards per carry (80 yards on 15 carries).Pollard's big game didn't stop on the ground. He caught all six targets for 109 yards and a pair of touchdowns, including a 68-yard scoring catch on a wheel route. , Pollard is the only running back ranking in the top five in both rushing yards over expected (+254) and receiving yards over expected (+76). On Sunday, he had 32 yards over expected on the ground and 69 yards over expected through the air.Dak Prescott finds Tony Pollard on a wheel route 21 yards down the field, the first deep TD reception out of the backfield this season.Pollard reached a top speed of 20.39 mph, his 2nd touch of the game over 20 mph, already doubling his season total. | Next Gen Stats (@NextGenStats) MORE: The Cowboys stifle the Vikings' offenseThe Vikings came into the game 10th in the league with 226 points and tied for 16th with 5.4 yards per play. That offense was bottled up by the Dallas defense.Minnesota managed just 16 first downs, its second-fewest in a game this season; 183 total yards, by far the fewest in a game this season; and the three points, its fewest since a 20-3 lo s to the 49ers in Week 1 of the 2015 season. Kirk Cousins pa sed for 105 yards, the third-fewest in a start during his career.The Dallas defense kept the Minnesota pa sing attack off-balance with its pre sure. Cousins was sacked a career-high seven times for a lo s of 49 yards.A big part of that pa s rush came from star linebacker Micah Parsons. The 2021 Defensive Rookie of the Year finished with a career-best 10 pre sures. He had two sacks, 27 pa s rushes, a pre sure rate of 37 precent and a pa s-rush get-off of 0.70 seconds, .MORE: The Vikings' 2022 point differential goes negativeIf you're looking for an explanation of why oddsmakers might not have been sold on the Vikings, look no further than their point differential. Minnesota came into the game tied for eighth in the league at plus-35.That PD took a major hit Sunday. With the 37-point lo s, the Vikings drop to minus-2, which puts them 16th in the NFL.The lo s also gives the Vikings the unfortunate distinction of being the first team with eight wins or more through the first 10 Garrison Mathews Jersey games of a season to have a negative point differential, . The next-closest team is the 1987 Chargers, who started the year 8-2 and with a plus-6 point differential. The Chargers did not win another game that year and mi sed the playoffs ay 8-7 (one game was canceled because of a players strike). Not exactly the most rea suring sign for Minnesota's 2022 hopes.MORE: This was a historic win for DallasThese types of wins don't come around often. reports that, since 2000, there have been 100 wins with at least a 37 point differential. Throw in the fact it was against an 8-1 team on the road, and the magnitude of the win only grows.According to The Athletic's Jason Starrett, the win is a.) The biggest road win in Dallas history, b.) The largest win by the Cowboys against a team that was 8-1 or better, and c.) Tthe largest win by a team since 2000 against an John Wall Jersey 8-1 or better team.The Cowboys blew out the Vikings 40-3 on Sunday.The 37-point win was the- Largest road win in Cowboys history- Largest win in Cowboys history vs. opp that was 8-1 or better- Largest win by any team this century vs. opp that was 8-1 or better Jason Starrett (@starrettjason) Not too bad for a Dallas team that was favored by only 1.5 points.