49ers facts and figures from their dominant NFC Championship win

The 49ers advanced to the Super Bowl by beating the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday night. It marks the seventh time in franchise history San Francisco will play in the Super Bowl, where the Kansas City Chiefs’ high-octane offense with last season’s MVP Patrick Mahomes will be waiting.

Let’s take a quick look at some other facts and figures about this 49ers season and their victory in the conference title game.

▪ Kyle Shanahan and his father Mike will be the first father-son duo to each serve as head coaches for Super Bowl teams. Mike Shanahan was an honorary captain for Sunday’s game and presented the George Halas trophy to Kyle Shanahan on stage following the win.

“It was pretty special,” Kyle said. “To get a trophy handed by anyone is really cool, but especially Jed (York) making my dad an honorary captain. Jed told me it was special for his mom when his uncle handed her the trophy before they won. And, Jed planned all that and did that. It was pretty cool.”

▪ The 49ers became the third team in NFL history to reach the Super Bowl after having four or fewer wins the previous season. The others: St. Louis Rams in 1999 (4-12 in 1998) and Cincinnati Bengals in 1988 (4-12 in ’87).

San Francisco went 4-12 last year after losing quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo to an ACL tear Week 3 against Kansas City, the Super Bowl opponent. It’s highly unlikely Nick Bosa would have been a 49er if Garoppolo had remained healthy.

▪ The 49ers’ 285 rushing yards were the most in the conference championship round since 1970 and the second most in team postseason history.

It was the sixth most all time behind the Buffalo Bills (341, Dec. 30, 1995), Dallas Cowboys (338, Dec. 29, 1980), Atlanta Falcons (327, Jan. 15, 2005), 49ers (323, Jan. 12, 2013) and Denver Broncos (310, Dec. 27, 1997).

San Francisco’s 2013 game, of course, was when Colin Kaepernick set the team’s previous record with 181 yards before helping the team reach Super Bowl XLVII against the Ravens.

▪ The 49ers averaged 235.5 rushing yards in their two playoff games, the most in the postseason during the Super Bowl era.

They had 186 while rushing 47 times last week against the Minnesota Vikings. Sunday, they reached 285 on 42 runs.

▪ Raheem Mostert’s 220 yards were the most of any 49ers game, regular season or playoffs. His 226 scrimmage yards were the most in any conference championship game in history.

▪ Mostert became the first player in the Super Bowl era to have at least 150 rushing yards and three touchdowns in one half of a postseason game.

▪ Bosa and Arik Armstead each had sacks Sunday. They both had sacks last week against the Vikings.

▪ Kicker Robbie Gould’s 54-yard field goal in the second quarter was the longest in the team’s postseason history.

This story was originally published January 20, 2020 at 4:04 PM.