Mike Masala, Niners WireTue, December 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM UTC·1 min readThe San Francisco 49ers traveled to the Midwest in Week 13 for an interconference battle with the Cleveland Browns at Huntington Bank Field, and on Sunday, Kyle Shanahan's squad earned a 26-8 victory to improve to 9-4 on the season and 6-2 on the road.
San Francisco beat Cleveland in all three phases, as their offense found the end zone three times, their defense kept the Browns off the scoreboard and the special teams units set the offense up with great field position multiple times.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThis win gave the 49ers three in a row, which is their second winning streak of three games this season. It also kept the 49ers in seventh place in the conference and brought them within a half-game of the Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks in the division.
On Tuesday, USA Today's Nate Davis released his weekly NFL power rankings, and after having the 49ers at No. 14 last week, this win over the Browns has moved them up to No. 10.
"They'll only leave Silicon Valley once more in the regular season and, at 9-4, the Niners are very much in the mix to snag home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs," Davis wrote.
San Francisco finally has a bye in Week 14, so they're not in control of where they'll fall in next week's rankings, but they will move ahead at least into the sixth seed depending on the result of the game between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers.
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