“The Niners need to win their remaining four games in order to guarantee the No. 1 seed and home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs. By virtue of their dominant wins against the Eagles and Cowboys, the Niners hold the tiebreaker against both of them. The only way they would fall from that spot is if they lose and at least one of Dallas or Philadelphia wins out.
ESPN’s Football Power Index ranks the Niners’ remaining schedule as the 16th-most difficult in the league, which lands in the middle ground between the tough slate awaiting the Cowboys and the easy one in front of the Eagles.