The Cowboys may very well have clinched home field advantage after the game tomorrow, but this hardly makes tomorrow’s game any more interesting. Still hard to believe that the game is largely meaningless, and hopefully tomorrow results in more excitement.

For the video preview from NFL Films, click here.

And the preview from Yahoo:

The last time the Dallas Cowboys won 13 games in a regular season, they won the first of three Super Bowl titles during a dominating stretch in the 1990s.

This year’s Cowboys show signs of having similar potential.

A week after clinching the division, Dallas looks to take the next step and guarantee a first-round playoff bye when it hosts the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.

The Cowboys (12-1) come in having won seven straight since suffering their only loss of the season to New England on Oct. 14. Dallas rallied to win 28-27 last Sunday against the Detroit Lions to capture the NFC East title for the first time since 1998.

Tony Romo was 35-of-44 for 302 yards and two touchdowns, recording his seventh 300-yard effort of the season. The Cowboys scored 14 points in the final quarter, completing the comeback on Romo’s 16-yard TD pass to Jason Witten with 18 seconds left in the game.

“We still have more to accomplish. It’s a stepping stone of what we’ve wanted to do from the start of the season,” linebacker Akin Ayodele said. “For us, we can cross out one of our goals, and we can move on to the next.”

The Cowboys are now setting their sights on wrapping up a first-round bye with a win or a Seattle loss at Carolina on Sunday. They also could guarantee themselves home-field advantage through the NFC playoffs with a win and a Green Bay loss at St. Louis.

“As soon as we got those (NFC East champion) hats, (coach Wade Phillips) was saying home field, and there’s so much more,” Witten said.

Witten and the Cowboys realize just making the playoffs won’t be good enough for one of the best teams in franchise history. Only the 1992 Dallas team with Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin won 13 games in a regular season. That team went on to win the Super Bowl, the first of three it won over a four-year stretch.

Terrell Owens said the Cowboys’ rise to prominence this year didn’t surprise him.

“I had a feeling this season was going to be very special,” he said. “Knowing that we had a new coach and they added me to the guys on this team and the talent of the guys on this team.”

Sunday will be the fourth time Owens will face the Eagles (5-8) since his acrimonious exit from Philadelphia at the end of the 2005 season. Owens had 10 catches for 174 yards and a touchdown in Dallas’ 38-17 win over the Eagles on Nov. 4 in Philadelphia.

“I know there are things I probably could’ve done differently,” he said when asked if he had any regrets about his time with the Eagles. “Overall, I’m content with where I am. I honestly know that everything that was reported when I got suspended there wasn’t true. Everything happens for a reason. I feel like I got the better end of the deal.”

AccuScore

For the second week in a row, Dallas won 83% of AccuScore’s simulations, still surprising given the Eagles dominance of the Cowboys until this year. Here is the preview:

Even though this is a huge rivalry, it will be hard for the Eagles to play with passion given that their playoff hopes are dashed and Donovan McNabb may be playing his final few games as an Eagle. Do not look for sympathy from Terrell Owens and Tony Romo. After a subpar Week 13, the combo comes back with 6 receptions, 100 yards and 1 TD. Jason Witten follows up his massive 15 reception performance with 6 more receptions this week. With the passing game cruising for the first half, the rushing game takes over to close the game and look for Marion Barber to rush for another TD. The Cowboys effectively limit Brian Westbrook to just 110 total rushing and receiving yards.

What If Sports

At What If Sports, Dallas won 82.0 percent of the simulations by an average score of 30.6 to 14.2. We don’t need a repeat of last week, though.

Pigskin Pick’em: Dallas Favored by 10 1/2

All of the members of the ESPN Talent picked Dallas to win. ESPN users are less certain, with 59.0% picking Dallas to cover the 10 1/2-point spread.

The Eagles swept the season series last year, but the Cowboys won the first meeting this year. On Nov. 4, Dallas scored a 38-17 win over Philadelphia. Terrell Owens caught 10 passes for 174 yards and a touchdown against his former team. Marion Barber totaled 106 yards from scrimmage and scored on a five-yard run.