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The Patriots are only the second team in NFL history and the first since the league expanded to a 16-game schedule in 1978 to go through the regular season unbeaten.

The Miami Dolphins set a 14-0 perfect season in 1972 and went on to win the Super Bowl.

Two other records were broken in the game as Tom Brady and Randy Moss set single-season records for touchdown passes and TD catches respectively.

Laurence Maroney ran for a pair of touchdowns as the Patriots erased their largest deficit of the season, trailing 28-16 early in the third quarter before running off 22 consecutive points.

Brady's two touchdown passes - both to Moss - gave him 50 for the season, eclipsing the previous mark of 49 set by Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts in 2004.

Moss hauled in both scoring passes, including the go-ahead touchdown on a 65-yard bomb in the fourth quarter, to give him 23 for the season. That broke the previous mark set by Jerry Rice in 1987. The Brady-Moss connection showed how lethal it can be on back-to-back plays early in the final quarter.

With New England trailing, 28-23, Brady fired a long strike for Moss that was a bit underthrown down the right sideline. A wide-open Moss tried to reach back for the ball but dropped it. On the very next play, Moss ran an identical route down the right sideline and Brady hit him in stride for 65 yards. Maroney ran in for the two-point conversion and a 31-28 lead with 11:06 to play.

Cornerback Ellis Hobbs intercepted Giants quarterback Eli Manning at midfield on the ensuing possession and the Patriots took advantage. Maroney finished off a nine-play, 52-yard drive with a five-yard TD run to extend the margin to 38-28 with 4:36 to play.

Manning brought the Giants back downfield, hitting Plaxico Burress with a three-yard scoring pass with 1:04 to play to pull within 38-35. But the Patriots recovered an onside kick and ran out the clock to preserve the magical season.