Super Bowl favorites are a combined 5-12 against the spread since 2002.
will face off in Miami for Super Bowl LIV
, a marquee matchup of two of the best teams in football. Kansas City is looking to secure its first title since the 1969 season, and San Francisco is looking to snap a 25-year title drought, although the 49ers did make an appearance in the championship game after the 2012 season. The Chiefs, on the other hand, haven’t been in the Super Bowl in a half-century.The consensus opening line at most sports books was pick 'em, meaning no points would be given to bettors on either side.
“You usually do not see many Super Bowls as a dead pick 'em,” Nick Bogdanovich, director of trading at William Hill U.S., said in a phone interview. “I think it will either be a pick 'em, Chiefs favored by 1 or Chiefs favored by 1½ the entire time. I don’t think San Francisco will be favored.”That could be a good thing for the 49ers faithful. Super Bowl favorites over the past 17 years are a combined 5-12 against the spread. The underdog has covered in six of the last eight years.
, behind only presumptive MVP Lamar Jackson. Hill caught all 10 of his catchable deep targets , with four of those going for touchdowns. And Kelce made the pro Bowl for the fifth straight season after hauling in 97 passes for 1,229 yards and five touchdowns, although Super Bowl obligations kept him from playing in that all-star game.
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