Super Bowl

Ten years ago, the New England Patriots won the Super Bowl and successfully defended their championship.

The odds are against the Baltimore Ravens doing the same.

My, how far we’ve come in the world of sports gambling since Bart Starr’s Green Bay Packers took on the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl I. Believe it or not, that game didn’t even have a total set, the only Super Bowl without an over/under.

Now, you can bet on anything from the coin flip to whether or not Beyonce will show cleavage during the halftime entertainment.

This goes without saying, obviously, but looking at previous Super Bowls should have zero effect on how you go about handicapping the big game. But it can still be interesting to look at.

The single-most frequent email we receive around this time of year goes something like this: “I’m coming to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl, where do you recommend watching?”

In an attempt to be proactive, we’re going to spend the next couple of weeks suggesting places.

Yes, we realize this NFL season is far from over, but the LVH SuperBook in Las Vegas became the first to release 2014 Super Bowl futures odds, and the Patriots are again the favorites at 6-to-1. Behind New England are the 49ers and Broncos (8-to-1), and Packers and Seahawks (10-to-1).

Read on for the first look at your team’s Super Bowl chances in 2014.

The Harbaugh Bowl needs to happen.

And the odds of it occurring—after opening at +3100 before the playoffs started—are now down to just +500 at Bovada.

Three of the five most likely Super Bowl matchups (out of 36 possibilities) involve the Denver Broncos.

In this post, we’ve listed the odds of every potential matchup, from the most likely (Broncos-49ers) to the one that has almost zero chance of happening (Bengals-Vikings).