2013 Super Bowl Betting Futures
There will be no Super Bowl winner this year.
Because no teams appear capable of winning it.
The Broncos are at 3/1 in the latest odds offered by Bovada, but Denver has already lost (big) to the Patriots, who in their last two games were beaten at home and should have lost on the road to the worst team in the AFC (Jacksonville).
The 49ers? After losing by 29 points at Seattle, San Francisco has slipped to 9/2 (from 7/2 the previous week).
Atlanta has the best record in the league (13-2), but the Falcons are at 6/1 (a slight bump from 13/2 the previous week). Everyone is waiting for Atlanta to get spanked again in the playoffs.
And speaking of lighter bandwagons, action on the Texans (dropping to 13/2 from 11/2) is negligible after Houston managed all of six points in a loss, at home, to Minnesota.
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Seattle has made the biggest jump, going from 10/1 to 6/1 after that 42-13 beatdown of the Niners. Russell Wilson may the soup of the day, but rookies don’t win Super Bowls.
Green Bay’s 55-7 victory over Tennessee didn’t impress the williamhill oddsmakers. In fact, the cheesehead backers can get a better bang for their buck now (13/2) than before (6/1) they obliterated the Titans. Go figure.
Real value lies in the bottom of the AFC pool, where the Ravens’ odds are at 22/1, the Colts at 35/1 and the Bengals at 40/1. All are already in the playoffs and can spend Week 17 resting key players.
***Baltimore has all the requisites for a nice long playoff run – a decent quarterback, a solid defense and motivation galore after peeing away a Super Bowl shot when they dropped a touchdown pass and missed a chip-shot field goal in New England. But can the Ravens’ aging and banged-up defense keep it together for four playoff games?
***Cincinnati could be headed toward a winnable wild-card game in Foxboro against a Patriots team that has been dreadful in six of the last eight quarters. New England was fortunate to escape in Jacksonville, and Tom Brady is pissed that after 16 weeks of the season the Patriots have hardly any intensity. The Bengals could be this year’s 2007 Giants.
***Then there are the Colts, who will start and end on the road. The 35/1 roulette payoff is nice, but the Colts have a small margin for error with a rookie quarterback.
Indy also has only one quality win this year, and that came way back in early October when they knocked off the Packers, when Green Bay was hardly at the top of its game back then.
The NFC long shots include the Cowboys (50/1 after spitting the bit in a pretty-much must-win home loss to the Saints), Vikings (60/1 but closing fast down the home stretch); and the Giants (100/1 and done on one side; it’s over for the defending champs).
The latest odds to win the Super Bowl, courtesy of Bovada:
| Team | This Week | Last Week |
| Broncos | 3/1 | 4/1 |
| Patriots | 4/1 | 4/1 |
| 49ers | 9/2 | 7/2 |
| Falcons | 6/1 | 13/2 |
| Seahawks | 6/1 | 10/1 |
| Texans | 13/2 | 11/2 |
| Packers | 13/2 | 6/1 |
| Redskins | 12/1 | 14/1 |
| Ravens | 22/1 | 28/1 |
| Colts | 35/1 | 40/1 |
| Bengals | 35/1 | 40/1 |
| Bears | 40/1 | 40/1 |
| Cowboys | 50/1 | 38/1 |
| Vikings | 60/1 | 70/1 |
| Giants | 100/1 | 20/1 |
