Reading through the comments that followed this week’s Reacts survey, it became clear that many, if not most, of the people responding to our survey expect the Seattle Seahawks to beat the New England Patriots quite handily in Super Bowl LX. The word “blowout” appears frequently in those comments.

It turns out that those Washington fans are in good company.

While 87% of respondents in our survey expect Seattle to win, 82% of fans in a nationwide poll (that includes Patriots supporters) also believe the Seahawks will be hoisting the Lombardi trophy Sunday night.

Of course, no team has more Super Bowl wins than the New England Patriots. They are a really good and deserving team of reaching this level, but throughout the season they have had to deal with people criticizing their strength of schedule. With former player and 3-time Super Bowl champion Mike Vrabel now in charge as head coach of the Pats, they could surprise everybody — well, around 85% of everybody, anyway.

Some Commanders fans are asking out loud: if the Patriots defy the odds and win on Sunday, what would that say about the Commanders’ decision to draft Jayden Daniels ahead of Drake Maye, who, in addition to being the runner up in the MVP voting, would now be a Super Bowl champion in his 2nd NFL season?

Super Bowl LX could turn out to be a defense-dominated, low scoring affair in which the team that makes the fewest mistakes wins. After all, the two teams facing off on Sunday fielded the two stingiest defenses in the league, with the Seahawks and the Patriots allowing a regular season average of 17.1 and 17.3 points per game, respectively.

Of course, neither team is an offensive slouch either. The Seahawks were the 2nd ranked regular season scoring offense at 29.2 points per game; New England ranks 8th at 27.2 ppg.

In the playoffs, the Seahawks have been the highest scoring offense (36 ppg) while the Patriots have had the toughest scoring defense (allowing just 8.7 ppg). It feels like something will have to give.

Just prior to publishing, the Seahawks are 4.5-point favorites, while the over/under for total points scored is 45.5.

The game kicks off at 6:30pm on Sunday, February 8th and will be televised on CBS.