{"id":673738,"date":"2026-01-13T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/673738\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:19:14","slug":"bet-to-win-3-3-million-on-a-chicago-bears-super-bowl-lx-victory-miraculously-stays-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/673738\/","title":{"rendered":"Bet to win $3.3 million on a Chicago Bears Super Bowl LX victory miraculously stays alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bears have been one of the biggest surprise stories of the 2025-26 NFL season, cruising over their preseason win total of 8.5 and earning the NFC North division title and No. 2 seed in the NFC.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the season, after an <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/chicago-bears-philadelphia-eagles-20251128021\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:impressive 24-15 victory;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">impressive 24-15 victory<\/a> over the Philadelphia Eagles on Black Friday in late November, one bettor placed a large wager on Chicago to win its first Super Bowl since the 1985 season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>After that win, a bettor at <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/mediaserver.betmgmpartners.com\/renderBanner.do?zoneId=1734022\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BetMGM;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BetMGM<\/a> in Illinois wagered $50,000 on the Bears at 66-1 odds to win Super Bowl LX. The bet would win $3.3 million, and is the <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/betting\/article\/biggest-super-bowl-60-bets-top-10-largest-super-bowl-lx-wagers-181616366.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:largest reported Super Bowl futures bet;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">largest reported Super Bowl futures bet<\/a> by total liability at any legal sportsbook in the United States. BetMGM moved Chicago&#8217;s Super Bowl odds as a result of the wager.<\/p>\n<p>The ticket was hanging by a thread on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>After closing as a 1.5-point home underdog against the Green Bay Packers \u2014 despite being the No. 2 seed in the NFC \u2014 the Bears looked out of sorts in the first half, eventually trailing 21-3 at halftime after Green Bay scored a touchdown on its first three possessions.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The second half was a completely different story, though, as Chicago came out of the locker room and dominated on both sides of the ball, scoring 25 fourth-quarter points en route to a <a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/green-bay-packers-chicago-bears-20260110003\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:31-27 comeback win;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">31-27 comeback win<\/a>. The Bears had in-game odds as long as 14-1 at one point in the second half, and although Caleb Williams was only 24-of-48 passing, he threw for 361 yards and two touchdowns and looked like a different QB than we saw in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>After the stunning win, the Bears currently have 14-1 odds to win the Super Bowl at BetMGM, and will host their next opponent in the divisional round. Those Super Bowl odds are still well behind the Seattle Seahawks (+375), Los Angeles Rams (+400) and Philadelphia Eagles (+750) in the NFC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bears have been one of the biggest surprise stories of the 2025-26 NFL season, cruising over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,1036,692,391,2493,19012,7,41,58,6,109,261,505,3394,8646],"class_list":{"0":"post-673738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-caleb-williams","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bears","12":"tag-chicagobears","13":"tag-comeback-win","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-green-bay","16":"tag-los-angeles-rams","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","19":"tag-seattle-seahawks","20":"tag-super-bowl","21":"tag-the-bears","22":"tag-the-green-bay-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115887286918300367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}