{"id":707093,"date":"2026-01-26T19:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/707093\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T19:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:47:15","slug":"super-bowl-60-odds-seahawks-open-as-favorites-against-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/707093\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl 60 odds: Seahawks open as favorites against Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Athletic has live reaction and coverage of the latest news ahead of 2026 Super Bowl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The two conference championship games were very different. In the NFC, the Seattle Seahawks won a shootout against the Los Angeles Rams between two teams that looked worthy of that spotlight. In the AFC, the New England Patriots won against a backup quarterback in a snowstorm that made offense a rare commodity. Now, Seattle is favored against the Patriots in the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

The Seahawks are 4.5-point favorites against the Patriots on BetMGM. The associated -235 moneyline odds give Seattle a roughly 70 percent chance of winning the Super Bowl. Seattle was a 5-point favorite for a time on Sunday, but the odds have moved back to 4.5.
Both championship games were epic in their own right. The Seahawks-Rams matchup was epic in a traditional sense. Two talented teams making big plays back and forth until Seattle finally survived against its NFC West foe. The Patriots-Denver Broncos matchup was epic in the sense that the game started with a clean field, but it was covered in snow by the fourth quarter, and neither team could move the ball with any consistency late in the game.<\/p>\n

No one cares how you get there, just that you get there.<\/p>\n

The quarterback matchup for the Super Bowl is not exactly what you would have predicted for the season: Sam Darnold vs. Drake Maye. Both will be making their first Super Bowl starts.<\/p>\n

Maye has had a breakout season in his second season. He wasn\u2019t the first Patriots quarterback after Tom Brady, but he is the first one who appears to be there to stay.<\/p>\n

Darnold struggled with the New York Jets and Carolina Panthers to start his career, but that might be more of a Jets-Panthers thing than a Darnold thing. He was a backup in San Francisco two years ago, a team that went to and lost the Super Bowl, and had a breakout season last year with the Minnesota Vikings. Now, Darnold has guided Seattle to the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

To the same point, neither team was expected to be here before the season. The Seahawks were 60-to-1 to win the Super Bowl at the start of the season. The Patriots had even longer odds at 80-to-1. That means both teams were given less than a 2 percent chance of winning it all when the season started. We know one of them will cash those long odds in.<\/p>\n

The point total is moving around in the mid 40s, which puts this game somewhere between a shootout and a defensive struggle.<\/p>\n

For New England, it\u2019s the first Super Bowl since the Tom Brady era. That was only seven years ago, so it\u2019s not like Patriots fans can claim to be long-suffering.<\/p>\n

Seattle is making its first Super Bowl appearance in 11 years. The Seahawks\u2019 opponent that year? The Patriots. New England won that game 28-24 in Arizona after trailing by 10 at the start of the fourth quarter. Seattle\u2019s last Super Bowl triumph was the year before against the Broncos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletic has live reaction and coverage of the latest news ahead of 2026 Super Bowl. The two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,249,6,238,237,261,2635,5433],"class_list":{"0":"post-707093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-england-patriots","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-seahawks","12":"tag-seattle","13":"tag-seattle-seahawks","14":"tag-seattleseahawks","15":"tag-sports-betting"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115963130287780340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707093","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=707093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}