The Jaguars' Super Bowl odds jumped from last year's preseason prediction, yet remain surprisingly long. Discover what's fueling this shift and whether sportsbooks are overlooking key factors.
Coming out of Super Bowl LX, a championship game for which the Seattle Seahawks were preseason long shot to win, betting odds already have been released for 2027's Super Bowl.
The Seahawks manhandled quarterback Drake May and the New England Patriots, 29-13, on Sunday to become the first team since 2001 to beat 60-1 odds and hoist the Lombardi Trophy as champions.
Seattle already is favored to repeat as champs for Super Bowl LXI, with the betting odds variously at +750 (FanDuel) and +800 (BetMGM), and tied with the Los Angeles Rams with 9.5-1 odds (DraftKings).
Perennial betting favorites like the Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Ravens aren't far behind, at 12-1 for next year, according to BetMGM. QBs Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson are presumed by sportsbooks to have bounce-back seasons in 2026, but Las Vegas surely isn't accounting for each team's blank-slate coaching staffs in figuring those odds.
The Jacksonville Jaguars have better odds for winning Super Bowl LXI (20-1) than they had last year (80-1) for an LX victory. Coach Liam Coen and defensive coordinator Anthony Campanile can largely be credited with bringing Jacksonville inside the top 12 NFL teams with the best odds to win it all.
The Jaguars entered at +2000, as did the Houston Texans and Denver Broncos.
Teams that sportsbooks place between the four with the best odds and the Jags for next year's NFL champion are, in order, the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles (+1400); the Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Chargers, Detroit Lions and the Patriots (tied at +1500); and, at +1700, the San Francisco 49ers.
Given we are entering the back alley of a New World Order of gambling, thanks to Milwaukee Bucks scammy market insider/manipulator Giannis Antetokounmpo and the prediction-market platform Kalshi, it would be no surprise if degenerate gamblers are already laying money on how wrong sportsbooks have it when it comes to these way-too-early preseason Super Bowl predictions.
The Seahawks repeating as Super Bowl champions seems like a righteous prediction, and the positives behind the strength of the Rams' chances -- with Sean McVay's ascendance as the league's most well-respected coach along with a returning MVP in QB Matthew Stafford throwing to one of the league's most dangerous receiving tandems in Puka Nacua and Davante Adams -- help explain Vegas' odds there.
After No. 1 favorite and No. 2, though, the betting lines are head-scratchers.
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