Super Bowl Bets Favor Bengals, But Odds Are Rams Raise The Lombardi Trophy

The Massive Sport has arrived, and document betting is anticipated with greater than 31 million American’s inserting a wager on Tremendous Bowl LVI, in line with a current report by the American Gaming Affiliation. The Los Angeles Rams are a 4-point favourite and the over/underneath is 48.5 throughout the board at main on-line sportsbooks.

Whereas the Super Bowl odds favor the Rams to win, most sportsbooks are reporting extra bets and cash on the Bengals. That features a number of bets by ‘Mattress Mack’ totaling $9.5 million on Cincinnati to win the Tremendous Bowl.

Coin Toss

Following the singing of the Nationwide Anthem, bettors might be anxiously awaiting the choice of the coin toss. That’s proper, one of the vital in style Tremendous Bowl prop bets is the coin toss.

QB MVPs

As you agree in to look at the Tremendous Bowl and make your closing bets on key players for every crew, the main target will land on the 2 star quarterbacks with loads of flying footballs anticipated. Each Matthew Stafford and Joe Burrow have been among the many league leaders in passing yards, and likewise two of simply three quarterbacks that handed for greater than 8.0 yards per cross. Each quarterbacks have shined within the playoffs so as to add to their top-3 QB scores amongst NFL quarterbacks.

Stafford (+125) and Burrow (+230) are the favorites to win Tremendous Bowl MVP because the video games Most Helpful Participant. But when the Rams win and rating extra as anticipated, it might be that the NFL’s Offensive Participant of the Yr Cooper Kupp (+600) is the MVP if he catches his share of passes and touchdowns after breaking quite a few receiving information this season.

I correspond with skilled handicappers and bettors all through the season, and listed below are another prop bets and popular props.

Rams Widespread Props

Following a really sturdy season choosing NFL underdogs, I’m on the favourite and wager the Rams to win the Super Bowl. I beforehand wager the NFC (pk) over the AFC later within the common season, and have dozens of prop bets on the sport in anticipation of a Rams victory.

One is RB Cam Akers to go ‘over’ 15.5 receiving yards, which has been wager as much as 17.5 at some sportsbooks. Skilled handicapper Bob Stoll of Dr. Bob Sports supplied a few of his math fashions and projections with added perception on a few of his prop bets.

“Cincinnati’s protection allowed the 4th-most targets to opposing working backs this season,” Bob Stoll advised me through electronic mail. “I anticipate coach Sean McVay to make the most of the display sport, and Akers is the Rams greatest weapon on screens and led Rams working backs in yards per route run this yr.”

Cooper Kupp has seen one of many greatest strikes upward in his receiving yards prop, which is as much as 107.5 yards at some sportsbooks.

Bengals Widespread Props

In Louisiana, the place sports activities betting simply opened two weeks in the past, all eyes are on former LSU gamers Joe Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase. Bettors closely favor the Bengals on the moneyline (+165), which is down following Mattress Mack’s large bets in Louisiana.

The cash continues to return in on Joe Burrow’s props. Sportsbooks report bettors are betting ‘over’ Burrow’s passing yards (between 274.5 and 279.5), dashing makes an attempt (2.5) and the preferred wager ‘over’ his dashing yards (11.5).

Dr. Bob thinks Burrow could also be on his again or scrambling extra with the Rams heavier stress and nice cross rushers Aaron Donald and Vonn Miller main the cost. The Rams QB sack prop is over/underneath 3.5 with heavier vigorish to the over.

“Burrow has suffered a ten.0% sack charge for the reason that week 10 bye and that proportion ought to be increased in opposition to an excellent Rams line of defense.”

Stoll famous that three Bengals offensive linemen all rank among the many worst within the league in stress charge allowed at their positions.

Greater Scoring 2nd Half

One different prop to notice right here is the market affect and recognition of betting the 2nd half to have extra scoring than the primary half (-120 and wager up). That’s occurred in 17 of the final 23 Tremendous Bowls (one push), and 62% of all 55 Tremendous Bowls.  

“I believe the distinction between the Tremendous Bowl and the common season is that the crew main the sport is extra prone to proceed to play to attain in a Tremendous Bowl than in an everyday season sport when much less is at stake,” Stoll says. “The trailing crew additionally tends to take extra probabilities and turn out to be extra aggressive late in a Tremendous Bowl, which may result in large performs by the offense and the protection.”

All the eye Sunday might be on the gamers, groups and Tremendous Bowl protection from SoFi Stadium on the Rams house subject in Inglewood, simply Southwest of Los Angeles. But with document betting on Tremendous Bowl LVI, individuals in California will be unable to legally wager on the sport with U.S. sportsbook operators, as sports betting in California will not be but authorized within the Golden State.

California is lacking out on tens of millions in income. However the cash behind the Tremendous Bowl extends past the bets. When the sport is completed and the Gatorade is showered on the profitable coach, every of the NFL’s 32 groups could have acquired $220 million in nationwide media rights payouts.

However billions extra might be wager on the Tremendous Bowl.

You possibly can wager on it.