21st Annual Super Bowl Early Picks Thread

The playoff teams are set, so it’s time for our annual contest – can you predict the Super Bowl a month before the game and join our list of champions?:

Year 1 : Trillionaire

Year 2 : Uncommon Sense

Year 3 : Airman Doors, USAF

Year 4 : Grits and Hard Toast

Year 5 : Hal Briston

Year 6 : dalej42

Year 7 : Justin_Bailey

Year 8: Hamlet

Year 9: Hal Briston

Year 10 : AlsoNamedBort

Year 11 : Jahiegel

Year 12 : borschevsky

Year 13: Oakminster

Year 14 : borschevsky

Year 15 : phungi

Year 16 : ElvisL1ves

Year 17 : muldoonthief

Year 18 : Telemark

Year 19 : LoneRhino

Year 20 : Railer13

It’s simple to play – just post your pick for the two Super Bowl teams, and the final score. Deadline for submissions will be 4:30 pm Eastern on Saturday, January 13th (just before kickoff of the first playoff game).

My Prediction:

Ravens 28, Cowboys 24

PLEASE NOTE: It’s not an absolute requirement, but it’s very helpful to me if you format your pick the same way I did above – “Winning team name and score, losing team name and score”, on its own line. No locations, just the name. Feel free to add any other commentary on a separate line. Thanks!

As always, just in case you don’t follow football but still wanna play along, just pick an AFC team, an NFC team, and a couple of numbers that sound vaguely football-scorish.

AFC Teams:

Ravens, Bills, Chiefs, Texans, Browns, Dolphins, Steelers

NFC Teams:

49ers, Cowboys, Lions, Buccaneers, Eagles, Rams, Packers

The tiebreakers:

  1. Picked both teams, got winner correct
  2. Picked both teams, got winner wrong
  3. Picked winner correctly
  4. Picked loser correctly
  5. Closest to individual scores
  6. Closest to predicted margin of victory

Browns beat the Lions, 23-20. :smiley:

Packers 28, Ravens 22.

Hope, like homerism, springs eternal.

Lions 28, Ravens 24

mmm

Ravens 35, 49ers 22.

Chiefs 24, Rams 18

Bills 27, Lions 17

Browns 24, 49ers 17

Niners 30 Chiefs 24.

I hate to say this and I hope Kyle Shannan gets his coaching head out of his ass, but I fear it’s going to be:

Ravens 31, 49ers 17

(Even though I really want the 49ers to win it all. GO NINERS!!!)

Bills 28, 49ers 27.

I was in Vegas a few months ago and placed a $20 bet with this very parlay.

Lions 35, Chiefs 31

Browns 5, Lions 2

Because if this is the outcome, I’ll look absolutely amazing for my prediction abilities.

49ers 34
Bills 23

Ravens 31, Cowboys 24

Bills 35, Packers 24.

I don’t follow football but I like to vote.

Chiefs 31 - Cowboys 17

49ers 38, Ravens 30

Ravens 30, 49ers 24

49ers 38, Ravens 35

I hate to go with the consensus picks but these 2 teams are clearly the best teams in their respective conferences. I’m going with the 49ers because Kyle Shanahan is the best current head coach to not win a Super Bowl.