# 21st Annual Super Bowl Early Picks Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-nfl\ **Created:** [January 8, 2024, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/21st-annual-super-bowl-early-picks-thread/995779 "2024-01-08T16:06:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 52
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/21st-annual-super-bowl-early-picks-thread/995779/52 "2024-01-11T14:54:42Z")
Lots of good reasoning and solid opinions here but I’m going the opposite way and going big on a long shot: **Steelers 15,** Packers 9 > [@Bullitt](#): > > I don’t understand the 49ers at #1. It should be the Ravens. I don’t know how she calculates this, but thought I’d share it here, FWIW. From the other thread: > [@NFL 2023: Wildcard Weekend](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2023-wildcard-weekend/995866/28): > > Possibly due to a belief that the AFC field is stronger, and that the Ravens thus have a higher likelihood to suffer a pre-Super Bowl upset than the Niners do; note that the teams ranked 3 and 4 on that list are from the AFC. > [@NFL 2023: Wildcard Weekend](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2023-wildcard-weekend/995866/29): > > Yeah, that’s almost certainly what it is. Not the list of best teams in order but a list of the likelihood of making it through the tournament. That’s going to rely more heavily on the other teams, seeding, etc --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/21st-annual-super-bowl-early-picks-thread/995779)._