23rd 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
Year 21 : Intergalactic_Gladiator
Year 22 : Pheonix

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 10th (just before kickoff of the first playoff game).

My Prediction:

Bears 46, Patriots 10

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:

Broncos, Patriots, Jaguars, Steelers, Texans, Bills, Chargers

NFC Teams:

Seahawks, Bears, Eagles, Panthers, Rams, 49ers, 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 winning and losing scores

  6. Closest to predicted margin of victory

Broncos 27 Seahawks 21.

Seahawks 31
Patriots 10

Just to be contrary (as an admitted Seahawks fan that really enjoyed the last time the Broncs and Hawks met in the Super Bowl) I’ll flip this around…

Seahawks 27 Broncos 21

Eagles 26, Broncos 17

Seattle 16, Denver 10

Seahawks 24, Texans 20

Broncos 28, Bears 14

Patriots 35, Panthers 24

Seahawks 27, Broncos 24

Patriots 24, Rams 16

Bills 27, Rams 23

Eagles 24, Bills 17

Patriots 31, Seahawks 27

Texans 28, 49ers 13

Patriots 24, Seahawks 10

Patriots 38, Bears 20

Bills 21 Seahawks 19

Packers 31, Steelers 25

Rams 35, Jaguars 31