With both teams listed as favorites in their respective Conference Championship matchups this weekend the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots are pegged as a strong 5/6 wager in NFL futures betting to be the exact matchup at Super Bowl XLIX.
The Seahawks remain a strong bet to repeat as champions; Seattle owns odds of 5/4 to once again raise the Vince Lombardi Trophy at the sportsbooks, along with 20/31 odds to come up short in their quest for their second title.
New England, meanwhile, is a 19/10 bet to claim their fourth Super Bowl title, and 10/23 to not win the championship.
While the Patriots enter their AFC Championship Game clash with the Indianapolis Colts as heavy 7.5-point favorites, it is the Seahawks and Colts who carry the second-best odds of being this year’s Super Bowl exact matchup, pegged at 3/1.
An Indianapolis Super Bowl win pays a handsome 13/2; however the odds of the Colts watching another team celebrate victory on Super Bowl Sunday is a short 1/12.
Like Indy, the Green Bay Packers are heavy underdogs this weekend, pegged as 7.5-point underdogs in their NFC Championship Game matchup against Seattle.
The Pack are an 11/2 bet to win Super Bowl XLIX, but own discouraging 1/9 odds that say they will have to wait another year before returning to glory.
An exact matchup between New England and the Green Bay Packers is a 4/1 bet in Super Bowl online betting, while a showdown between Indy and Green Bay is considered a longshot with odds of 8/1 at the sportsbooks.
Seattle is pegged as an early three-point favorite in a potential Super Bowl matchup with the Patriots. An exact result where the Seahawks top the Patriots in Super Bowl 2015 also carries short odds of 2/1.
However, the Patriots still maintain the confidence of oddsmakers, and are pegged as a 3/1 bet to emerge victorious in a Super Bowl exact matchup with the Seahawks.
Seattle is favored by 6.5 points in a potential matchup with the Colts, and is a solid 5/1 bet to capture the win in the event of a Seahawks/Colts Super Bowl matchup, while Indianapolis is a distant 9/1.
The New England Patriots sit as early 2.5-point favorites over Green Bay in their possible Super Bowl matchup, with the Patriots listed at a solid 13/2 to beat the Packers should they meet in Super Bowl XLIX, while a Green Bay win over New England carries intriguing odds of 8/1.
With the Colts and the Pack both pegged as heavy underdogs on Conference Championship Weekend it is no surprise that all betting scenarios involving a possible Colts/Packers exact Super Bowl matchup carry long odds.
An exact Super Bowl matchup between the Packers and Colts sits as an 8/1 longshot in NFL online betting, with the Packers sitting as three-point favorites over the Colts.
A bet on Green Bay to earn their first Super Bowl victory in five years with a win over Indianapolis carries odds of 12/1, while a Colts Super Bowl win earned by knocking off Green Bay is pegged at a distant 14/1.