Latest Super Bowl Odds Prior to 2021 NFL Kickoff – Chiefs Favored, Brady’s Bucs Given Short Odds to Repeat

• The last two teams to win the Super Bowl are the top contenders entering the 2021 NFL regular season
• At +500, the Super Bowl 54 champion Kansas City Chiefs are the chalk
• Defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers are +650 to repeat

Could the 2022 Super Bowl be a repeat performance? It’s only happened once previously in NFL history. The Dallas Cowboys and Buffalo Bills clashed in the 1992 and 1993 Super Bowl games. We’re looking at a similar possibility with the Chiefs and Bucs as the preseason favorites in the latest Super Bowl odds.

As the 2021 NFL regular season sets for Thursday’s kickoff, oddsmakers are favoring a repeat performance, albeit with a different outcome.

The Kansas City Chiefs, 31-9 losers to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in last season’s big game, are the +500 favorites in the odds to win the Super Bowl in 2022. KC downed San Francisco in the 2020 Super Bowl game.

If the form charts hold, the betting line says it will be the Bucs who are back looking to stop the Chiefs again. Tampa Bay is the second betting choice at odds of +650.

Super Bowl 56 Odds

All odds as of September 7th at FanDuel

No other NFL team is given shorter odds than +1200.

Chiefs Are The Chalk

This season will make the 56th time that the NFL  will be holding a Super Bowl game. Over the previous 55 years, there’s been just three occasions when one team went to at least three Super Bowls in succession. Those odds don’t bode well for the Chiefs.

.@PatrickMahomes' signature no-look and sidearm passes.

Can't wait to see what the @chiefs QB will do in 2021. 👀

📺: #CLEvsKC — Sunday, Sept. 12 at 4:25pm ET on CBS
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— NFL (@NFL) September 6, 2021

The Chiefs were the NFL’s #1 pass offense, #6 overall offense, and #6 scoring offense in 2021. Patrick Mahomes is as dangerous a quarterback as there is in football. KC ranked just in the middle third of NFL defensive teams last season, though.

The AFC West is also getting better. The Los Angeles Chargers are improving, and the Denver Broncos could be dangerous with a competent quarterback. You never know what you’ll get from the Las Vegas Raiders, but they always play the Chiefs tough.

The Bucs Stop Here

The last three Super Bowls were either won by Kansas City or Tom Brady. Two of the last three preseason picks went on to win the game.

That being said, Brady is 44. Historically, NFL QBs 44 and older own a 1-4 record. He’ll need to defy history yet again.

The Super Bowl champion @Buccaneers are a 100% vaccinated organization. 🙌 (via @BruceArians) pic.twitter.com/EkAKt8IiP8

— NFL (@NFL) September 2, 2021

Brady recently admitted that he caught COVID-19 shortly after the Buccaneers’ Super Bowl win. Evidently, he is human after all. It’s always dangerous to bet against Brady, but even he’s only won back-to-back Super Bowls once.

Will The Bills Pay Off?

Kansas City lost in the 2019 AFC Championship Game and then went to the next two Super Bowls. The Buffalo Bills were defeated by KC in last season’s AFL title game. Are they about to go on a Super Bowl run of their own?

Josh Allen games w/ 300+ Pass yards:

🔹 2018 & 2019 – 0
🔹 2020 – 8

Could we see Josh Allen take another step forward in Year 4? 👀pic.twitter.com/gsw02ZkES5

— PFF (@PFF) September 6, 2021

That’s a popular theory and one that is not without merit. QB Josh Allen should be an NFL MVP contender. The Bills return 20 of 22 starters and one of the game’s best coaching staffs led by Sean McDermott.

Don’t Sleep On San Francisco

It seems that people have forgotten that the 49ers were 2019 NFC champs. An injury-plagued 2020 season saw 32 players go in IR, including QB Jimmy Garoppolo, DL Nick Bosa, and TE George Kittle. The Niners went 6-10.

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Be on the lookout for this breakout @49ers WR. pic.twitter.com/TkrGgMXSy4

— NFL (@NFL) September 4, 2021

This team is loaded on both sides of the ball. If the 49ers stay healthy, they can go all the way.

Going Off The Board

In 2017, the eventual Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles opened with odds of +5100. Is there a team down the board like those Eagles that might be worth a look?

Think you have @K1 locked up in the backfield?

Think again. pic.twitter.com/ngFpCjjiGJ

— NFL (@NFL) September 5, 2021

The Arizona Cardinals, perhaps. Already with QB Kyler Murray and receiver DeAndre Hopkins in place, they added the veteran savvy of wideout AJ Green and two-time NFL defensive player of the year JJ Watt. Unfortunately, they play in the NFC West, the NFL’s deepest division.

Pick: San Francisco 49ers (+1400)