Broncos/49ers Vegas Favorites for Superbowl 48

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-bowl-favorites-las-vegas/18392/?source=skipframe-bleacherreport.com

Before the 49ers and Ravens even stepped on the field for Sunday’s Super Bowl, the Denver Broncos already led the list of favorites for next season.

The Broncos opened as 5-1 favorites Sunday to win the 2014 Super Bowl in New Jersey (the final game of the 2013 season) at the MGM Race and Sports book in Las Vegas. The book has the 49ers as co-favorites with Denver at 5-1.

The Patriots and Packers follow at 7-1. And bringing up the rear as the longest long shots: the Chiefs are 150-1 and the Jaguars 200-1.

The MGM odds:

BRONCOS 5-1
San Francisco 5-1
New England 7-1
Green Bay 7-1
Seattle 10-1
Houston 10-1
Baltimore 10-1

Atlanta 12-1
Pittsburgh 15-1
New Orleans 15-1

Dallas 20-1
Indianapolis 20-1
N.Y. Giants 20-1
Chicago 20-1

Washington 25-1
Philadelphia 25-1
Cincinnati 25-1
Minnesota 25-1

Carolina 30-1
Detroit 30-1
N.Y. Jets 30-1
San Diego 30-1

Miami 50-1
Tampa Bay 50-1
Buffalo 75-1
Tennessee 75-1

Oakland 100-1
Arizona 100-1
Cleveland 100-1
St. Louis 100-1

Kansas City 150-1
Jacksonville 200-1

I hope we do go to the SB next year.  The way this year ended is very bitter.

Man, I liked it better when the Broncos flew under the radar more.  I guess when Peyton Manning is your quarterback there's no getting around the perennial attention he garners.  Well, now that the Superbowl is over it's time to focus on next season.  Let the offseason begin.

Go Broncos!!

MH64

I'm kind of surprised to see the Broncos as AFC favorites. My money would be on the Texans or Patriots. 

I'm kind of surprised to see the Broncos as AFC favorites. My money would be on the Texans or Patriots. 

I'm not.  Of the last 4 AFC playoff teams the broncos were a series of mental mistakes from the conference championship and possible SB, Ravens are going to lose a ton of talent in FA.  Even if they franchise Flacco they are $20 million over cap.  The texans had a late season collapse and got waxed twice by the patriots, until they can prove that was a fluke there will be questions.  The patriots should be up there but they have some peices missing on defense, I would think they are around our talent level, maybe less, I am biased though.

I'm kind of surprised to see the Broncos as AFC favorites. My money would be on the Texans orPatriots. 

I'm not.  Of all the teams that played the Ravens in the playoffs, the Broncos gave them the best game (and had them beat if not for a miracle, once in a blue moon kind of play). The Texans don't have a good enough qb to be the favorite, and the Patriots, while good, have issues they really need to address (like whether or not they resign Welker, and how they are going to fix that defense).

And in to the fact that I think a lot of people think the Broncos will be better next year because of continued improvements to Manning's health and the benefit of having played an entire season with the offense, and I think it's pretty logical to currently have the Broncos as the favorite in the AFC.