A lot of people come to our website to learn how to bet on the Super Bowl, and we are proud to be that source of information for most of the internet. Over the next couple of weeks we will be evaluating a large number of online sports books and recommending which ones we believe will be the best to use to bet on the NFL Super Bowl. We will look not just at reputation and past history of Super Bowl odds and bets available (although this will be a part of it), we will also be looking at the odds, the payout methods and Super Bowl prop bets each internet sports book is offering for the 2012 game.
Currently our #1 Online Sports Book is Bovada (see the link on the right side of the webpage). If you want to bet on the Super Bowl today, you can’t go wrong with them. This book has been one of our top 5 sports books to bet the Super Bowl with since 2006 and has been the number 1 sportsbook for the Super Bowl for the last two years.
After the Giants win tonight there are only 4 teams that you can bet to win the Super Bowl. Congrats to all this weekend’s winners.
The fun started yesterday when the San Francisco 49ers beat the Saints in San Fran. The 49ers won the game and covered the spread when Alex Smith completed a 14 yard touchdown pass to Vernon Davis with 9 only seconds left! This was Davis’s second touchdown catch of the game. Smith also ran for a touchdown and threw another TD pass to Michael Crabtree. Everyone’s favorite fantasy football kicker David Akers, who kicked 44 field goals during the regular NFL season, also kicked 3 field goals in the game. The 49ers star running back Michael Turner didn’t score but ended up with 89 rushing yards and 38 receiving yards in the game.
The 49ers have a lot of star power. I’m sure a lot of people will be betting on them to win the Super Bowl, and if they make it to the Big Game, there should be some great prop bets offered on their players.
The second winner yesterday was the New England Patriots who simply destroyed the Broncos. The spread on this game was 2 touchdowns, and that obviously wasn’t enough. People love to bet on the Patriots and Tom Brady to win the Super Bowl. Brady is already a two time Super Bowl MPV, and this team Patriots team is stacked with talent.
Tom Brady set am NFL playoff record yesterday by throwing for 6 touchdowns in a single game. The first one was to Wes Welker less than 2 minutes after the game started. He followed that with three touchdown passes to Rob Gronkowski, one to Deion Branch, and another to Aaron Hernandez. Brady was on fire! The Patriots kicker, Stephen Gostkowski, ended the game with 6 extra points and a field goal.
With Green Bay’s lose to the New York Giants, the New England Patriots are the odds on favorites to win the Super Bowl. They have gone to the NFL Super Bowl 4 times since Tom Brady has taken over at quarterback, and they won it 3 of those times. If you want to bet on the Patriots to win the Super Bowl, do it now! The odds will only get worse if (or when) they beat the Baltimore Ravens next week. That said, if you like any team to win the Super Bowl, you should bet on them now. For example, if the Ravens win next week, their odds will change drastically to win the Super Bowl once they are actually playing in the Super Bowl!
The Baltimore Ravens beat the Texans in today’s first game. The Ravens all-star defense was lead by veteran stars Terrell Suggs, Ed Reed and Ray Lewis, and their offense was lead by quarterback Joe Flacco and wide receiver Anquan Boldin. Ray Rice was relatively quit today he had 21 carries for only 60 yards. Joe Flacco threw 2 TD passes today, the first was to Kris Wilson and the second was to Boldin. Lee Evans and Torrey Smith were both quiet on the day. The Ravens kicker Billy Cundiff had 2 extra points and 2 field goals on the day.
The Baltimore Ravens in the Super Bowl would enable Las Vegas to create some very interesting Super Bowl prop bets. You never know what this team is going to do and who is going to do it. One week it looks like Joe Flacco sucks and Ray Rice is carrying the team, the next week Rice is ineffective and Flacco and Anquan Boldin step up. But if there is one reason to bet on the Ravens to win the Super Bowl, it’s their defense. The saying is “Defense wins Championships (aka Super Bowls)”. If that is still true today, you should expect the Ravens, the 49ers or the Giants to win the Super Bowl as they have some of the best defenses around.
The last winner today was the New York Giants who knocked off last year’s Super Bowl Champions, the Green Bay Packers. Eli Manning threw 3 touchdown passes, two were to Hakeem Nicks and one was to Mario Manningham. Fantasy football star Victor Cruz was relatively quiet today with 5 catches for 74 yards. Giants running back Brandon Jacobs rushed for a touchdown and Ahmad Bradshaw lead the team with 63 rushing yards on the day. New York’s kicker, Lawrence Tynes, was good for 4 extra points and 3 field goals.
As he said at the beginning of the year, Eli Manning is proving that he is an elite NFL quarterback. He has already won the Super Bowl once with the Giants, and they have a good shot at winning the Super Bowl again. The New York Giants also have a great shot at meeting the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl again for a rematch of Super Bowl XLII. Who would you bet on this year?
Congratulations again to the teams who won this weekend. We’d love to see any of them win the Super Bowl. The Baltimore Ravens, the New York Giants, the New England Patriots and the San Francisco 49ers… One of these teams will win the 2012 NFL Super Bowl. Which one are you going to bet on?
