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The 49ers are Still the Super Bowl Favorite

Here are the teams with the best odds to win the Super Bowl this year according to BetUS:
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The 49ers are Still the Super Bowl Favorite
The 49ers are Still the Super Bowl Favorite

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This is surprising.

Coming into last weekend, the 49ers were projected to beat the Ravens in the Super Bowl. Then those teams played each other in Santa Clara on Christmas, and the 49ers were 6-point favorites, because they were the home team and they had an extra day to rest and prepare. And they lost by 14. And the game was even uglier than the score indicates, considering the 49ers scored 7 points in garbage time.

And yet, after that incredibly embarrassing loss to the Ravens, the 49ers are still the favorite to win the Super Bowl. I kid you not.

Here are the teams with the best odds to win the Super Bowl this year according to BetUS:

1. 49ers: +240

2. Ravens: +400

3. Dolphins: +800

4. Eagles: +800

5. Chiefs: +900

6. Bills: +1000

7. Cowboys: +1000

8. Lions: +1800

9. Jaguars: +3500

10. Browns: +3500

11. Rams: +6600

It's like the Christmas game didn't happen, or didn't matter in the eyes of the oddsmakers. And maybe they're right. But it seems like they're going with the 49ers' narrative that they beat themselves, the interceptions were unfortunate and they'll play much better next time they face the Ravens, if they face them again.

But the 49ers didn't just beat themselves. The Ravens beat them. Beat them up. The Ravens simply were better than the 49ers on that day. Of course, that doesn't mean the Ravens will be better than the 49ers in the Super Bowl if both teams get there.

Still, it's hard to watch the Christmas game and think the 49ers have the Ravens right where they want them.

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GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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