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Packers Started Season as Long Shots

On the eve of the NFL’s divisional playoffs, only the Chiefs have longer Super Bowl championship odds than the Packers.
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Packers Started Season as Long Shots
Packers Started Season as Long Shots

GREEN BAY, Wis. – Even after reaching the NFC Championship Game last season, the Green Bay Packers were considered long shots to win this year’s Super Bowl.

Not anymore.

On the eve of the NFL’s divisional playoffs, BetMGM has the Packers at +400 to win the Lombardi Trophy. That’s second only to the Kansas City Chiefs at +220. Of the eight teams alive in the playoffs, the Packers and the Browns had the longest odds entering the season.

From BetMGM’s John Ewing, here are the Super Bowl championship prices for the remaining teams from the start of the season to today:

• Chiefs open +650, now +220

• Packers open +3500, now +400

• Saints open +1200, now +550

• Bills open +2500, now +600

• Ravens open +750, now +800

• Bucs open +1600, now +900

• Rams open +2500, now +2200

• Browns open +3500, now +2500

“Green Bay has the second-highest ticket percentage to win the Super Bowl at 10.0 percent and the third-highest handle percentage to win the Super Bowl at 7.5 percent,” Ewing said. “While we are taking a lot of action on the Packers to win it all and have adjusted their odds from an opener of +3500, Green Bay winning it all would still be a win for BetMGM. The Bucs and Chiefs are the sportsbook’s biggest liabilities.”

Chiefs vs. Packers – the two teams to earn first-round byes – is considered the most likely matchup at +310.

The Super Bowl MVP market is led by Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes at +350 and Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers at +525. Green Bay receiver Davante Adams is ninth at +2800.

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Bill Huber, who has covered the Green Bay Packers since 2008, is the publisher of Packers On SI, a Sports Illustrated channel. E-mail: packwriter2002@yahoo.com History: Huber took over Packer Central in August 2019. Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillHuberNFL Background: Huber graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he played on the football team, in 1995. He worked in newspapers in Reedsburg, Wisconsin Dells and Shawano before working at The Green Bay News-Chronicle and Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1998 through 2008. With The News-Chronicle, he won several awards for his commentaries and page design. In 2008, he took over as editor of Packer Report Magazine, which was founded by Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke, and PackerReport.com. In 2019, he took over the new Sports Illustrated site Packer Central, which he has grown into one of the largest sites in the Sports Illustrated Media Group.

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