Hundreds of millions of dollars will be bet on Super Bowl LVII. David Purdum tracks the biggest bets to the wackiest wagers here.
The countdown to Super Bowl LVII between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs has begun, and the betting at sportsbooks on a game that’s expected to have billions of dollars riding on it is heating up.
We’ll follow it all right here, the biggest bets, the wackiest wagers and the prolific prop bets.
Good luck!
Consensus Super Bowl LVII line:
Eagles (-1.5)
Total: 50
• The first of what is expected to be several seven-figure bets on the Super Bowl was reported Saturday morning by BetMGM: $1 million on the Eagles on the money line at -125 odds. A BetMGM spokesperson declined to provide any additional details about the bet, including where it was placed.
• „As of this morning, the Chiefs and the over is our best result,“ Craig Mucklow, vice president of trading for Caesars Sportsbook, said Saturday. „But there’s no way that’s going to hold.“
• On Saturday, the amount of money bet on the winner of the Super Bowl (money line) was 50/50 at DraftKings, while 72% of the money bet on the game’s point spread was on the Eagles -1.5.
• A bettor with PointsBet placed a pair of $100 bets on the backup quarterbacks for each team winning the Super Bowl MVP. The bettor put $100 on the Eagles‘ Gardner Minshew at 250-1 and $136 on the Chiefs‘ Chad Henne at 100-1.
• At DraftKings, the two starting QBs, the Chiefs‘ Patrick Mahomes and the Eagles‘ Jalen Hurts, were attracting the most action to win MVP. The player getting the third-most action? Eagles outside linebacker Haason Reddick, who, at 35-1, has attracted more bets than Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce (11-1).
