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2008 Superbowl Predictions
by Predictem.com Staff
We haven’t yet reached summer but football is already on many of our minds. Let’s look towards next February and make a prediction on who will be playing in Super Bowl XLII in Glendale, Arizona. Will this be the year your team wins it all? To make this prediction I will use the total wins as predicted by looking at the over/under win totals in each conference to determine who will have the best records. We will use the opening lines from the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel to come up with our predictions.
Updated 2/2: Our Superbowl XLII pick is New England at -12!
Here would be our winners in each division:
NFC East Champion – Philadelphia (9 wins)
NFC North Champion – Chicago (10 wins)
NFC South Champion – New Orleans (9 wins)
NFC West Champion – Seattle (9 wins)
Wildcard Teams – Dallas (9 wins) and Carolina (9 wins)
AFC East Champion – New England (11 wins)
AFC North Champion – Baltimore (9 wins)
AFC South Champion – Indianapolis (10.5 wins)
AFC West Champion – San Diego (10.5 wins)
Wildcard Teams – Denver (9.5 wins) and Cincinnati (9 wins)
Now that we have our playoff teams we will match them up:
Round 1
Carolina at New Orleans – The Saints win this game with a huge home crowd advantage so we will advance them to round 2.
Dallas at Seattle – Another wild card game that features a huge home field advantage. Let’s advance the Seahawks to round 2 also.
Cincinnati at Indianapolis – The defending champion Colts win this offensive shootout and advance to round 2.
Denver at Baltimore – The tough Raven defense will make it tough on the Broncos; however, we need an underdog to advance and will go with Coach Shanahan finding a way to come up with an upset. The Broncos advance to round 2.
Round 2
Seattle at Chicago – Chicago’s defense will force Haselback into several turnovers and advance the Bears to the NFC Championship.
New Orleans at Philadelphia – The upset for round 2 will come from this game as the high powered Saints show too much offense for Donovan McNabb to keep up with.
Denver at New England – The Broncos, coming off an upset of the Ravens, just don’t have enough horses (no pun intended) to beat Tom Brady and the Patriots in New England!
Indianapolis at San Diego – The defending champs against the Chargers in what should be the best game of this round. We will advance the Chargers based on having an off week and the fact that is just too hard to repeat after winning a Super Bowl. If this match up happens I would definitely suggest a wager on the underdog plus the points since this is truly a toss-up.
NFC Championship
New Orleans at Chicago – A rematch of last year’s NFC Championship. This is a classic match up of offense (New Orleans) against defense (Chicago). Since defense is what wins championships we will advance the Bears to the 2008 Super Bowl.
AFC Championship
San Diego at New England – A new coach for the Chargers but the same old result. The Patriots are just too good at home in the playoffs and will advance to the Super Bowl.
Super Bowl
Chicago vs. New England – The Patriots have made several off-season moves to improve their team and I think the addition of Randy Moss and several other receivers is just what Tom Brady needs to earn another Super Bowl MVP.
Based on the above happening here is my wager the Super Bowl winner:
New England +385 – wagering 2 units to win 7.7 units.
Chicago +2050 – wagering 1 unit to win 20.50 units.
Good luck!
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