The San Francisco 49ers face the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday, February 3, in Super Bowl XLVII. San Francisco comes into the game as the number 2 seed in the NFC and are favored by 3.5 points over the 4th seeded Ravens out of the AFC.
The graph below shows the futures odds for each team to win Super XLVII prior to each week during the season.
Super Bowl XLVII futures odds
2012 Summary
The 2012 season saw five different teams, (Green Bay, New England, San Francisco, Houston and Denver) considered to be the favorite to win the Super Bowl at one point during the season. Compare this with 2011 when only two different teams (the Patirots and Packers) were the favorite at some point during the season.
Two days after Super Bowl XLVI Green Bay opened as the favorites to win Super Bowl XLVII at +600. Before the season kicked off, though, New England and Green Bay were co-favorites at +600. Green Bay lost in week 1 and were never seen as the favorites for the rest of the season. New England was the favorite prior to their week 2 loss to Arizona which put 2-0 San Franciso as the favorite at +550. After the 49ers loss in week 3 Houston emerged as the favorite and were as low as +400 prior to week 6. The Texans would remain favorites or co-favorites (with New England) up until prior to week 14 and their blowout loss to New England. The Patriots were the favorites once again and were +350 (the lowest odds of any team during the regular season) prior to their week 15 loss to the 49ers. San Franciso and New England were co-favorites at +450 prior to week 16. Riding a 10-game winning streak into week 17 the Denver Broncos took over as the favorite and remained there until their loss to Baltimore in the conference championships.
Two days after Super Bowl XLVI Green Bay opened as the favorites to win Super Bowl XLVII at +600. Before the season kicked off, though, New England and Green Bay were co-favorites at +600. Green Bay lost in week 1 and were never seen as the favorites for the rest of the season. New England was the favorite prior to their week 2 loss to Arizona which put 2-0 San Franciso as the favorite at +550. After the 49ers loss in week 3 Houston emerged as the favorite and were as low as +400 prior to week 6. The Texans would remain favorites or co-favorites (with New England) up until prior to week 14 and their blowout loss to New England. The Patriots were the favorites once again and were +350 (the lowest odds of any team during the regular season) prior to their week 15 loss to the 49ers. San Franciso and New England were co-favorites at +450 prior to week 16. Riding a 10-game winning streak into week 17 the Denver Broncos took over as the favorite and remained there until their loss to Baltimore in the conference championships.
San Francisco's Super Bowl odds remained steady throughout the season. Other than the initial opening of +1600, their odds were never higher than +700 (following their week 10 tie with the Rams) or lower than +450 (after their week 15 victory at the Patriots). Also, they were the favorites or co-favorites (with Atlanta) to win the NFC from prior to week 2 through the championship game.
Baltimore, meanwhile, had an up and down season and were never considered a favorite to get to the big game. They were +1800 a day before the season started and after a 5-1 start were at their lowest odds of the season at +800. Following a 43-13 week 7 loss at Houston they went up to +1400 and hovered in the +1000 to +1800 range despite a four game winning streak. After a 3-game losing skid their odds rose to +3000 prior to week 16. They entered the playoffs at +2000 and were +800 prior to the conference championships. At no point during the season were they considered one of the top four favorites to win the Super Bowl.
Lines courtesy of Intertops.com
