Remember when the Denver Broncos won Super Bowl 50? Don’t expect them to repeat that feat in 2016.
Oddsmakers listed the Broncos as +1400 to win next year’s Super Bowl, putting them with the sixth-best odds among NFL teams. The last time a Super Bowl champion repeated was when New England won back-to-back championships in 2003 and 2004.
According to Oddsshark, the Patriots are the odds-on favorite for the 2016 season. New England is set at +700 to win the Super Bowl after finishing this past season in the AFC Championship game. New England won the 2014 Super Bowl.
The usual suspects follow New England, with Seattle, Pittsburgh and Green Bay going off at +1000, while Carolina, the other representative in the Super Bowl, is at +1100. Seattle, Green Bay and Pittsburgh all lost in the divisional round of the 2015 playoffs.
The team with the best odds that didn’t make the playoffs is the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys share the same odds as the Broncos at +1400. Dallas was decimated by injuries during a 4-12 campaign in 2015. With Tony Romo and Dez Bryant back in the lineup, oddsmakers are expecting bigger things out of the Cowboys in a weak NFC East.
The other Championship game representative, the Arizona Cardinals, own odds of +1600, putting three of the four Championship game contenders with odds of fifth, sixth and eighth heading into the 2016 season.
The playoff team with the worst odds to win the Super Bowl is Washington at +5000, putting them behind fellow division opponents Dallas, Philadelphia and the New York Giants.
If you’re feeling lucky, the Cleveland Browns are the ultimate long-shot in the NFL. The Browns are going off at +15000. The teams with the second-worst odds, Miami, Oakland, Jacksonville and Tennessee, are listed at +6600.
