Bears, Giants in Top-Five of Super Bowl 61 Betting Handle – See 10 Most-Bet Teams to Win 2027 Super Bowl

• The early Super Bowl 61 betting-handle statistics have been released
• The Seahawks and Patriots are joined in the top five by some unlikely teams
• See the ten most-bet teams to win the 2027 Super Bowl

Wagers are already flooding in for Super Bowl 61, which will take place at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA, on Feb. 14, 2027.

The defending-champion Seattle Seahawks opened as the betting favorites and are the most-bet-on team in the early going. But the Seahawks and runner-up New England Patriots (second) are joined by some unlikely teams at the top of the betting-handle board.

Super Bowl 61 Betting Handle & Splits

Rounding out the top-five in the Super Bowl 61 betting handle are the Chicago Bears, New York Giants, and Detroit Lions.

The Bears won the stacked NFC North with an 11-6 record but were just 15th in the 32-team league in point differential (+26). Chicago benefitted from the league’s highest turnover margin (+22) – powered by a league-best 33 takeaways – which is generally an unsustainable stat, year-over-year.

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Giants Among Public’s Favorite Super Bowl 61 Picks

Coming off a disastrous 4-13 season, the New York Giants are the fourth-most bet team to win Super Bowl 61, attracting 4.5% of handle on 3.8% of wagers.

Jaxson Dart has a decent first season and was near the top of the Offensive Rookie of the Year odds for most of the year (ultimately losing out to Carolina’s Tet McMillan). But the main reason for the optimism around the Giants comes from the sideline, where longtime Baltimore boss John Harbaugh is taking over for Brian Daboll. The latter sputtered to a 20-40 record over three-plus seasons.

In 18 seasons with the Ravens, Harbaugh compiled an elite 180-113 regular-season record (.614 win percentage) along with a 13-11 postseason record (.542 win percentage) and one Super Bowl ring (2012-13).

Baltimore reached the postseason 12 times in Harbaugh’s 18 seasons. The Giants have just two playoff appearances in the last 14 seasons.

Public Likes Lions to Get Back on Track

At this time last year, the Detroit Lions opened as a +900 top-five favorite to win Super Bowl 60. After going 9-8 and missing the playoffs in 2025-26, the Lions opened at just +1800 to win Super Bowl 61. Evidently, a certain segment of the betting public thinks Dan Campbell’s team was being undervalued and overlooked. The Lions are getting 4.4% of Super Bowl 61 handle and 4.6% of wagers in the early going.

Detroit finished eighth in the NFL in point differential last season (+68) and was the only single-digit-win team in the top ten.

The Lions played the third-toughest schedule in the NFL last year after finishing first in the NFC North in 2024. Their third-place finish in 2025 ensure at least a slightly easier road in 2026, though the North still projects as one of the toughest divisions in football, potentially trailing only the NFC West, which contains the top-two favorites in the Super Bowl odds and the 11-win San Francisco 49ers.

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