Picking a divisional winner is a bet best made at the beginning of the season and is a great NFL betting pick for players who want their money to stretch for a possible 17 weeks. A big reason for this is that the best team in each conference gets a bye into the second round of the playoffs and only needs two wins to capture the conference title.
The Philadelphia Eagles may have had the second worst record out of any team in the playoffs, but at +2500 odds to win the NFC, it will have been a wager to tempt some.įavorites have far smaller returns, as the Packers had odds of +380 to win the Superbowl at the start of the playoffs. Not many predicted Cincinnati would make the AFC Championship game preseason, but even if we didn’t choose a conference winner at the beginning of the year, there’s no need to fret as some huge odds can still be found even after the regular season has concluded. Each conference has 16 teams with seven making the playoffs in 2021-22. Choosing the winner of a conference final is therefore statistically easier than picking the Super Bowl winner, but the NFL odds will reflect that. While only one team can win the Super Bowl, the NFL has two conference winners with each of those earning a trip to the season’s final game.
