One major takeaway from the 2025 NFL season is that the days where the established favorites could be counted upon to live up to that billing may be over. The last two teams left standing -- the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots -- were a pair longshots who entered the season with 60-to-1 odds to win the Super Bowl, and the teams they defeated in the Conference Championship round were quarterbacked by an unproven second-year starter that virtually nobody around the long believed in (Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix), and 37-year-old who came into the season with back issues that many feared would potentially keep him out of action (Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford).
One ESPN analyst boldly makes the case for why the Texans will win Super Bowl LXI
