New England Patriots, Super Bowl favorites? Not quite, but they’re close.
After the Patriots dispatched the Tennessee Titans 36-13 on Sunday to earn their sixth consecutive win and improve to 8-4 on the season, FiveThirtyEight’s NFL playoff predictor model now gives them a 10% chance to win Super Bowl LVI.
Those might not sound like especially high odds, but they’re the fourth-best of any NFL team through 12 weeks. Per FiveThirtyEight, only the Green Bay Packers (17%), Arizona Cardinals (14%) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (12%) have a better chance of hoisting the Lombardi Trophy in February.