4 of the 12 playoff teams get a bye and only 8 are left when bye teams play their first game. If a bye offered no advantage, you’d expect about half of all Super Bowl teams to have had byes.
Since 1990 every Super Bowl has featured at least one bye team, and 16 of the 28 have had two teams who skipped the first round.
Bye teams haven’t fared well once reaching the Super Bowl, going just 4-8 in the 12 games where they played a non-bye opponent.
Teams that make the Super Bowl without a bye have averaged 10.83 wins and only twice has a nine-win team made the Super Bowl.
Few teams make the playoffs with losing ATS records and those that do struggle once there. Since 1990, just five teams have ever made the Super Bowl with a sub-.500 ATS regular season record and only one, the 2012 Baltimore Ravens, have ever won it.
36 percent of playoff teams and 30 percent of Super Bowl teams have played to the Under more than half the time in the regular season.
Since 1990 every Super Bowl has featured at least one bye team, and 16 of the 28 have had two teams who skipped the first round.
Bye teams haven’t fared well once reaching the Super Bowl, going just 4-8 in the 12 games where they played a non-bye opponent.
Teams that make the Super Bowl without a bye have averaged 10.83 wins and only twice has a nine-win team made the Super Bowl.
Few teams make the playoffs with losing ATS records and those that do struggle once there. Since 1990, just five teams have ever made the Super Bowl with a sub-.500 ATS regular season record and only one, the 2012 Baltimore Ravens, have ever won it.
36 percent of playoff teams and 30 percent of Super Bowl teams have played to the Under more than half the time in the regular season.
