Betting the over is perhaps the most popular wager across all sports. Rather than root for an individual side, all you have to do is just sit back and root for points. And often, tons of points mean a back-and-forth, thrilling affair.
If you don’t have a rooting interest, all you can ask for is good old-fashioned fun in the final football game until August (no offense to the USFL, AFL, XFL and any other fledgling leagues ending in FL).
The good news is the Super Bowl 57 matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles has the makings to be exactly the game we’re yearning for. Oddsmakers and early bettors seem to agree too. The sportsbooks opened the Super Bowl total at 49.5 points, which has since been bet up to 50.5 points as of Feb. 2.
It’s clear we’ve have the makings of an over brewing. So how do we get there? Below, I present the case to a points-palooza: