There’s a new team being touted as the favorite to win the Super Bowl at the end of the season where ESPN’s Football Power Index is concerned.
Given the results from Week 5’s slate of games – although the Green Bay Packers and Las Vegas Raiders are still to play – The Worldwide Leader in Sports’ computer has made another pick for Super Bowl 58 supremacy: the unbeaten San Francisco 49ers.
While the Philadelphia Eagles are also unbeaten and are coming off of a Super Bowl appearance, they don’t appear to be as convincing as Kyle Shanahan’s side, who made easy work of the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night.
The FPI has the Niners as the overwhelming faves with a 30.8 percent chance of ending the 2023/24 NFL season as champions.
The Buffalo Bills, the next best team, are thought to be half as likely at 15.4 percent, while the Kansas City Cheifs are right behind at 15.1 percent.
ESPN’s Football Power Index is just figuring out what Jerry Jones has known for a while.
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“They [San Francisco] are, right now, probably the most likely team to go win the Super Bowl,” the Cowboys owner said last week, “but in order for them to get there, they have to go by us, hopefully two times if that’s the way it falls in the playoffs and we’re in the playoffs, of course.”
