Every year, we enjoy looking into the crystal ball and projecting the next five Super Bowl matchups and champions. But so much changes in just one year to the point where we can’t help but give ourselves a mulligan on the five-year forecast.
For example, who thought the Chicago Bears would land Caleb Williams a year ago? Who saw the Detroit Lions making the jump in 2023? Who saw once-promising teams like the Philadelphia Eagles and Jacksonville Jaguars quickly unravel last year?
With a new NFL season upon us, we’re going to try this whole five-year projection thing again. So, without further ado, we present our predictions for the next five Super Bowl matchups and winners.
Which teams are bound to win the Super Bowl within the next five years?
Super Bowl 59: Detroit Lions vs. Kansas City Chiefs
We would have gotten this Super Bowl matchup last February if the Lions didn’t blow a 17-point lead over the San Francisco 49ers in the 2023 NFC Championship Game.
Well, better late than never.
The Lions can look at the 2018 Chiefs as inspiration for how to learn from heartbreaking losses. Those Chiefs lost in overtime at home to Tom Brady’s New England Patriots in the AFC title game before beginning a dynastic run of their own.
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Detroit has no flaws on offense. Jared Goff is a top-10 quarterback. The Lions’ o-line might be the best in football. Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery are the league’s best running back tandem — to say nothing of Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jameson Williams, and Sam LaPorta.
Aidan Hutchinson has entered the elite tier of NFL defensive players, and the Lions have a scary-good secondary now with prized rookie Terrion Darnold, ex-Tampa Bay Buccaneers star Carlton Davis, and second-year defensive back Brian Branch leading the way.
The San Francisco 49ers’ core players can’t stay healthy. Something is off with the Philadelphia Eagles. The Dallas Cowboys choke every year. The Lions are better than what the NFC South has to offer.
At this stage, the Lions look like the team to beat in the NFC. This is the year they remove themselves from the list of teams who haven’t reached a Super Bowl and place their hands on the George Halas Trophy for the first time.
Representing the AFC for the fifth time in six years, we introduce you to Patrick Mahomes. Remember them?
No team in NFL history has won three straight Super Bowls. If one team can do it, it’s a team with Mahomes, Travis Kelce, Chris Jones, Andy Reid, and world-famous super-fan Taylor Swift.
Other than the Cincinnati Bengals and Houston Texans, we’re having a tough time buying any of Kansas City’s AFC rivals as legitimate challengers to their throne. But the Bengals’ o-line remains problematic, and the Texans’ lack of big-game experience is a huge disadvantage.
So it’s the team on the rise vs. the dynastic squad that’s been there and done that. Who wins the final Super Bowl championship of the decade? Drumroll, please…
Winner: Detroit Lions
Call Eminem and ask if he’ll perform in the middle of downtown Motor City after Super Bowl 59! The Detroit Lions will be your Super Bowl champions — a sentence we never thought we’d utter in our lifetimes.
The Lions are one of the few teams with the pieces to go toe-to-toe with Kansas City. They have the o-line to contain Chris Jones and the powerful rushing attack to wear down the Chiefs’ defense — and missing L’Jarius Sneed this time around will cause issues for Kansas City in the secondary.
Detroit’s defense will make just enough plays to prevent Mahomes from taking over in the fourth quarter like he did in KC’s three Super Bowl victories. They follow the playbook of Bengals DC Lou Anarumo by mostly rushing three and sending eight in coverage to prevent the first-ever Super Bowl three-peat.
Prediction: Lions 31, Chiefs 23
Super Bowl 60: Houston Texans vs. San Francisco 49ers
The Texans, Lions, Cleveland Browns, and Jacksonville Jaguars are the only four NFL teams who have yet to play in a Super Bowl. If our calculations are correct, that list will be reduced to two teams within the next two seasons.
I’m not sure if you’ll consider this a hot take, but we think that after Kansas City, the Texans are the team that’s best set up for long-term success in the NFL. CJ Stroud, Nico Collins, and Tank Dell are as good of a young offensive trio as it gets, and edge rusher Will Anderson Jr. and cornerback Derek Stingley are just hitting their primes now.
Not sure if other veterans like Joe Mixon and Stefon Diggs will be here in two seasons, but the Texans’ young nucleus of Stroud, Collins, Stingley, and Anderson is more than enough to help them break through.
And then you have the 49ers, who needn’t much of an introduction. They’ve played in four NFC Championships and two Super Bowls — both losses to the Chiefs — over the last five years.
It’s funny to think that the 49ers are a few bounces away of their own from potentially being the modern NFL dynasty instead of Kansas City. We needn’t remind you of all the star power on this roster.
But by the 2025 season, Christian McCaffrey, George Kittle, and Trent Williams will likely be close to the end of their primes. This will also be the final year of Brock Purdy’s rookie deal before he’s paid nine figures on his next deal, so this might be the last hurrah for the current core.
So, how does it all play out? The winner is…
Winner: San Francisco 49ers
A Texans-49ers Super Bowl matchup would be a coin flip. If the two teams played each other 10 times in a season, it would be 6-4 or 5-5. That’s how evenly matched they are.
But we just can’t help but feel like Kyle Shanahan’s group will break through eventually. Label the 49ers as chokers all you want, but John Elway had to lose three Super Bowls before winning back-to-back to close out his career.
The 49ers have Williams and a stout o-line to contain Anderson Jr., and the Nick Bosa and Fred Warner-led defense should be able to penetrate the Texans’ shaky offensive line and keep Stroud off his game.
Finally, after almost a decade of gut-wrenching losses in the Kyle Shanahan era, the 49ers broke through with the franchise’s long-awaited sixth Super Bowl title.
Prediction: 49ers 26, Texans 23
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Super Bowl 61: Green Bay Packers vs. Kansas City Chiefs
A rematch of Super Bowl 1 —- 60 years later. And come on, do you really think the Chiefs will somehow fail to reach the Super Bowl two years in a row? Neither do we.
We were close to getting this Super Bowl matchup in 2019 and 2020, but Aaron Rodgers’ Packers lost in both NFC Championship Games while Patrick Mahomes’ Chiefs cruised their way to the big game both years.
Of course, key cogs from those Packers teams like Rodgers, Davante Adams, and Aaron Jones are long gone. This is now Jordan Love’s team, and you’ll recall that this man led the Packers to a stunning upset over Mahomes’ Chiefs at Lambeau Field in Week 13 a year ago.
The Packers’ Super Bowl window feels wide-open with Love and a mostly young offensive nucleus led by Christian Watson, Romeo Doubs, Dontayvion Wicks, Luke Musgrave, Josh Jacobs, and Jayden Reed — to say nothing of the Rashan Gary-Quay Walker-Xavier McKinney and Lukas Van Ness-led defense.
Does Mahomes match Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw’s ring total of four, or does Love follow the footsteps of other great Packer QBS in Bart Starr, Brett Fave, and Aaron Rodgers by delivering the Lombardi Trophy to Titletown?
Winner: Kansas City Chiefs
Make no mistake; we think the Packers are poised to win at least one championship in the Jordan Love era. But it’s just too hard to bet against the best team in football with the best quarterback and head coach in football.
By this time, Mahomes, Rashee Rice, and Xavier Worthy will be the best offensive trio in football — even if Travis Kelce is retired. And Chiefs DC Steve Spagnuolo has proven time and time again that he just knows when to make his “checkmate” moves when it matters most.
The Packers come close in their first Super Bowl appearance with Love, but the Chiefs make it four championships in eight years to further cement their dynastic run.
The wait was longer than expected, but Patrick Mahomes got that fourth ring and pushed himself closer to Tom Brady’s seven-ring territory. And his case of becoming the NFL GOAT grows even stronger.
Prediction: Chiefs 34, Packers 30
Super Bowl 62: Baltimore Ravens vs. Detroit Lions
Ravens quarterback and two-time league MVP Lama Jackson has only reached the AFC Championship Game once in his career. But he, too feels like a QB who’s bound to win it all eventually — the only question being “when.”
The AFC is loaded with other Super Bowl contenders. What we see here is the Ravens reforming their offense to a more pass-happy unit to keep Jackson upright and healthier since he’ll be 31 years of age come to Super Bowl 52.
Baltimore will still have other core pieces like Mark Andrews, Zay Flowers, Tyler Linderbaum, Kyle Hamilton, and Nnamdi Madubuike. This team will break through at some point in the next five years, and our calculations tell us by the 2027 season.
And the Lions, by then, will have already cemented themselves as the squad that’s “been there, done that.” Our projected Super Bowl 59 champions will try to get closer to dynasty status by making it two championships in four seasons.
The Super Bowl has mostly avoided the hands of the greatest rushing QBs of all time — mostly Randall Cunningham, Michael Vick, and Cam Newton. Does Jackson break the trend, or is Motor City celebrating a second Super Bowl?
Winner: Baltimore Ravens
We don’t want to proclaim the 2027 Ravens as a team of destiny. But we can say they’ll be ultra-motivated to win it all for their franchise quarterback while he’s still in his prime — and with head coach John Harbaugh potentially nearing the end of his Hall of Fame career.
Like we said, we’re guessing the Ravens will be a more pass-happy team by this time to keep Jackson’s body healthy and upright. Their defense is a consistent top-10 unit and should have the pieces in place to keep Detroit’s high-powered offense at bay.
And speaking of Hall of Fame careers…Justin Tucker adds to his Canton resume by kicking the game-winning field goal as time expires.
Prediction: Ravens 23, Lions 20
Super Bowl 63: Houston Texans vs. Chicago Bears
Alrighty! So CJ Stroud’s Texans get back to the big game following a heartbreaking loss to the 49ers in Super Bowl 60.
Houston’s core from the Super Bowl 60 finalists will mostly be intact, but GM Nick Caserio will have surely added more game-changing players to accommodate Stroud, Collins, Stingley, Anderson et al by then.
Their opponent, this time, is the Caleb Williams-led Chicago Bears. By this time, Williams will have asserted himself as a top-five quarterback — and wide receiver Rome Odunze will have reached superstar status.
DJ Moore should still have plenty of gas left in the tank, as well. On the other side of the ball, the Jaylon Johnson-Tyrique Stevenson-Jaquon Brisker-Montez Sweat core will power the Chicago defense to its first Super Bowl appearance since the 2006 season.
Stroud and Williams have future NFL MVPs and Super Bowl champions written all over their respective names. But there’s only room for one winner, so who will take home Super Bowl 63?
Winner: Houston Texans
Experience is almost always a deciding factor in the Super Bowl. If our calculations are correct, this will be Houston’s second Super Bowl appearance with Stroud and the Bears’ first with Williams.
A lot can change between now and Super Bowl 63, but we like the long-term outlook on Houston’s defense a little more than Chicago’s. Stingley and Anderson could very well be football’s best corner and pass-rusher, respectively, at this point.
Stingley will be one of the few corners that can lock down Odunze, and Anderson is the game-changing force that will help Houston close it out with a heart-pounding thriller.
For the first time in history, the NFL’s youngest franchise is your Super Bowl champion. A career-defining performance from Stroud and a multi-sack outing by Anderson will finish the job.
Prediction: Texans 27, Bears 21
