Super Bowl 53 betting results: What were the best payouts?

Color of Gatorade: Blue +325

For some reason, going into this game clear Gatorade was the favorite to be the color splashed on the winning coach. Clear? Like water? Not only is that boring, but it seems like a bad bet. It worked out that way.

The Patriots are predominantly blue, and if you look at their past, during this most recent run they either use no Gatorade or blue Gatorade to splash on Bill Belichick. The last time Belichick took a bath was in Super Bowl XLVIX when the Pats beat the Seattle Seahawks. Guess which color that Gatorade was that night? That’s right, blue.

Basically, if you thought the Patriots were going to win, blue was the color to choose. It was given the fourth best odds, thanks to no other team outside the Patriots using blue Gatorade at the end of the game. However, if you thought the Patriots were going to win, you could have won big money on blue.

Largest Lead Of The Game 14 1/2: Under +110

This was one that we wanted to hit hard prior to the game. It just didn’t seem like either team would ever take a large lead in this game, and boy were we right. In fact, we thought this would be a much higher scoring game, but still never thought the lead would break two touchdowns.

No, this wasn’t the great odds that some other winning bets turned out to be, but this still ended up positive. This game didn’t end up having a total of 15 points between the teams until late in the fourth quarter. To call this a low-scoring game would be an insult to 1960s football.

Many of our bets may have gone haywire, but this is one we hit square in the face. This game was a back-and-forth affair. It just wasn’t in the traditional sense. Instead of Tom Brady and Jarrod Goff going shot for shot, it was Aaron Donald and Dont’a Hightower or Aqib Talib and Stephon Gilmore. Either way, those who made this bet came out with cash in their pockets.