This Trend for No. 1 Seeds Is Great Sign for Packers, Titans in NFL Playoffs
By Peter Dewey
The Green Bay Packers and Tennessee Titans locked up the No. 1 seed in their respective conferences and have a bye in the wild card round of the NFL playoffs.
While both teams still need to win three games in order to be crowned Super Bowl champions, there is a huge advantage to being the top seed in the conference.
Other than the bye week, the Packers and Titans will both have home field advantage until the Super Bowl and will face the lowest remaining seed in their conference in the divisional round.
Dating back to 1975, the No. 1 seed in either the AFC or NFC has gone on to win the Super Bowl in 25 of the 46 games. Here’s the full breakdown for the Super Bowl winner based on the seed that they receive in the playoffs.
Super Bowl Winning Percentage by Seed (Since 1975)
- No. 1 Seeds: 54.4 percent
- No. 2 Seeds: 21.7 percent
- No. 3 Seeds: 4.4 percent
- No 4 Seeds: 10.9 percent
- No. 5 Seeds: 4.4 percent
- No. 6 Seeds: 4.4 percent
- No. 7 Seeds: 0 percent
Since the NFL expanded to a 14-team playoff in 2020, it has become an even bigger advantage to earn the one seed as now only one playoff team in each conference receives a bye instead of two.
The Packers and Titans will still need to knock off some formidable opponents in order to find themselves in Super Bowl 56, but the numbers tell us that one of these two teams have a greater than 50 percent chance of coming away with the title.
WynnBET Sportsbook’s latest Super Bowl odds have the Packers as the favorite at +375 while the Titans are fourth at +800.