If you are looking for the most Super Bowl LI betting options on the planet, look no further than 5Dimes, which is one of just five online betting sites listed on Sportsbook Review with an A-plus grade. Here’s a 5Dimes review with some of its Super Bowl odds available — and more posted daily up to the big game in Houston on Feb. 5 between the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons.
Actually, let’s start with the night before the Super Bowl. That’s when the NFL announces its major awards for the 2016 regular season, led by league MVP. Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan topped the NFL with a 117.7 rating and set franchise records with 4,944 yards and 38 touchdowns. He is expected to win his first NFL MVP award, and 5Dimes is so confident in that fact that you either bet Ryan at -1200 or the field at +600. Ryan beat out Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for first-team All-Pro honors and those are the same voters who decide MVP, so it’s hard to see how Brady wins that.
Quarterbacks usually win the regular-season MVP award and more often than not also the Super Bowl MVP award as they have taken it 27 times overall and five of the past seven years. Because the Patriots are favored in the game, Brady is the -115 favorite to win his record fourth Super Bowl MVP. Ryan is next at +180 and then there’s a large drop-off to Falcons No. 1 receiver Julio Jones (+180) and Patriots top receiver Julian Edelman (+1500).
No tight end has ever won the award, and New England’s Martellus Bennett — remember, Rob Gronkowski is out injured — is priced at +6600. No kicker has won MVP, either, and Atlanta’s Matt Bryant and New England’s Stephen Gostkowski are both +17500. The betting long shots at +30000 are Falcons rookie safety Keanu Neal and Patriots cornerback Logan Ryan. The last defensive back to win MVP was Tampa Bay’s Dexter Jackson in XXXVII.
No Super Bowl has gone to overtime, although you can bet on that proposition at 5Dimes. The closest margin of victory was in Super Bowl XXV on Jan. 27, 1991, in Tampa when the New York Giants upset the Buffalo Bills 20-19 after Bills kicker Scott Norwood infamously missed a last-second field goal. A Patriots win by exactly one point is +2400 and a Falcons win by the same margin is +3300. The favored exact margin of victory for both teams is three points: Patriots at +650 and Falcons +850.
You can actually wager either team to win by as many as 42 points. With how lopsided these playoffs have been, that would be a major downer. The Super Bowl record for margin of victory is 45 points when the 49ers beat the Broncos 55-10 in XXIV. That was Joe Montana’s fourth and final Super Bowl win — Brady is looking to become the first QB with five rings on Feb. 5.
One great thing on the 5Dimes review is that the site already has regular-season props for 2017. That any team wins more than 13.5 games is -115. The Patriots led the NFL with 14 wins in the 2016 regular season and were the only club with more than 13.5 — the Dallas Cowboys led the NFC with 13 wins.
Will any team lose more than 13.5 games next season? Yes is a -180 favorite. I have just two words regarding that prop: Cleveland Browns. A team going winless in 2017 like the Browns nearly did this past season is +1500.