Under Review Show – Super Bowl LIV Prop Bets

By BetOnline January 25, 2020

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The Super Bowl is here, and as always there are hundreds of prop bets to keep you entertained throughout the evening. You can bet on virtually everything once the broadcast gets underway at 6 p.m. ET on February 2, 2020. There are props for the national anthem, props for what we will see and when we will see it during the commercial breaks, and props on the halftime show starring Shakira and Jennifer Lopez too. You’ll find hundreds of player props to wager on as well, and that’s the topic for the Under Review Show this week.

Super Bowl 54 Prop Bet-Stravaganza

There are currently over 600 prop bets available for Super Bowl LIV at BetOnline, and the sportsbook’s head oddsmaker Adam Burns is on this week’s show to discuss them. One of the first things that Burns mentions is the shift in the total for this game. The over/under opened at 51, and it has already risen to 54 with over 90 percent of the money on the over. That’s some of the most lopsided action we have ever seen in the Big Game, and there is a chance that Super Bowl LIV could have the highest over/under in Super Bowl history. Super Bowl LI between New England and Atlanta currently holds that distinction with a total of 57.5 points.

Burns also touches on what BetOnline is rooting for on Super Bowl Sunday, and it’s no surprise the sportsbook is hoping for a San Francisco upset. More than 60 percent of wagers thus far have been on Kansas City, and the Chiefs were a popular play in futures markets.

One of the sillier bets you can make for the Super Bowl is on the coin toss. It’s rather maddening that people bet on something you can’t handicap, but betting on the coin toss is one of the more popular bets to make every year. Burns notes that the coin has landed on tails slightly more often than heads (28 to 25), but heads has always been the favored pick among bettors. There has been more action on heads than tails again in the run-up to Super Bowl LIV, so the sportsbooks are hoping to see tails hit.

Prop bets have become an increasingly popular way to bet the Super Bowl over the years. Burns states that when he started, prop bets were responsible for five percent of the handle, but up to a third of all Super Bowl wagers are now on prop bets. There has also been an explosion in the live betting market, as bettors look to double down on a pick during a commercial break or hedge their bets if they aren’t optimistic about the state of the game.

We will also see an expansion of live betting options in this year’s Super Bowl. BetOnline plans to offer live betting on the Super Bowl MVP with odds updating during the commercial break, and there will also be updated odds on who the Super Bowl MVP will thank first after the game too. Additionally, there are going to be even more Super Bowl props available to wager on next week as storylines emerge.

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