Super Bowl 54 Prop Bets: Which team will score 10 points first?

Super Bowl 54 is here and BetMGM Sportsbook has plenty of Super Bowl prop bets for your consideration. Among them is: Which team – San Francisco 49ers or Kansas City Chiefs – will score 10 points first in the 2020 Super Bowl?

The race to hit 10 points is a difficult one for a couple of big reasons – both involving Kansas City.

The gang at BetMGM Sportsbook has San Francisco as a very solid -106 to be the first team to score 10 points, with the Chiefs at -110. There is a reason.

In both of their postseason games, the Chiefs fell behind big early – 14-0 in less than five minutes to the Houston Texans and 10-0 to the Tennessee Titans in slightly more than nine minutes.

Those were both a deep departure from how the Chiefs played in 2019.

The last time during the regular season that Kansas City didn’t win the race to 10 points was in late October against the Green Bay Packers when Chiefs QB Matt Moore was the starting quarterback – a span of eight games. The last time a Patrick Mahomes-led offense took the field and didn’t win the race to 10 was in late September – ironically to the Detroit Lions – which is the span of 11 games.

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Do you go with the recent or the time-honored?

What may be the tie-breaker is that we can likely feel safe in the fact that San Francisco is going to get the ball first.

In their two playoff games, the Chiefs (as would be expected with coin flips) won one and lost one. They lost the flip against Houston and the Texans opted to take the ball and scored a touchdown on a 54-yard passing play. Against Tennessee, the Chiefs won the toss and deferred. Tennessee marched the ball down the field before stalling and scored a field goal.

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This bet reeks of opportunity. If the 49ers win the toss, they’re going to take the ball and try to make Mahomes wait even longer than he has to for the elongated pregame show. You never hand the ball to a high-octane offense with a full tank. You grind their defense for 12 plays and seven minutes and come away with points.

If Kansas City wins, chances are they will defer with the idea that the Niners will run twice and put Jimmy Garoppolo in a 3^rd-and-something situation – potentially getting the ball back quickly and having the advantage of an opening second-half drive after a 45-minute preparatory halftime.

Either way, the 49ers are likely to have the ball first and will have one more opportunity to score twice before the Chiefs until one of them does.

Take San Francisco (-106).

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