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At the start of September, 32 NFL teams and their respective fan bases had a dream: To play in and win Super Bowl LIV. Fast forward to Sunday, Feb. 2, and it’s down to the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers duking it out to be the 2020 Super Bowl Champion.
One team will be hoisting the Lombardi Trophy as Super Bowl LIV Champions. The other will begin planning for next season.
Over the past two weeks, we’ve covered Super Bowl LIV odds, lines, spreads and many, many prop bets. Now we get to the fun part: SportsbookWire’s staff predicting who will win the 2020 Super Bowl.
Super Bowl 54 Picks and Predictions
Esten McLaren predicts the 49ers will beat the Chiefs 32-29 to win this season’s championship.
Sticking with the 49ers’ theme, Cameron DaSilva is also all about San Francisco, predicting a super-tight game with the 49ers beating the Chiefs by just one point, 28-27.
Pete Fiutak, from CollegeFootballNews.com, has the 49ers as 30-23 victors, the largest margin among the 49ers’ predicted wins.
Starting to see a trend? Geoff Clark is also on the 49ers’ side of the battle, projecting a 37-34 victory over Kansas City to capture the Lombardi Trophy.
Jess Root is on the other side of the fence, but he’s not thinking it’ll be a wide-open game any more than most of SportsbookWire’s scribes. Root has the Chiefs beating the 49ers 34-31.
Sticking with the Chiefs’ winning theme – and a quickly divided group of SportsbookWire analysts – Brian Rudd has a lower-scoring game overall, but he also likes the Chiefs to win 27-24.
Johnny Parlay is also siding with Kansas City to win. Unlike other SBW writers, Parlay is expecting a rather sound victory, putting the Chiefs as 10-point victors over the 49ers, 38-28.
Our Ryan R. Bonini has gone back-and-forth all week, finally settling in on a 31-27 victory for San Francisco over Kansas City.
For those keeping track at home, we have five votes for the 49ers and three for the Chiefs.
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2020 Super Bowl MVP Picks & Predictions
On the 49ers’ side of the equation, our staff is all over the place. That just goes to show you how wide-open this year’s Super Bowl actually is – there isn’t a true favorite.
McLaren has a feeling it’s going to the defensive side, naming 49ers CB Richard Sherman as the game’s MVP. The same goes for DaSilva, but he’s expecting that 49ers defender to be edge-rusher Nick Bosa. Clark, on the 49ers, likes quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo to be the MVP, as does Fiutak. Bonini is going back to the running game, which has led the 49ers much of the year, choosing the unheralded Raheem Mostert as his MVP.
Root is on board with Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes as Super Bowl LIV MVP; Parlay is in the same boat, expecting the third-year quarterback to be the standout player. Rudd, on the Chiefs’ side of the championship, took a different route, naming wide receiver Tyreek Hill as his projected MVP.
Tune into FOX at 6:30 p.m. ET when Super Bowl LIV begins to catch all of the action. In the meantime, if you’re looking to place a sports wager on the big game, head over to BetMGM and bet now!
Also see:
- Super Bowl LIV Betting Guide
- Chiefs-49ers Odds: Kansas City a slight favorite over San Francisco
- 2020 Super Bowl viewing guide: What time does the Super Bowl start?
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