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Months of draft rumors, free agent moves, offseason training, preseason games, 17 regular season games, and three round of playoffs has all led to this: Super Bowl 60, with the […]
Months of draft rumors, free agent moves, offseason training, preseason games, 17 regular season games, and three round of playoffs has all led to this: Super Bowl 60, with the Seattle Seahawks looking to avenge their Super Bowl 49 loss to the same opponent, the New England Patriots.
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Read on for my Super Bowl 60 Prediction: New England Patriots vs. Seattle Seahawks.
Super Bowl 53: Predicted the Los Angeles Rams would beat the New England Patriots 36-30 in overtime. Was wrong on the Rams, and the game was ultimately a low-scoring snooze with New England winning 13-3.
Super Bowl 54: Predicted the Kansas City Chiefs would overcome the San Francisco 49ers 37-30, and in reality the Chiefs won 31-20 after a fourth quarter comeback.
Super Bowl 55: Predicted an epic shootout and last-minute game-winning drive from Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs, projecting a 37-36 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The real outcome was much less exciting, with Tom Brady and the Buccaneers prevailing 31-9.
Super Bowl 56: Predicted the Los Angeles Rams would beat the Cincinnati Bengals 27-22, and reality was pretty close, a 23-20 Rams win.
Super Bowl 57: Predicted the Kansas City Chiefs would win 28-21, and in reality, the Chiefs topped Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 in a thriller.
Super Bowl 58: Predicted Kansas City Chiefs 27-24 over San Francisco 49ers, reality was 25-22 in overtime so I got the winner and margin of victory both correct.
Super Bowl 59: Went with the Kansas City Chiefs because how would you pick against them at this point, 29-24. Reality: Philadelphia Eagles win 40-22.
Location: Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, California, home of the San Francisco 49ers
Game Time: 6:30 PM ET / 5:30 PM CT / 4:30 PM MT / 3:30 PM PT
Network: NBC, also streaming on Peacock
Spread: Seattle Seahawks (-4.5)
Over/Under: 45.5
While it’s been 11 years, it’s hard not to think of the last time these two teams met, in Super Bowl 49, with Russell Wilson infamously throwing an interception on the one-yard line with the game on the line instead of handing the ball off to Marshawn Lynch, giving Tom Brady and the New England Patriots a 28-24 victory.
But a lot has changed in 11 years. Brady, now a part-owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, says he “doesn’t have a horse in this race.” Russell Wilson was still being paid by a team that made this year’s Conference Championship game (the Denver Broncos) although he doesn’t play for that team anymore either. This tidbit may seem irrelevant, but it was the very Russell Wilson trade of 2022 that set up the Seattle Seahawks to be where they are today.
That, and signing Sam Darnold, fresh off a red-hot regular season for the Minnesota Vikings in 2024-25. Darnold and the Vikings sputtered in the playoffs last season, but Darnold silenced any doubters by leading the Seahawks to a 14-3 record, the #1 seed in the NFC, and most recently, two playoff wins over very good San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams teams.
The New England Patriots made some flashy offseason upgrades in 2025, namely bringing in former Pro Bowl receiver Stefon Diggs as a weapon for second-year quarterback Drake Maye. Many predicted the Patriots to at least push for an AFC wildcard spot (I was personally hesitant) but few penciled the Patriots in as AFC East champions over the Buffalo Bills, let alone AFC Champions over the rest of the field.
Yet, here the Patriots are, back on the NFL’s biggest stage, just six seasons after Tom Brady left the franchise. You’ll hear it before and you’ll hear it again, but New England was also the beneficiary of an easy schedule: the easiest schedule in the NFL out of all 32 teams. I’ll be the first to point out that every time you win a game, you hand your opponent a loss, so the Patriots actually do have a little to do with their historically weak strength of schedule. So there’s reality to both sides, but the Patriots ultimately did not have to face a gauntlet of playoff teams during the regular season. New England only beat backup quarterback Jarrett Stidham 10-7 in the AFC Championship Game, and needed a blocked field goal and a flukey Stidham turnover to secure that victory.
Flipping the script to a positive fact for the Patriots: if New England wins, the Patriots will finish the season tied for the most wins ever by an NFL team including the playoffs: 18, joining the likes of the 2024 Philadelphia Eagles and the infamous 18-1 New England Patriots.
The Patriots record seems like one of those of things that if they win the game, then of course they did, they always find a way to win, why would that change now? (See Also: the 2024-25 Oklahoma City Thunder, who were virtually unbeatable all season.)
But the Seahawks are also elite, and on top of that, they are much more accustomed to playing tough competition. Five games alone against the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers were tougher than anything the Patriots had to face.
Without slandering New England much, the Seahawks are just a more complete team: offense, defense, and even special teams. The Patriots put up just 16 points against the Chargers and 10 points against the Broncos in these playoffs. Credit to New England’s defense for bringing home these wins, but the Patriots will have to do a lot more on offense to keep up with the Seahawks.
Maye and the Patriots were struggling offensively against the Broncos defense far before the snow started to roll in during last week’s AFC Championship Game.
Honestly, this game is sort of a mismatch on paper. But stranger things have happened, and the game can slow down exponentially and come down to just a few plays no matter which two teams take the field every February.
On paper, a Seahawks win by 10 points or more seems like the most likely scenario to me, more likely than the spread implies and more likely than a Patriots win. But for the reasons I just mentioned, this game will likely be closer than it should be, or even would be if it was played outside of the context of the Super Bowl.
So I’ll go somewhere between my gut (Seahawks 34-20) and my brains (Seahawks 20-17) and split the difference with a prediction of Seahawks 27, Patriots 20. This would have Seattle covering the 4.5 point spread, but watch out, the Patriots could squeak in a couple extra points to make it a three or four point win for the Seahawks.
Sam Darnold and Jaxon Smith-Njigba would both be in the running for Super Bowl 60 MVP honors. Obviously it would be cooler to go to a wide receiver, but if I’m trying to predict correctly, it’s hard not to go with the winning quarterback.
Seahawks win 27-20, Sam Darnold wins Super Bowl 60 MVP
Header Photo Credit: The Boston Globe
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