2025 NFL betting wrapped: The teams on repeat, the bad beats and the perfect mix for 2026 - ESPN

Is there anything more disappointing than seeing that one pop song that completely infiltrated your music recaps of 2025?

If you regularly bet on the NFL, it's probably seeing how much you lost on the Lions.

The thrilling 2025 NFL regular season featured plenty of unexpected results, and bettors weren't spared. Of the seven teams that entered the campaign with +2000 odds or shorter to win the Super Bowl, only three made the playoffs. None got to the conference championship round.

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Favorites won 65.9% of their games outright and covered the spread 47.8% of the time this season, a far cry from 2024 when favorites were a historic 71.7% straight up and 53.3% against the spread. Though underdogs winning generally favors sportsbooks, bettors continued to put down big money in 2025, with DraftKings Sportsbook director Johnny Avello calling its NFL handle «off-the-charts great.»

Ahead of Super Bowl LX where the Patriots and Seahawks will face off in Santa Clara, California, in the biggest sports betting event of the year, it's time for a look at the season behind us and how we got here, with two teams whose preseason odds were +6000 to make it to the Super Bowl.

Sports betting writer Doug Greenberg wraps up the season with a deep dive into the teams, players and games that made the 2025 NFL betting season (complete with some fun graphics), and NFL analyst Ben Solak puts some deep cuts on your radar for 2026 based on the bets you loved to make in 2025.

Let's press play, starting with the most-bet teams of 2025.

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