Ranking every Super Bowl champion team from 1-60 - ESPN

The Seattle Seahawks defeated the New England Patriots 29-13 in Super Bowl LX! There have now been 60 Super Bowls since the NFL champion first took on the AFL champion after the 1966 season, which means we have 60 teams in this exclusive club. How do the 2025 Seahawks stack up?

Some of these teams were dominant from start to finish. Other teams slipped into the playoffs after a mediocre regular season then went on a shocking postseason run to a title. We've done our best to rank all 60 Super Bowl champions here from worst to best, looking at both the regular season and the playoffs to find the most powerful teams in NFL history.

To rank these teams, I used my proprietary DVOA ratings (explained further here) that look at efficiency on a play-by-play basis adjusted for situation and opponent. For teams prior to the start of DVOA in 1978, I estimated DVOA ratings based on Pro Football Reference's Simple Rating System plus the average margin of victory during the postseason. There's also an adjustment for the first four Super Bowl champions to reflect that the NFL was stronger than the AFL before the merger.

Let's start with a team from the 1970s.

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2025 Seahawks | 2024 Eagles | 2023 Chiefs
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This was the first season after the merger, and the NFC was still far superior to the AFC. According to Pro Football Reference, the Colts had the second-easiest schedule of the 1970 season. Despite that schedule, they outscored opponents by just 6.2 points per game and finished the regular season 14th in PFR's Simple Rating System. Johnny Unitas, in his final season as the starter, threw more interceptions (18) than touchdown passes (10).

In the playoffs, the Colts shut out