Has a Super Bowl ever been a blowout? (2023)

When was the last blowout Super Bowl?

That distinction goes to Super Bowl XXIV, when the San Francisco 49ers beat the snot out of, well, the Denver Broncos in the Superdome in New Orleans. That Denver squad -- led at quarterback by current Broncos executive John Elway -- fell to Joe Montana's team by a staggering 45 points, in a final score of 55 to 10.

The San Francisco 49ers have the highest point differential by a team in a Super Bowl, with a 45-point differential in Super Bowl XXIV against the Broncos on January 28, 1990.

As per Pro Football Reference, 73 games in pro football history have ended in a 0-0 tie. However, the last time that took place was almost 80 years ago, meaning there's been no scoreless ties in the Super Bowl era.

San Francisco 49ers 55 - 10 win over Denver Broncos during Super Bowl XXIV on January 28, 1990.

Lowest-Scoring Game in NFL History

Similarly, five NFL games in history have finished with a score of 2-0. Again, this has not happened post-merger, with the last such game coming in 1938 between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers. The lowest NFL score in the post-merger history is 3-0.

Who is the worst team to make the Super Bowl? Based on regular season winning percentage, the 2011 New York Giants (9-7), 2008 Arizona Cardinals (9-7) and 1979 Los Angeles Rams (9-7) were the worst teams to make the Super Bowl.

Yes, this has happened 5 times in history. The 1998 St. Louis Rams (4-12), 2000 New England Patriots (5-11), 1980 San Francisco 49ers (6-10), 2019 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (7-9) and 2016 Philadelphia Eagles (7-9) all won the Super Bowl the next season after having a losing record.

What was the closest score in a Super Bowl game?

On Jan. 27, 1991, The New York Giants won when Buffalo Bills kicker Scott Norwood missed a field goal in the final seconds of the game. It was the second Super Bowl victory for the Giants and the only Super Bowl so far to be decided by one point.

There have been 18 underdogs to win straight up in Super Bowl history. It just means that, in terms of Super Bowl history, if you like the Bengals it might be best to take them on the moneyline at +165 instead of grabbing the 4.5 points.

The lowest possible score is 0-0 and has been achieved 73 times, though the most recent scoreless tie came on Nov. 7, 1943. The most points any team has scored in an NFL game is 73.

101 points: Raiders 52, Oilers 49 (Dec.

This was the first game to total over 100 points. This game had a modern feel despite it happening nearly 60 years ago, with 11 combined passing touchdowns and just two combined rushing scores.

101 points (Oakland Raiders vs.

Played on December 22, 1963, the game took place in the American Football League (AFL), but it was absorbed into official NFL records after the NFL–AFL merger. The Oakland Raiders defeated the Houston Oilers 52–49, combining for a total of 101 points.

game actually end, say, 23-1? It is one of the oddities of American football that a team can score 2, 3, 4, 5 or even 222 points in a game, but never 1.

In American football, if a team attempting an extra point or two-point conversion (officially known in the rulebooks as a try) scores what would normally be a safety, that attempting team is awarded one point. This is commonly known as a conversion safety or one-point safety.

There have been a total of four teams, 1999 Titans, 2000 Ravens, 2007 Giants and the 2008 Cardinals that have reached the Super Bowl following an 8-8 season and two of those teams, the Ravens and Giants have won the Super Bowl.

The Comeback or The Choke was an NFL playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and the Houston Oilers played on January 3, 1993 at Rich Stadium in Orchard Park, New York. It featured the Bills recovering from a 32-point deficit to win in overtime, 41–38. To the present day, it remains the largest comeback in NFL history.

Chicken wings are the food of choice. According to the National Chicken Council — yes, there is a National Chicken Council — Americans consume more than 100 million pounds of chicken wings on Super Bowl Sunday alone.

What is the most popular Super Bowl dish?

If there are no chicken wings, is it even really a Super Bowl party? According to the survey, 36% of Americans must have wings! Our love for chicken wings is so great, the National Chicken Council reports each year, we eat a record-breaking 1.4 billion wings on Super Bowl Sunday.

There have been 73 games in pro football history that ended in a 0-0 tie, according to Pro Football Reference. But it's been nearly 80 years since the last one, meaning there's yet to be a scoreless tie in the Super Bowl era.

There have also been five 2-0 games in NFL history where just a safety was scored. The lowest-scoring game in this millennium ended 3-0. It is one of 59 such games in NFL history, but going in, oddsmakers had no idea that so few points would be put on the board.

Since 1944, only five teams have had winless seasons in the NFL: the 1960 Dallas Cowboys (0–11–1), the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0–14), the 1982 Baltimore Colts (0–8–1) the 2008 Detroit Lions (0–16), and the 2017 Cleveland Browns (0–16).

573), with an 818–606–38 record (1,462 games played) through the end of Super Bowl LVI. The Cardinals have recorded the most losses (780), and the Buccaneers hold the lowest winning percentage (. 401), with a 294–439–1 record through the end of Super Bowl LV, a game which they won.