2024 Super Bowl Picks, Odds: Lookahead Lines To Bet

2024 Super Bowl Picks, Odds: Lookahead Lines To Bet

FanDuel already has odds for Feb. 11, and our staff has Super Bowl picks for all four potential matchups on Feb. 11 in Las Vegas, and a couple numbers stood out to our experts. One of them is on the potential Ravens-49ers total, while another is betting Baltimore against the Lions.

Check out our expert breakdowns and Super Bowl lookahead picks below.

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By Anthony Dabbundo

These teams met on Christmas and the total closed 47.5 in Santa Clara. For all of the talk about how great the Ravens defense played in that game — they intercepted Brock Purdy four times — the 49ers were still able to easily move the ball on a play-to-play basis and had a high success rate. San Francisco managed 21 first downs, averaged 6.3 yards per play and gained 429 total yards in defeat.

Credit to Ravens defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald for forcing all of those mistakes from Purdy — and even an interception from Sam Darnold — but it’s also important to keep in mind how much San Francisco could have scored given that it also turned it over three times inside Baltimore's 40-yard line.

Baltimore should have star tight end Mark Andrews back as an added dimension to its offense, which can absolutely move the ball against the 49ers. San Francisco’s defense ranks in the bottom five in rush success rate since Week 9, and the 49ers defense is below average in passing EPA allowed, as well.

Of all of the units in this game, the 49ers defense is the most overvalued and it’s driving down this total lower than it should be.

San Francisco’s offense will get to 24 points when healthy and barring flukes, so this total should be at least a full point higher than 47.5 in the solid offensive conditions of Las Vegas.

Pick: Over 47.5 (-110)

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By Brandon Anderson

If the Super Bowl is a Ravens-Lions rematch, I'm probably not going to have to think too long about my pick.

I don't think Lamar Jackson is the deserving NFL MVP or that he played like an MVP for more than a few games all season, but the Week 7 matchup against the Lions was certainly one of them.

The game was over midway through the second quarter. Baltimore scored a touchdown on its first four drives with a trio of Lions three-and-outs in between as Jackson sliced and diced the hapless Detroit defense apart. When Baltimore went up 28-0, the Ravens had run 32 plays for 323 yards while the Lions had gained 13 yards. Jackson finished with 357 yards and three scores in the air plus another one on the ground, basically playing a perfect game.

Of course, Baltimore's real MVP, its defense, was fantastic as well. The Lions had been cruising before Baltimore completely shut them down and made Jared Goff's day miserable. Goff was sacked five times and was intercepted once, and the Lions finished 5-of-16 on third down and 2-of-6 on fourth down. He had absolutely no chance against Mike Macdonald's unpredictable schemes and pressure.

I expect that Ben Johnson and the offense would have a few answers and ideas in a rematch, but Macdonald and the Ravens defense are now too. That matchup tilts in Baltimore's favor, and Todd Monken's Ravens offense should be able to pick apart a Lions defense that hasn't been very good against top offenses.

That Week 7 matchup ended 38-6 in favor of Baltimore. I don't think we'd get that level of blowout again, but I'm quite confident I know which side I'll be on if we do get a Ravens-Lions rematch. I don't see many answers for Goff or the Lions defense, and I'd make the line closer to a touchdown than a field goal, so Ravens -4.5 is an easy lookahead bet for me.

Pick: Ravens -3.5 (-115)