Lowest seed to win a Super Bowl in NFL history 

The NFL Playoffs kickoff this weekend, and this might be one of the biggest toss ups postseasons in recent NFL history. There are one seeds in both the NFC and AFC that came out of nowhere, and there are Wild Cards that are looking like they could make a run at the Lomardi Trophy.

New kids on the block

The Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos are the top seeds in the NFC and the AFC heading into the postseason. That means they will have first round BYEs and home field advantage throughout the playoffs until the Super Bowl. Neither of those teams were in the playoffs last year, and this year they are not only in the playoffs but they won their respective conferences.

The two seeds in both the AFC and the NFC missed the playoffs last year as well. Both teams have 2nd year quarterbacks and both teams had terrible seasons in which they finished at the bottom of their divisions. The New England Patriots were 4-13 and the Chicago Bears went 5-12, but both teams brought in new coaches and are now in fantastic position to make a run to the Super Bowl.

While there is plenty of promise for these top teams in their respective conferences, there is a lot of firepower hanging around the the Wild Card spots. The Buffalo Bills have been in the Super Bowl conversation for the last half decade, and finally Josh Allen won’t have to see Patrick Mahomes or Lamar Jackson in the playoffs. The LA Rams and San Francisco 49ers have both been in the Super Bowl over the last few years and the Rams won it all in 2022.

Steelers, Packers six seed SB winners

This has been a season in which a lot of experts, media personalties and ex-players alike think there is no one true favorite to win it all. That certainly opens the door for some of the Wild Card teams that have a lot of experience in the playoffs against teams that are fairly unfamiliar January football.

The number of teams in the playoffs has varied over the years. In 1990 the NFL expanded to 12 teams, and in 2020 it expanded to 14. There have been two six seeds to win the Super Bowl, both of those came before the 2020 expansion to 14 teams. The first team to do so was the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2005 when they beat the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XL. The Packers did the same thing in 2010 when Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLV.

Since 2020 we have had seven seeds in the playoffs, but no team has been able to lift the Lomardi Trophy as the final seed in the AFC or NFC. This season we have the Green Bay Packers and the Los Angeles Chargers as the seven seeds in each conference and they will be looking to make history as the first seven seed Super Bowl winners.

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