Record-breaking showdowns: Top 10 highest-scoring Super Bowls of all time
The Chiefs - Eagles meeting in the 2023 Championship Game was one of the most thrilling in Super Bowl history but it wasn’t the biggest score.
This year’s Super Bowl features a strangely rare occurrence, a rematch from a recent Championship Game. The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles at Super Bowl LVII two years ago and those two teams meet again this Sunday.
Although Eagles fans will not have fond memories, the 2023 matchup will go down in history as one of the most thrilling in NFL history. Despite a mammoth 374-yard, four-touchdown game from Eagles QB Jalen Hurts, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs came out on top with a dramatic late triumph.
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With just eight seconds remaining a 27-yard field goal from Harrison Butker gave the Chiefs a 38-35 win. That 73-point extravaganza was one the highest-scoring in Super Bowl history, but there are two games that outscored it.
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Back in 1995 the San Francisco 49ers became the first team to win five Super Bowls with an astonishing 49-26 victory over the San Diego Chargers. The 49ers had dominated the 1980s with four Joe Montana-led championships (1981, 1984, 1988, 1989) but his understudy Steve Young stepped up to guide the team to Super Bowl XXIX.
San Francisco had finished the regular season with a 13-3 record and led the league with 505 points scored, averaging more than 31 points per game. In the Championship Game the 49ers scored exactly 14 points in each of the first three quarters. The Chargers held there own though, scoring in each of the four quarters.
Here’s a look at the top ten highest-scoring Super Bowls of all time...
Super Bowl record scorelines
1. Super Bowl XXIX: 49ers 49 - Chargers 26 (75 total points)
2. Super Bowl LII: Eagles 41 - Patriots 33 (74 total points)
3. Super Bowl LVII: Chiefs 38 - Eagles 35 (73 total points)
=4. Super Bowl XXXVII: Buccaneers 48 - Raiders 21 (69 total points)
=4. Super Bowl XXVII: Cowboys 52 - Bills 17 (69 total points)
6. Super Bowl XIII: Steelers 35 - Cowboys 31 (66 total points)
=7. Super Bowl XLVII: Ravens 34 - 49ers 31 (65 total points)
=7. Super Bowl XXIV: 49ers 55 - Broncos 10 (65 total points)
9. Super Bowl LI: Patriots 34 -Falcons 28 (62 total points)
=10. Super Bowl XXXVIII: Patriots 32 - Panthers 29 (61 total points)
=10. Super Bowl XXVI: Washington 37 - Bills 24 (61 total points)
For a single team, the Super Bowl points record is still held by that incredible 49ers team of the 1980s. Joe Montana’s fourth and final champions in San Francisco was a 55-10 blow-out against the Denver Broncos, with the 49ers scoring at least 13 points in each of the four quarters.
That team still hold the Super Bowl records for most points by a single team (55), largest margin of victory (45 points) and the most touchdowns scored by a single team (eight).
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