3 simple novelty prop bets for Super Bowl 58: Odds, picks for coin toss, Gatorade color, Scorigami
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Super Bowl 58 features a wealth of big names if you’re seeking Patrick Mahomes, Christian McCaffrey, Travis Kelce and Deebo Samuel player props.
But if you’re instead interested in some basic, just-for-kicks novelty prop bets, you’ve come to the right place.
Below we examine the odds for three of the most popular novelty props — result of the opening coin toss, the color of the Gatorade dumped on the winning coach and the chances of a Big Game Scorigami — and offer some best-bet recommendations for the Kansas City Chiefs-San Francisco 49ers matchup in Super Bowl 58 (6:30 p.m. ET, Sunday on CBS).
Do note, though, that coin toss, Gatorade color and other other novelty props are not offered in all states with legalized sports betting due to local gaming regulations.
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Even though this is a true 50-50 proposition, wagering on the opening coin toss is an enduring popular Big Game prop bet tradition nonetheless.
The top online sportsbooks offer coin toss odds where permitted and most impose stricter stake limits due to the pure randomness of the bet. That’s sound advice for bettors as well to keep coin toss wagers to a bare minimum.
By far the most important factor in betting the toss is finding the truest possible odds — as close to +100 as you can get — as your chances are a dead-even 50 percent.
As of early Super Bowl week,DraftKings and Bet365 Sportsbooks were two sites offering +100 coin toss odds with others at -104 and -105.
And if you do want to ride Big Game coin toss momentum, you’ll be betting “Tails” as that’s how the coin has landed in seven of the last 10 Super Bowl flips.
So, we just took a 5-second pause to flip our own coin, a 2006 quarter, and tails it was — and is for our official coin prop bet recommendation.
Bookending the coin toss, sportsbooks offer — again, where available — prop odds on the color of Gatorade (or beverage) dumped on the winning coach.
But unlike heads or tails, there are varying colors choices and odds favorites.
Purple — the winning color a year ago for Andy Reid and the Chiefs following their 38-35 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in Glendale, Ariz. — is the slight favorite again at BetMGM (+250) and DraftKings (+225).
Meanwhile, Orange tops the FanDuel odds board at +240 while Blue is Bet365′s favorite at +200.
In the last 20 Super Bowls, Orange has been the most frequent color of the celebratory shower with five appearances (25 percent) — including the Chiefs’ Super Bowl 54 win in 2019-20 — followed by Clear/water and Blue (four apiece, 20%).
But for SB58, we’ll go with the primary color for both teams — Red/Pink — and a nice +650 payout at Bet365.
A Scorigami is simply a unique final game score in NFL history.
According to the official NFL Scorigami website, there have been 17,179 games played since the NFL’s inception in 1920, and they have produced 1,804 different score combinations.
There were nine Scorigamis in the 2023 regular season, with the most recent being the Baltimore Ravens’ 56-19 win over the Miami Dolphins in Week 17.
Three of the 1,804 Scorigamis have occurred in the Super Bowl, with the Seattle Seahawks’ 43-8 rout of the Denver Broncos 10 years ago this month serving as the most recent.
Will we see a fourth Super Scorigami this Sunday in Sin City?
Strictly going by this season’s occurrence rate of 3.17 percent (nine in 284 games, including the playoffs), it’s not very likely even though there are still close to 1,400 game final score combos — i.e. 25-18 or 32-26 — that have yet to grace an NFL scoreboard.
Sportsbooks’ Super Bowl 58 Scorigami prop odds reflect as much:
With the true Scorigami odds being much closer to Yes +3000, No -3000, we can’t recommend anything more than a $20 flyer wager on Yes.
If that Scorigami ticket does cash, though, it would truly be a “unique” prop triumph for many.
