2020 Super Bowl 49ers vs. Chiefs: Past 10 Super Bowl winners have scored last

For Sunday's Super Bowl LIV in Miami between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs, the Chiefs are -122 on the PointsBet NFL odds to be the team to score last in the game and the 49ers -109. In a rather stunning statistic, the team that has scored last has won the past 10 Super Bowls. Kickoff is 6:40 p.m. ET from Hard Rock Stadium.

For what it's worth, the 49ers are 2-0 all-time in playoff games in Miami; because the Niners are in the NFC and the Dolphins in the AFC, obviously the only way San Francisco would play in south Florida in the postseason would be the Super Bowl. San Francisco won XXIX in the 1994 season there (beat Chargers 49-26) and XXIII in the 1988 season (beat Bengals 20-16). Kansas City is 0-2 in playoff games in Miami, losing to the Dolphins in the 1994 and 1990 Wild-Card Games.

It might seem obvious that the team scoring last wins the game, but for example there has been just one overtime in SB history and that's the only time the team scoring last is guaranteed to win. It's a bit strange that some SB loser in the past 10 years hasn't scored late in garbage time, etc. Last year, the Rams lost to the Patriots 13-3 and Los Angeles nearly did score last. Normally reliable kicker Greg Zuerlein missed a 48-yard field goal with five seconds left.

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At PointsBet, the team that scores last also wins the game is -250 with no at +180 on that Super Bowl LIV prop. The favored last scoring play is 49ers touchdown at +170 followed by Chiefs touchdown at +175.

On the flip side, the team that scores first has won eight of the past 10 Super Bowls – the Patriots were the first to score a year ago. That the first team scoring wins Super Bowl LIV is yes-only at -196 at PointsBet. A Kansas City touchdown is the favored first scoring play at +185.