Rams vs. Bengals Super Bowl 56 coin toss odds: Bettors slightly favoring tails; toss winner has lost seven straight Super Bowls
Even though Super Bowl 56 is held in the Los Angeles Rams' home building of SoFi Stadium, they will be the visiting team against the Cincinnati Bengals simply as it's the AFC team's turn to be home. Thus, that means the Rams will call the opening coin toss. They may want to lose that because the coin toss winner has lost seven straight Super Bowls.
Yes, the coin toss is going to be one of the most-wagered props of the Super Bowl because it always is. As of this writing, the only prop to take more action at Caesars Sportsbook was whether there will be overtime, with no at -1200 taking the biggest single lean of any prop at the book. Of course, there has been just one overtime in Super Bowl history and it took a Patriots rally from down 28-3 late in the third quarter of SB 51 against the Falcons to force OT.
"We've seen a couple overtime games in the playoffs already, so that's fresh in people's memories," said Craig Mucklow, Vice President of Trading at Caesars Sportsbook. "Obviously with yes being such a big price (+750), people will gravitate to that and create liability, which is why those odds have gone down. People just want the lottery ticket payout. Usually it's coin toss and not overtime that has the highest handle for the general level props, because there's no juice and they want a good way to start the game."
Casual bettors want to build that bankroll before kickoff regarding the coin toss. Both tails and heads are +100 at Caesars Sportsbook – did you expect one to be favored? – and bettors are leaning tails about 54 percent on tickets sold and money wagered. Tails leads all-time 29-26, but heads has won three of the past four.
Entering Super Bowl 49 between the Patriots and Seahawks, the winner of the coin toss had a 24-24 all-time record in the Super Bowl. Seattle won the toss but of course lost the game in the final seconds on that infamous Russell Wilson interception at the New England 1-yard line. That started the streak of seven straight coin toss winners losing the Super Bowl. Three years ago when the Rams were in this game, they won the toss but New England won 13-3.
DraftKings offers a prop on if a team wins the coin toss AND the game: Cincinnati is +350 for yes and -450 for no and Los Angeles is +170 for yes and -215 for no. The Rams' odds are shorter because they are 4-point favorites to win.
The longest heads winning streak in the Super Bowl is five and the longest tails is four. The NFC has won the coin toss six of the past eight Super Bowls. The Rams and Bengals both won the coin toss 11 times this season including playoffs.
Nearly every team defers these days if winning the toss, regardless of game. The last team to win the toss was and take the ball immediately was New Orleans in SB 44. The Saints would beat Peyton Manning and the Colts for their only Super Bowl title. That the Rams receive the ball if they win the coin toss is -140 and defer is +100.
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