NFL Playoff Betting

The great thing about NFL betting is that there are so many different types of bets you can take advantage of at so many safe and reputable online sportsbooks that you will literally be spoilt for choice.

During the regular season, for instance, you have a plethora of individual games to wager on, as well as a host of specials, and ever-popular futures, particularly with regards to the playoffs and the Super Bowl.

NFL Playoff Bets Extremely Popular

If who will win the Super Bowl is the ultimate NFL bet, because it represents the pinnacle of each season, then NFL playoff bets are no doubt the most exciting. The reason is that games played at this stage of the season serve to 'separate the men from the boys' as far as Super Bowl contenders are concerned.

Most teams that make it into the playoffs deserve to be there, as their records for regular season attest to. But winning records aside, just one loss in the post season can scupper a team's entire season, not too mention a playoff betting fan's prospects, who chose to back the team right at the start of the season.

Case in point. In the 2011/12 NFL season, the Green Bay Packers cruised into the playoffs with an exemplary record of 15-1, and as such were extremely well backed by playoff betting fans to hoist the Vince Lombardi trophy that season.

However, those self same NFL bettors - who between them laid tens of millions of dollars in playoffs future bets, playoffs prop bets, not too mention regular match bets - were stunned when the Packers were dispatched 37-20 by eventual Super Bowl winners, the New York Giants, in a massive upset.

Why You Should Bet on NFL Playoffs

But instead of deterring you from betting on the playoffs each season, the above anecdote is designed to motivate you to bet on the playoffs, for two important reasons:

One, it's no secret that playoff games are often the most exciting of any season in the lead up to the Super Bowl, especially when you have money riding on the outcome. And two, if you pick a team that is not necessarily a favorite, but one you feel has got what it takes to make it to the Super Bowl, you stand a chance of winning a fortune. Just ask any New York Giants betting fan from last season.

2013-14 NFL Playoff Betting

In terms of the 2013-14 NFL playoff betting, the New England Patriots, Baltimore Ravens, Houston Texans, Denver Broncos, New York Giants, Green Bay Packers, Atlanta Falcons and San Francisco 49ers are the current betting favorites to win their respective divisions, and thus the big NFL playoff betting contenders.

The Denver Broncos are highly favored to win the AFC Conference, and the San Francisco 49ers are highly favored to win the NFC Conference. So if NFL oddsmakers turn out to be right, we could well see a Broncos 49ers Super Bowl XLVIII.

See our large range of playoffs futures odds, playoffs props and of course regular betting lines and match odds.