Super Wild Card Weekend Showdowns: Which Underdog Will Shock the NFL and Advance?
The defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles opted to rest their starters in the regular-season finale instead of pushing for the conference’s No. 2 seed. And although they haven’t exactly looked overly dominant at times over the last month and a half, the Opta supercomputer still sees them as the favorites to come out of the NFC, predicting their likelihood of making the Super Bowl at 25.1% (as of Thursday).
The lone NFC participant who won’t be playing this weekend after clinching the conference’s top seed and the first-round bye, the Seattle Seahawks, have the next-best odds at 20.1%, followed by the Los Angeles Rams at 15.4% and the Green Bay Packers at 12.6% even though they enter the playoffs riding a four-game losing streak.


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