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If there is one Super Bowl betting prop that gets more bets than any other, it would be that world famous coin toss.
The Super Bowl coin toss in fact has become a science.
Heads or Tails? Until the Philadelphia Eagles won the coin toss before Super Bowl XXXIX, the coin toss for the Super Bowl was clearly a 50/50 proposition. In the first 38 Super Bowls, half of the teams who won the pre-game coin toss in a Super Bowl went on to win that game while the other half lost the game.
There is one recent trend to consider and it was broken by the Giants last year. They became the first team since Tampa Bay five years earlier to win both the coin toss and the gamewhile the coin toss loser has won 9 out of the last 12 Super Bowls.
"The coin toss is probably among the most popular prop bets because it is usually the first bet determined as a winner or loser," explains Don Shapiro of Gambling911.com.
Now not all coin toss betting odds are made the same, so it is important to find odds as close to even as possible. betED.com had 2009 Super Bowl coin toss odds at -105, which is a significant savings over the -115 and up that some online sportsbooks were offering. Heads and tails will almost always have the same odds.
Tyrone Black, Gambling911.com
