Yes, you read the headline right. If the Baltimore Ravens lose to the Washington Redskins on Sunday, the Ravens are your Super Bowl 51 champions. It doesn’t have to make sense. It’s just reality. History says that.
The Ravens and the Redskins have played five times in the past during the regular season and the Ravens lead the all-time series 3-2. However, those two losses that the Ravens have against the Redskins ended up turning into the best outcome at the end of both seasons that Ravens could have asked for.
In 2000, when the Ravens were going through its historic touchdown drought of going five straight games without scoring a touchdown on offense, the Ravens went on a three game losing streak including a loss to the Redskins by the score of 10-3 at Landover, Maryland.