It's easy to project how great teams like the Patriots, Seahawks, Steelers or Panthers might win the Super Bowl.
It's not too hard to project how a pretty good team could win the Super Bowl, either.If Andrew Luck bounces back…If all the Vikings' young talent develops…If the Bengals find the right combination of meditation and yoga to get them through the playoffs…and so on.
It's a real challenge, however, to project how a bad team wins the Super Bowl. Yet teams with terrible records one year sometimes win the Super Bowl the following season, like the 1999 Rams or the 2001 Patriots.