Super Bowl LIX betting is all about Saquon Barkley, with a dose of Taylor Swift

Super Bowl betting is each astir Saquon Barkley.

Caesars Sportsbook had already received tens of thousands of bets involving the Philadelphia Eagles’ generational moving backmost successful the days starring up to Super Bowl LIX successful New Orleans against the Kansas City Chiefs.

“Every stake seems to beryllium connected Saquon Barkley to people an anytime touchdown,” Craig Mucklow, the sportsbook’s pb oddsmaker, told the Daily News. “He leads by two-to-one successful summons counts, and rightly truthful due to the fact that of each the scores he’s got this year.”

Barkley’s likelihood for an anytime touchdown are -190 successful what Mucklow described arsenic easy the most-bet market.

His likelihood to people astatine slightest 2 touchdowns are +290.

The numbers are reflective of the historic play delivered by Barkely, who, successful his archetypal twelvemonth since leaving the Giants, totaled 15 touchdowns successful the regular seasons and has 5 much successful the playoffs.

He’s scored successful 10 of his 19 games this season, and he’s scored astatine slightest doubly successful 7 of them. That includes a two-touchdown show successful the Eagles’ divisional-round triumph implicit the Los Angeles Rams and a three-touchdown detonation successful their NFC title crippled triumph implicit the Washington Commanders.

“It’s each Saquon,” Mucklow said. “If helium has a large game, it’s a large time for customers, that’s for sure.”

Barkley ran for 2,005 yards successful the regular play and has rushed for astatine slightest 118 yards successful each 3 playoff games.

Caesars acceptable Barkley’s Super Bowl over/under prop astatine 112.5 rushing yards.

“It’s the biggest [number] successful a agelong time, and I’ve been successful it for 25 years,” Mucklow said. “I don’t deliberation I’ve enactment 110+ [yards] connected a moving back.”

Commanding the second-most bets for an anytime touchdown is Eagles moving backmost Jalen Hurts, followed by Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes. Both scored aggregate rushing touchdowns during title weekend.

There are besides prop bets inspired by Taylor Swift, who is expected to beryllium successful attendance to cheer connected her boyfriend, Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce.

“The quality of having Taylor Swift past twelvemonth and this twelvemonth is we tin spell implicit the aforesaid props,” Mucklow said. “The astir fashionable 1 past twelvemonth was ‘1989’: Travis Kelce to get 1 touchdown oregon more, 9 oregon much receptions and 89 oregon much receiving yards.”

Of course, “1989” refers to an medium released by Swift successful 2014.

“Last year, [the ‘1989’ prop was] 4-1 based connected however bully his play was,” Mucklow said. “This year, we’re 10-1.”

Caesars does not connection likelihood for things similar Swift’s surface clip oregon a astonishment halftime amusement cameo, arsenic those outcomes tin beryllium determined by 1 idiosyncratic and frankincense could endanger the integrity of the market.

But the sportsbook inactive offers antithetic props, including giving 14-1 likelihood that idiosyncratic scores an “octopus.” An octopus occurs erstwhile a subordinate scores a touchdown and the consequent two-point conversion to relationship for each 8 points.

Hurts scored an octopus erstwhile the Eagles and Chiefs met successful Super Bowl LVII 2 years ago.

“From a same-game parlay perspective, the biggest liability present for Caesars is Travis Kelce, Xavier Worthy, A.J. Brown, DeVonta Smith each to people touchdowns,” Mucklow said. “That pays 60-1.”

Caesars had already received six six-figure bets connected the Eagles, and different for the teams to harvester for nether 49.5 points, successful the days starring up to the Super Bowl. The Chiefs are 1.5-point favorites.

“We broke a grounds successful Nevada past year, which is $185 million, and that’s due to the fact that the Super Bowl was held there,” Mucklow said. “We’re hoping that the passionate fans of New Orleans volition bash precisely the aforesaid this year. It’s connected the trajectory close now, but 60% of the wealth doesn’t travel until Sunday.”