The New Orleans Saints are reigning Super Bowl champions and the sportsbook has them as the second choice in NFL betting at SBG to win this season’s competition.




Since only the Broncos and New England Patriots have defended their Super Bowl championship since the 1995 season, though, history is against the Saints. The schedule may support the Saints however as they ought to be preferred in sportsbook online probabilities in their 1st ten games this season.

They are also going to need to contend with a highly determined Dallas squad who is trying to be the 1st squad in NFL history to play the Super Bowl at their home stadium. The Dallas Cowboys are the richest squad in the NFL and hold the record for the most Super Bowl appearances as well as the most NFC championships. So they might find some resistance still between them and the 2011 Super Bowl, even if the Saints make it from the NFC South, which they are expected to do.

It should be noted that no squad has ever won back-to-back titles in this division since it started in 2002, although the Saints are the favorite to win the NFC South. The Saints are going to have a target on their backs all year as reigning champions. The great news for the Saints is that they’ve got one of the least difficult schedules in the NFL. They have only 5 games against teams that got to playoffs last season.

The Saints start the season with a rematch of the NFC Championship game against the Minnesota Vikings. New Orleans is a 4-point home favorite in that competition. It won’t be an simple competition but history is on the side of the Saints. Reigning Super Bowl champs starting at home have fared nicely the past few seasons.

In what looks to be a letdown spot after playing the Vikings, the Saints will visit San Francisco in Week 2. The Saints have won the past 5 meetings against the 49ers though and they will be preferred. Week 3 is a quite hard home competition against the Atlanta Falcons and then another possible letdown competition against Carolina. The Saints have a winnable two-game road trip with games at Arizona and Tampa Bay. They then host Cleveland and Pittsburgh before going to Carolina. The Saints then have their bye week prior to hosting the Seahawks. The competition against Dallas on November 25th looks to be the Saints hardest competition. Since the Saints usually don’t fare well in cold weather, they then go to Cincinnati in what will be a hard competition. They then return home to host St. Louis before another hard cold weather competition at Baltimore on December 19th. Before concluding at home against Tampa Bay, the Saints then have to go to Atlanta in a game that might decide the division.


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