Sometimes the simplest bets are the most fun. Red or black? Heads or tails?

The Patriots called heads, won the coin toss and elected to receive to begin overtime. Tom Brady already had set his personal high of 416 passing yards in a Super Bowl. In overtime, New England received the kickoff after winning the coin toss and scored a touchdown to claim the franchise's fifth Super Bowl title. More than 30 team and individual Super Bowl records were broken or matched, 15 including Patriots running back James White 's 14 receptions and 20 points scored 16 and Brady's 43 completed passes. Toad returns in Super Mario 3D World and its Nintendo Switch port as one of the playable characters that the player can use. In this game, Toad is depicted with blue spots, which is consistent with his in-game appearance in the NES version of Super Mario Bros. 2, as well as the look of Blue Toad from the New Super Mario Bros. History favours tails. Through the first 54 Super Bowls, the coin toss has landed on tails 29 times out of 54. Even though the odds of a coin landing on either side are 50/50, the Super Bowl coin.

The last team to win the coin toss and lift the Vince Lombardi Trophy was the Seattle Seahawks in 2014 at Super Bowl 48, when they defeated the Denver Broncos 43-8. Below is a list of the past 10 Super Bowl coin toss results: 2020 Tails 2019 Tails 2018 Heads 2017 Tails 2016 Tails 2015 Tails 2014 Tails 2013 Heads 2012 Heads 2011 Heads.

The focus today is on the latter, as Super Bowl LV between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs gets underway. The Super Bowl coin toss to start the game each year is the most popular prop bet of all.

Was the coin toss heads or tails?

There’s a ton of hoopla before, during and after each Super Bowl. So if you stepped away to go to the bathroom or grab a beverage – you may have missed the result of whether the coin toss landed on heads or tails.

Update: The Chiefs called “heads” and were correct as it landed on “heads.” It was the third time in the last four Super Bowls that it landed on “heads.” The all-time Big Game score for heads vs. tails is now: Tails 29, Heads 26.

Who Won Super Bowl Coin Toss

Here were the coin toss odds prior to the game from top US sportsbooks like DraftKings, FanDuel and BetMGM.

Super Bowl Coin Toss Results

You can still live bet plenty of prop bets on Super Bowl LV. Go here for our Super Bowl props page.

2021 Super Bowl Coin Toss Results

Coin toss strategy

The coin toss is the ultimate 50-50 proposition. So you wouldn’t think there would be any strategy behind betting on it, right?

Well, most folks are superstitious with this sort of stuff.

Tails has actually been the victor at the majority of Super Bowls so far. In the previous 54 Big Games, the coin came up tails 29 times. Heads came up 25 times.

The coin came up tails four times in a row, from 2014 to 2017. This came on the heels of it landing on heads from 2009 through 2013.

You can also parlay the coin toss outcome to the Super Bowl winner, though that might not be the best option. Only 25 times out of 54 tries has the team that won the coin toss also won the game.

Super Bowl Coin Toss Heads

Check out the full history of the coin toss here, going back to Super Bowl I.

Super Bowl LI in Houston is just hours away, and the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons are going through the final stages of preparation as they gear up to take the field.

For the past two weeks, analysts, fans and pundits alike have speculated rampantly about which team has the advantage and who will ultimately finish the day with the Lombardi Trophy in hand.

But one thing which many people have not discussed ad nauseam is the pregame coin toss.

If you look at the overall record of coin toss winners over the course of the last 50 Super Bowls, the numbers aren’t that impressive, with teams who have won the coin toss having a record of just 24-26.

But things have changed a bit since 2008, when the NFL added the option to defer the choice to receive the kickoff until the second half. Since then, seven of eight teams who have won the Super Bowl coin toss chose to defer until the second half.

The only team not to defer? The 2009 New Orleans Saints, who famously opened up the second half of Super Bowl XLIV with a successful onside kick against the Indianapolis Colts.

The Patriots, as we know, love to defer until the second half, but it’ll be interesting to see if they take that route again today, should they win the toss. Atlanta has scored an opening touchdown in their last eight games, so New England may want to set the tone early by giving Brady the ball.