NFL 2025 Season Super Bowl LX Prediction – Zoltar Says the Seahawks will Beat the Patriots by 3 Points with a Score of 27-24

Zoltar is my NFL football prediction computer program. It uses a neural network and a type of reinforcement learning. Here is Zoltar’s prediction for week #22 (Super Bowl LX) of the 2025 season.

Zoltar:    seahawks  by    3  opp =    patriots    | Vegas:    seahawks  by  4.5

Zoltar’s prediction that the Seahawks will win by 3 point is very close to the Las Vegas point spread which has the Seahawk listed as favorites by 4.5 points.

Zoltar theoretically suggests betting when the Vegas line is “significantly” different from Zoltar’s prediction. During the beginning and end of the season, I use a conservative threshold of 4.0 points difference. During the middle part of the season I use a more aggressive threshold of 3.0 points difference.

For Super Bowl LX (week #22), because Zoltar agrees to within 1.5 points of the Vegas point spread, Zoltar has no wager recommendation. But if forced to make a suggestion, Zoltar would advise betting on the underdog Patriots, thinking that the Seahawks will win but not by more than 4.5 points.

A bet on the Patriots will pay off if the Patriots win by any score, or if the Seahawks win by less than 4.5 points (i.e., 4 points or less).

Theoretically, if you must bet $110 to win $100 (typical in Vegas) then you’ll make money if you predict at 53% accuracy or better. But realistically, you need to predict at 60% accuracy or better, to take into account logistics and things like manual data entry errors.

In week #21, against the Vegas point spread, Zoltar went 2-0 because the Broncos lost to the Patriots but not by more than 5.5 points, and the Seahawks beat he Rams by more than 2.5 points.

For the season, against the spread, pending the result of the Super Bowl, Zoltar is 50-30 (~62% accuracy).

Just for fun, I track how well Zoltar does when just trying to predict just which team will win a game. This isn’t useful except for parlay betting. In week #21, just predicting the winning team, Zoltar went 1-1. Vegas went 2-0 at just predicting the winning teams.

I’m old enough to have seen every Super Bowl. Here are three I remember well.

Left: I watched Super Bowl I in 1967 when the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10. I was attending at Servite High School in Anaheim, Calif. At that time the Super Bowl wasn’t a big event like it is now, but the game still attracted a lot of attention. The game was televised in color, which was still relatively rare in 1967. My family had a 25″ black and white Zenith TV. We got a color TV the next year.

Center: I grew up in Southern California and was therefore a Los Angeles Rams fan in the 1960s. But I had to wait until 2000 to see the Rams beat the Tennessee Titans 23-16 in Super Bowl XXXIV. The game featured rookie Kurt Warner who was never even drafted, and a bunch of “.com” TV ads, and a final play where a Titan receiver was tackled on the one-yard line to save the game for the Rams.

Right: I saw Super Bowl XLII in 2008 when the huge underdog New York Giants beat the then-undefeated New England Patriots 17-14. I saw this game in Las Vegas on huge TV screens in an auditorium at the MGM Grand Hotel, with three work colleagues – Patrick W., Rob D., and Brett O. The game featured an unbelievable “helmet catch”. It was an incredibly exciting experience in every way.