Schrager Picks Bills to Win Super Bowl 60, Correctly Predicted 5 of Last 6 Champs

Congratulations to the Buffalo Bills.

If recent history is any indication, you will be lifting the Lombardi Trophy at the end of the upcoming NFL season.

ESPN's Peter Schrager predicted the Bills to defeat the Philadelphia Eagles in this season's Super Bowl during Thursday's SportsCenter Special. That was notable because he correctly predicted the Super Bowl winner five years in a row going into last season.

However, he predicted the Kansas City Chiefs to defeat the Green Bay Packers going into that 2024 campaign. While he got the Chiefs being in the Super Bowl part correct, Patrick Mahomes and Co. lost to the Eagles with the Lombardi Trophy on the line.

A Super Bowl between the Bills and Eagles would be a dream matchup for several reasons, not the least of which would be the star power.

Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley, A.J. Brown and more would provide plenty of offensive fireworks in a showdown between two of the most talented teams in the league. But Buffalo also means another obvious storyline, as the franchise is still looking for its first Lombardi Trophy.

It has certainly come close with four straight Super Bowl losses in the early '90s and an ongoing streak of six straight playoff appearances. It has reached the AFC Championship Game twice in that stretch of six years, only to lose to Mahomes and the Chiefs each time.

Yet Schrager believes this is the year the Bills finally get over the hump.

Doing so will be anything but easy, as that means emerging from a conference that features Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow and other star quarterbacks. But earning the No. 1 seed and the first-round bye and home-field advantage that comes with it would be monumental, and the Bills have both the Baltimore Ravens and Chiefs at home during the regular season.

Head-to-head wins in those contests would give the AFC East team the critical tiebreakers and an inside lane on that No. 1 seed.

From there, it would only have to win two playoff games to reach the Super Bowl and the potential matchup against the reigning-champion Eagles.