If you didn’t know before, now you do. Super Bowl 51 will be the seventh time in NFL history that the team with the league’s highest scoring offense will square off against the team with the highest scoring defense.Will the high-scoring Falcons (33.8 ppg) be able to get liftoff to overcome New England’s mostly anonymous, but stingy defense (15.6 ppg)? Let’s take a look back at the six Super Bowl betting matchups that featured a No. 1 offense going up against a No. 1 defense.
Super Bowl Matchups With Top Scoring Defense Vs Top Scoring Offense
Year | SB | No. 1 Offense | No. 1 Defense | Result |
1966 | I | Chiefs (32.0) | Packers (11.6) | Green Bay 35, Kansas City 10 |
1978 | XIII | Cowboys (24.0) | Steelers (12.2) | Pittsburgh 35, Dallas 31 |
1984 | XIX | Dolphins (32.1) | 49ers (14.2) | San Francisco 38, Miami 16 |
1989 | XXIV | 49ers (27.6) | Broncos (14.1) | San Francisco 55, Denver 10 |
1990 | XXV | Bills (26.8) | Giants (13.3) | New York 20, Buffalo 19 |
2013 | XLVIII | Broncos (37.9) | Seahawks (14.4) | Denver favored by 3 points |