How Often Do 6-0 NFL Teams Win The Championship?

It's only six games, but it’s hard not to believe in the Kansas City Chiefs’ chance of being the first NFL team to “three-peat” as Super Bowl champs. The Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl odds are even more worth watching after some close victories.

On Sunday, the Chiefs improved to 6-0 (the last unbeaten team left standing this season) with a 28-18 victory over the 49ers in San Francisco in a rematch of Super Bowl 58. Kansas City also owns wins over AFC rivals in the Ravens and Bengals, so Chiefs fans will take them however they can get them to start the year. This start sets the stage for what could be a historic regular season for coach Andy Reid’s bunch.

At BetKansas.com, where you’ll find the best Kansas sports betting promo codes, we used the Champs or Chumps website to see how teams ended up after starting an NFL season with a 6-0 record since 2019. Only five teams in the previous five seasons started with six victories.

But strangely enough, none went on to hoist the Lombardi Trophy.

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Season Performance of NFL Teams Starting 6-0

Situation	Number of Teams	Percentage*
Making The Playoffs	5	100%
Advanced Past Wild Card Round	2	40%
Winning Divisional Round	2	40%
Winning Conference Championship	2	40%
Winning Super Bowl	0	0%

*Rounded to nearest whole number

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Can Chiefs Continue NFL’s 6-0 Winning Ways?

Since 2019, all five teams that won their first six games went on to make the playoffs. But only two, the 2022 Philadelphia Eagles and 2019 San Francisco 49ers, advanced past the Wild Card round. Both of those teams won their first eight games but both lost to the Chiefs in the Super Bowl.

The other three teams that started at least 6-0 since 2019 fell early in the playoffs. The 2021 Arizona Cardinals (who started 7-0), 2020 Pittsburgh Steelers (11-0) and 2019 New England Patriots (8-0) all lost in the Wild Card round. So, though it's an excellent indicator of a sure playoff team, a team starting 6-0 is not guaranteed to be the last squad standing at the end.

Expanding the timeframe beyond what we have charted, the only teams since 2000 to start 6-0 and miss the postseason were the 2009 Denver Broncos and the 2003 Minnesota Vikings. Neither of Reid's Super Bowl champion squads in the past two years started 6-0. However, the 2019 champs and 2020 Super Bowl runnerup team representing KC both started 4-0 before losing in Week 5.

This year, DraftKings Sportsbook Kansas lists Mahomes and the Chiefs as the favorite to win it all, at +400 odds as of Oct. 21.

USA Today Network photo by Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union

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Christopher Boan

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Christopher Boan is a lead writer at BetKansas.com specializing in covering state issues. He covered sports and sports betting in Arizona for more than seven years.