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Madden NFL 23 predicts Eagles to beat Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII

And it’s not even close

Marco Wutz

Madden NFL 23 predicts Eagles to beat Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII
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The Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles will face each other in Super Bowl LVII on February 13, 2023, in what fans hope will be an exciting showdown. According to Madden NFL 23, EA Sports’ popular American football sim, only one side’s fans will have any fun during this event, however.

Predicting the outcome of Super Bowl LVII in Madden NFL 23, EA Sports says that the Eagles will take home the championship rings with a one-sided 31-17 victory over the Chiefs.

Jalen Hurts is named MVP by the sim, completing 26 of 33 passes for 282 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions while rushing ten times for 88 yards and yet another touchdown – a decisive performance by Philadelphia’s quarterback, which crucially allowed the Eagles to break the 10-10 stalemate at halftime.

Kansas City Chiefs star Patrick Mahomes merely completed one touchdown pass, allowing Travis Kelce to score the first points of the game. Completing 29 out of 39 passes for 249 yards and one interception aside from the opening touchdown, Mahomes did not bring enough to the field to change the outcome in his team’s favor, being sacked twice by the Eagles’ Haason Reddick.

All that paints a bleak picture for the Chiefs, but there is still hope: Unlike EA Sports’ predictions in the FIFA series for the soccer world championship, which have astonishing accuracy, the Super Bowl predictions created in Madden’s simulations historically don’t have the best track record.

Madden picked the wrong team in the two previous seasons, falsely predicting the Cincinnati Bengals to win against the Los Angeles Rams and saying the Chiefs would triumph over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Both times, the other side took the championship rings.

Super Bowl LIV was the last time Madden got things right, with the Chiefs correctly being predicted to defeat the San Francisco 49ers. It even got Mahomes as the MVP right on that occasion.

Before that, another two predictions missed the mark with one them saying that Super Bowl LII would go the New England Patriots’ way – in that case, the Philadelphia Eagles got the last laugh.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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