Super Bowl 2015 coin toss prop bet: Results for the opening coin toss

The first “football decision” of Super Bowl 49 involves one team calling the coin toss. Given that there are two potential outcomes, Super Bowl prop betting allows for multiple wagers on the toss. You can bet if it will land on heads or tails, which team will win the coin toss, if the team making the call will win the coin toss, and if the coin toss winner will win the game.

We have results on the first three wagers, and will update this article once the winner of the game has been determined. The coin landed on TAILS. The Patriots called heads and lost the coin toss.

Before the 2015 Super Bowl, heads and tails had evenly split the first 48 Super Bowls. Heads had a five-year run from 2009 to 2013, and tails came up nine of 11 seasons from 1998 to 2006. Each coin toss is an independent event, however, so one cannot simply wager on one side of the coin being “hot,” or one side being due to come up.

Both heads and tails were paying out at -105, meaning a $105 bet won $100 if the correct result came up. The team result was much the same, paying out -105 on an even bet between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots, with Seattle winning. New England called the toss incorrectly, which will pay out -115 on another even bet.

One prop bet relating to the coin toss remains: the game winner. The proposition that the coin toss winner will go on to win the Super Bowl is paying an even -115, but obviously that can’t be determined until the game is over.