Super Bowl LIX took place on Sunday, February 9, featuring the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles duking it out for the title. EA's 2025 simulation using Madden NFL 25 predicted the Eagles would beat the Chiefs by a score of 23-21. In reality, the Eagles did win. By a much bigger margin of 40-22. The simulation also predicted that Eagles QB Jalen Hurts would be named Super Bowl LIX MVP--and he was.
The game was predicted by Madden--and many others--to be a close one. However, it was not. The Eagles blew out the Chiefs, with Kansas City only putting up big numbers in the game's garbage time to make the score look closer than it was in reality.
With an accurate prediction, EA's Madden Super Bowl simulation has now been correct two years in a row, as it also predicted the Chiefs would win 2024's Super Bowl, which they did.
EA's predictions in the past have been eerily accurate, like in 2015 when the simulation predicted the Patriots' comeback victory against the Seattle Seahawks--and the final score--along with the exact type of pass play that made it happen. It was spooky. But EA isn't always that accurate with its predictions. Sometimes, the simulation gets it very, very wrong.
As you'll see below, EA's track record for predicting the winner has been a mix.
EA got off to a hot start by accurately predicting the Super Bowl winners four straight years, from Super Bowl 38 to Super Bowl 41. Since then, however, the simulation never got it right more than two years in a row, but it also never got it wrong for more than two straight years.
Off the field, companies spent as much as $8 million for 30-second advertisements on Fox, which carried the game this year.
Madden Super Bowl Predictions Over The Years
| Super Bowl | EA Prediction | Actual Result | Right Or Wrong? |
|---|---|---|---|
Super Bowl 59 Super Bowl 58 Super Bowl 57 Super Bowl 56 Super Bowl 55 Super Bowl 54 | PHI 23, KC 21 KC 30, SF 28 PHI 31, KC 17 LA 21, CIN 24 KC 37, TB 27 KC 35, SF 31 | PHI 40, KC 22 KC 25, SF 22 KC 38, PHI 35 LA 23, CIN 20 KC 9, TB 31 KC 31, SF 20 | Right! Right! Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Right! |
| Super Bowl 53 | LA 30, NE 27 | NE 13, LA 3 | Wrong! |
| Super Bowl 52 | NE 24, PHI 20 | PHI 41, NE 33 | Wrong! |
| Super Bowl 51 | NE 27, ATL 24 | NE 34, ATL 28 | Right! |
| Super Bowl 50 | CAR 24, DEN 20 | DEN 24, CAR 10 | Wrong! |
| Super Bowl 49 | NE 28, SEA 24 | NE 28, SEA 24 | Spooky Good! |
| Super Bowl 48 | DEN 31, SEA 28 | SEA 43, DEN 8 | Wrong! |
| Super Bowl 47 | BAL 27, SF 24 | BAL 34, SF 31 | Right! |
| Super Bowl 46 | NYG 27, NE 24 | NYG 21, NE 17 | Right! |
