49ers Once Again Early Super Bowl Favorites In A Crowded Field
For the second year in a row, football fans predict the San Francisco 49ers will win Super Bowl XLVIII.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 25% of Football Fans say the 49ers, last year’s runner-up, will win the Super Bowl. In a distant second are the Denver Broncos with 14%. The New England Patriots are seen as this year’s eventual champions by nine percent (9%), while nearly as many (8%) think the Green Bay Packers will win it all. Seven percent (7%) say the same of the Seattle Seahawks and the Washington Redskins. No other team surveyed reached five percent (5%) support. (Please click here to find out the rest of the teams surveyed).
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The national survey of 1,000 Football Fans was conducted on September 3-4, 2013 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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