Lowest and highest scoring Super Bowl games of NFL history, and how the 2024 score compares (2024)

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What is the lowest scoring game in Super Bowl history? ›

The lowest-scoring Super Bowl of all time was Super Bowl LIII in 2019. Just 16 total points were scored between the Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams. The Patriots won, 13-3. The previous record, set in 1973 at Super Bowl VII, was 21 points.

Los Angeles could not get the ball past midfield, so they punted it back to New England to end the half. The two teams went into their locker rooms with the Patriots leading, 3–0, the second lowest halftime score in Super Bowl history and the lowest since the 2–0 halftime score in Super Bowl IX after the 1974 season.

75 points (Super Bowl XXIX: San Diego Chargers vs. San Francisco 49ers) The highest-scoring Super Bowl was Super Bowl XXIX on January 29, 1995, in which the NFC champion San Francisco 49ers defeated the AFC champion San Diego Chargers 49–26 for a combined 75 points.

Topping the list is Super Bowl XXIV, where the San Francisco 49ers annihilated the Denver Broncos with a staggering 45-point margin, securing their second consecutive championship. Led by quarterback Joe Montana, the 49ers set records with their high-octane offense, cementing their place in football history.

There has never been a Super Bowl game without a touchdown scored by either team. There has, however, been a title game where one team failed to score a touchdown: the 1971 Dolphins, who lost 24–3 to the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl VI at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, La.

Super Bowl TV ratings in the U.S. 1990-2024

In 2024, Super Bowl LVII between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers achieved a TV rating of 42.1, up from the all-time low of 36.9 two years prior.

Kansas City Chiefs' CLUTCH Blocked PAT Keeps 49ers' Lead to 16-13 in Fourth Quarter of Super Bowl LVIII. Kansas City Chiefs' CLUTCH blocked PAT keeps San Francisco's lead at 16-13 in the fourth quarter.

The San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs came out of halftime of Super Bowl LVIII with the Niners leading by a score of 10-3.

Playoff competition - with the Super Bowl included - is a different proposition to the regular season games and features some rule changes. One of the key alterations made for the post-season period is the overtime rules, with games unable to end in a tie.

Kansas City Chiefs' tight end #87 Travis Kelce and Kansas City Chiefs' quarterback #15 Patrick Mahomes hug after winning Super Bowl LVIII against the San Francisco 49ers at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada, February 11, 2024. The Kansas City Chiefs win the 2024 Super Bowl, 25-22!

Who was the oldest player to play in the Super Bowl? ›

Steve DeBerg, Age 45: Super Bowl XXXIII.

The Patriots and Broncos are tied for the most Super Bowl losses at five. The Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, and Jacksonville Jaguars are the four teams to have never appeared in a Super Bowl, although the Browns and Lions both won NFL championships before the Super Bowl era.

The Broncos, who posted an 11–5 regular season record, entered the Super Bowl looking to avoid tying the Minnesota Vikings with four Super Bowl losses as well as the Vikings record of losing three Super Bowls in four years. This game remains the most lopsided in Super Bowl history.

The Super Bowl has seen plenty of blowouts in its history as 34 of the 56 games finished with a double-digit deficit when the game went final. The worst of the worst came on January 28 when the San Francisco 49ers smashed the Denver Broncos 55-10.

After averaging 32.9 points per game in the regular season, the Rams were held to just three points in Super Bowl LIII, tied for the fewest points scored by any team in Super Bowl history. The Patriots scored just 13 points in the win, with the game's only touchdown coming on a Sony Michel rush in the 4th quarter.

The 2011 Giants won the Super Bowl with a 9-7 record.

On Jan. 27, 1991, The New York Giants won when Buffalo Bills kicker Scott Norwood missed a field goal in the final seconds of the game. It was the second Super Bowl victory for the Giants and the only Super Bowl so far to be decided by one point.

Denver Broncos, Super Bowl XXIV (1990)

The biggest Super Bowl blowout in NFL history. John Elway was playing in his third Super Bowl with the Broncos and looking to win the franchise's first championship. However, they were big underdogs against the San Francisco 49ers, led by quarterback Joe Montana.