Super Bowl Coin Toss Odds, Results, Betting History & Trends – Heads or Tails for Every Year

Every single Super Bowl has started with a coin toss to determine who will get the ball to start the game and which half of the field belongs to each team. Betting on that coin toss is still a somewhat new thing, however. Since it has become available it has quickly turned into one of the more popular and interesting Super Bowl props.

As the only true 50-50 proposition you can find, sportsbooks also charge a lot less juice on the coin toss. You could find either “heads” or “tails” available at +100 odds at DraftKings Sportsbook for the 2024 Super Bowl. For comparison, a game between two evenly matched teams generally sees -110 odds offered on each side to win.

As a result, this prop draws the attention of all types of sports bettors. One bettor reportedly placed a $5,000 bet on the Super Bowl 55 coin toss, siding with heads for a $9,850 return.

We’ve collected all the coin toss results from past Super Bowls, and also looked into how often the team who wins the coin toss goes on to win the game.

Historical Super Bowl Coin Toss Results | 2024 Super Bowl Coin Toss Odds

Super Bowl Coin Toss Results

Super Bowl 58 sees the San Francisco 49ers vs Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, February 11 with kickoff scheduled for 6:30pm ET. Bill Vinovich is the head referee for the game and will therefore have the honor of flipping the coin. The San Francisco 49ers will get to call the coin toss in the 2024 Super Bowl, as it is the NFC’s year to be the visiting team.

In Vinovich’s two previous Super Bowls, Super Bowl 49 and 54, the coin toss came up tails in both. The visiting Patriots called “Heads” in Super Bowl 49, losing the toss, while the visiting 49ers called “Tails” in Super Bowl 54.

Neither the Seahawks or 49ers, who won those two coin tosses, would go onto win those Super Bowls.

Super Bowl Coin Toss Trends

Here are a handful of trends we’ve unearthed from the Super Bowl coin toss results:

• The coin toss has been Tails in seven of the last 11 Super Bowls
• The team who won the coin toss has lost the Super Bowl in eight of the last ten years, and is 26-32 all-time
• The Cowboys hold the record for most Super Bowl coin toss wins with five

Now here’s a look at the heads/tails results.

Heads vs Tails Records in Super Bowls

Even though the probability of each outcome (heads or tails) is split 50-50, the actual outcomes slightly favor tails right now thanks to the recent trend. After Super Bowl 48, we were tied 24-24. Tails has just rarely failed lately.

Tails currently holds the advantage with a 30-28 record over heads. That means tails has happened in 51.7% of Super Bowl coin tosses.

Super Bowl 58 Coin Toss Odds

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Bill Vinovich has flipped 17 coins this season and the visiting team, which is the side who always calls the toss, has won nine of those, but the away team is 0-1 in the playoffs. (Vinovich had Wild Card Weekend off.)

The 49ers are hot lately when calling the coin toss. San Francisco started the season 0-3 when calling heads/tails, but are have correctly called four of their last six to finish the season 4-5. They have not called any coin tosses in the playoffs, as they have been the home team in each game.

The Chiefs are 4-6 on coin tosses this season when their opponent gets to make the call. This includes being 0-1 in the playoffs, as the Dolphins correctly called the toss during Wild Card Weekend, the only home game the Chiefs have enjoyed this postseason.

Which States Can Bet on the Super Bowl Coin Toss?

In order to bet on the Super Bowl coin toss, you must reside in one of the following states:

• Arizona
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Maryland
• Michigan
• Missouri
• New Jersey
• New York
• Pennsylvania
• Washington
• West Virginia
• Wyoming

If you enjoyed this historical Super Bowl coin toss data, be sure to check out our other Super Bowl resources below:

• Super Bowl Odds History
• Gatorade Color Dump at Super Bowl
• Super Bowl National Anthem Length History
• Super Bowl Halftime Show History – first and last songs played each year
• Super Bowl First Touchdown Scorer Odds