James Holzhauer likes a Patriots-Rams Super Bowl rematch, hates one hyped team

NFL training camps are starting this week, which means we’re just a few quiet sports weekends away from having some good times again.

While we patiently wait for football to be back, lets kill some time during a slow news day by looking at who James Holzhauer, who became a legendary Jeopardy! champion this year, likes to play in the Super Bowl this year.

The professional sports gambler sat down with Peter King this weekend and broke down the two teams he likes to play in the Super Bowl this season and the one hyped team he thinks you should stay far away from:

“If I had to pick a team or two to make it to the Super Bowl, win the Super Bowl, the boring answer is the Patriots and the Rams,” he told me, sitting a table away from an octogenarian couple. They were nibbling at chicken sandwiches before noon Sunday. “Everyone knows these guys are the best teams out there. But if you’re looking to invest in a futures ticket, I would say that the big thing to avoid is look away from the teams that have all the hype surrounding them. I can’t believe we live in a world where the Cleveland Browns are the most hyped team in the preseason. But I would say they’re probably the single worst bet to win the Super Bowl right now.”

Sorry, Cleveland.

He also had an interesting tip on when to place your bets:

One other thing: Bet on Sunday nights for the week ahead. “If they put the odds up for next week’s football games on a Sunday night, there’s not a lot of thought that goes into that,” he said. “But you give people a week to bet on this, the odds are going to be a lot more efficient.” Oh, and one other thing after that: Bet on college football. There’s not as much attention paid to those games.

Just remember to bet responsibly, folks.