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Map Of America Shows Who Every State Is Rooting For To Win Super Bowl 61

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This article was originally published on Total Pro Sports.

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America Map (Photo via X)

America already has opinions on Super Bowl 61. The 2026 season is one week away from kickoff, and the title game still sits months away. That has not stopped a fresh rooting map from spreading.

Home markets stay loyal, rival states pick a villain, and everyone else seems to want chaos. Valentine’s Day on February 14, 2027, only makes that noise feel bigger.

The Los Angeles Rams sit atop early futures boards after a loaded offseason. The Seattle Seahawks remain the defending champions and still own a national footprint. Those two names dominate the early map talk more than anyone else.

What The Super Bowl 61 Rooting Map Actually Shows

Super Bow LXI logo on a football.
Super Bowl LXI logo on a football. Credit: USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect

Regional loyalty still rules the picture in the first week of September. Washington will back Seattle without thinking twice about the rest of the country. Southern California will split between the Rams and older NFC West grudges that never really die. New England will wait on Drake Maye again, while Buffalo keeps pushing Josh Allen toward another January run.

The rest of the country rarely picks the favorite out of love. Fans pick against dynasties, against division rivals, and against the team that will annoy a neighbor. That same pattern showed up last winter before Super Bowl 60, when most of America leaned Seattle. New England held New England plus a few snowbird states and almost nothing else.

SoFi Stadium adds another layer that older Super Bowl maps never had. The Rams and Chargers share the building, so a home title game would split Los Angeles in half. A Chargers run would flip the colors again and turn the whole map into a local civil war.

Super Bowl 61 Already Has National Villains

Feb 2, 2026; San Jose, CA, USA; The Vince Lombardi Trophy is displayed during Opening Night for Super Bowl LX at San Jose Convention Center. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

America does not need a locked matchup before it starts picking sides for Super Bowl 61. It only needs a target, and last year’s Patriots return created instant fatigue outside New England. The Chiefs created the same fatigue a year earlier during their long run. The next target will be whoever looks too good by November.

The Rams fit that role right now after adding stars and keeping Matthew Stafford in place. Puka Nacua is back, the defense got louder, and oddsmakers already made Los Angeles the early Super Bowl favorite. That favorite tag paints a bullseye across most of the map.

Seattle faces the opposite problem because champions rarely stay beloved outside their own region. The SoFi Stadium host plan also keeps California in the spotlight all winter.

Maps like this are mood, not science, and they capture who fans want to beat. Home states stay painted in team colors while the middle of the country stays gray. Super Bowl 61 still has seventeen weeks, plus the playoffs, to wreck every early prediction on that map.

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