SportsLine/Harmon Forecast: Super Bowl

  
 
   

 

The Harmon Football Forecast is one of the most highly regarded and widely read sports features in the country, published in over 200 newspapers.

Harmon Stat Pack
Divisional playoff games: 2 picks
Right: 1
Wrong: 1
Pct: .5
YTD: 258 picks
Right: 163
Wrong: 95
Pct: .632
Harmon's archive

It all began when Bob Harmon began predicting college and NFL games in 1957. He devised a mathematical formula that picked winners correctly between 72 and 78 percent of the time; most seasons getting almost 75 percent of his picks right.

Today, Jim Harmon and his staff are the only forecasters who predict exact scores and chart every college and pro team.

Sunday's game (2/3/2002):

St. Louis 34, New England 26
The Patriots shut down the Steelers' top-ranked running game last weekend, but a similar defensive performance against the Rams' top-ranked passing game would be nothing short of a miracle. Yes, N.E. has won eight in a row since losing to St. Louis 24-17 in Week Ten, but the Pats' major defensive weakness now is the same as it was then, when Rams QB Kurt Warner completed 30 of 42 passes for 402 yards and three TD's. St. Louis has won four straight in the series.

* Denotes Home Team

* Note: Picks are straight up.