Every year, it looks like the Superbowl winners will be between one or two pre-season favourites. The titans of the game who go into the action with the best roster always seem to look like top picks on paper. But ball games aren’t won on paper. Titles are only handed to the team who put in the work through blood, sweat and tears on any given Sunday.

Which pre-season favourites have fallen at the first fence, and which others have gone on to make a falling pitch into the end zone look like a piece of Superbowl pizza pie? Here are all the pre-season picks, with the eventual winners odds from pre-season too.

2010 – Indianapolis Colts (8/1) – Lost in Wild Card Play-Offs

While the Colts won the AFC South division title for the seventh time in eight seasons, they were pipped 17-16 by the New York Jets in the Wild Card round of the postseason playoffs, which transpired to be legendary player Peyton Manning’s final game in a Colts jersey.