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Super Bowl LX Game Preview: Patriots vs. Seahawks

The New England Patriots will appear in their 12th Super Bowl when they face the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl LX at Levi's Stadium on February 8, 2026.

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LEVI'S STADIUM

The New England Patriots advanced to their 12th Super Bowl and 11th under Robert Kraft, the most in NFL history. New England has a chance to break a tie with Pittsburgh (six) and win their seventh Super Bowl, which would be the most Super Bowl titles in NFL history. The Patriots will face the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl for the second time. The Patriots defeated Seattle, 28-24, in Super Bowl XLIX on February 1, 2015. The 2025 Patriots finished the season tied with the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks for the best record in the NFL with a 14-3 record to earn the No. 2 seed in the AFC Playoffs. The 14-3 record is a 10-game difference from the 4-13 finish in 2024. The 10-game improvement tied the 1999 Indianapolis Colts and the 2008 Miami Dolphins for the best turnaround in NFL history. The 1998 Colts were 3-13 and improved to 13-3 in 1999, and the 2007 Dolphins were 1-15 in 2007 and improved to 11-5 in 2008.

PATRIOTS IN THE SUPER BOWL

The New England Patriots will play in their 12th Super Bowl overall.

SUPER BOWL RESULTS (6-5)

Date Round Opponent W / L Score
02/03/19 Super Bowl LIII L.A. Rams W 13-3
02/04/18 Super Bowl LII Philadelphia L 33-41
02/05/17 Super Bowl LI Atlanta W 34-28 (OT)
02/01/15 Super Bowl XLIX Seattle W 28-24
02/05/12 Super Bowl XLVI N.Y. Giants L 17-21
02/03/08 Super Bowl XLII N.Y. Giants L 14-17
02/06/05 Super Bowl XXXIX Philadelphia W 24-21
02/01/04 Super Bowl XXXVIII Carolina W 32-29
02/03/02 Super Bowl XXXVI St. Louis W 20-17
01/26/97 Super Bowl XXXI Green Bay L 21-35
01/26/86 Super Bowl XX Chicago L 10-46

HISTORY OF REMATCHES

Super Bowl LX with the Patriots and the Seahawks will be a Super Bowl rematch. The Patriots and Seahawks met previously in Super Bowl XLIX, a 28-24 New England win. There have now been 10 total Super Bowl rematches, and the Patriots have been involved in four of them, after facing the N.Y. Giants twice, the St. Louis/L.A. Rams twice, the Philadelphia Eagles twice and now the Seattle Seahawks twice. Dallas and Pittsburgh have played in three Super Bowls against each other.

SERIES HISTORY

The New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks will meet in a Super Bowl for the second time. The Patriots won Super Bowl XLIX against Seattle with a 28-24 victory at the University of Phoenix Stadium on Feb. 1, 2015.

This will be the 21st overall meeting between the two teams. Seattle leads the all-time series 11-9. The Patriots have lost the last three regular season meetings, including a 23-20 overtime loss on Sept. 15, 2024 in Week 2 last season at Gillette Stadium.

Seattle joins San Francisco and Philadelphia as the only teams to have a winning record against New England at Gillette Stadium.

The Patriots and Seahawks played 12 times in a 14-year span from 1980-93, but have played only seven times since then (2004, '08, '12, '16, '20, '24 and Super Bowl XLIX).

SERIES BREAKDOWN

NEW ENGLAND 9, SEATTLE 11 (Including New England's SB XLIX Win)

Home Record: 4-7

  • Gillette Stadium: 1-2
  • Foxboro Stadium: 0-3
  • Sullivan Stadium: 2-2
  • Schaefer Stadium: 1-0

Road Record: 4-4

  • Kingdome: 3-2
  • Qwest Field: 1-0
  • CenturyLink Field: 0-2

Neutral Site: 1-0

Total Points in the Series: Patriots 423, Seahawks 408

QUICK HITS

The Seahawks are the only non-divisional team that the Patriots have played twice in the regular season in the same year. That scheduling oddity took place during the 1993 season, the only year in which the league's 16-game schedule was played over an 18-week span and each team was allotted two bye weeks.

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TALE OF THE TAPE

2025 REGULAR SEASON NEW ENGLAND SEAHAWKS
Record 14-3 14-3
Divisional Standings 1st 1st
Total Yards Gained 6,449 5,973
Total Offense (Rank) 379.4 (3) 351.4 (8)
Rush Offense 128.9 (6) 123.3 (10T)
Pass Offense 250.5 (4) 228.1 (8)
Points Per Game 28.8 (2) 28.4 (3)
Total Yards Allowed 5,019 4,860
Total Defense (Rank) 295.2 (8) 285.9 (6)
Rush Defense 101.7 (5) 91.9 (3)
Pass Defense 193.5 (9) 193.9 (10)
Points Allowed / Game 18.8 (4) 17.2 (1)
Possession Avg. 31:18 30:00
Sacks Allowed / Yards Lost 48/201 27/186
Sacks Made / Yards 35/222 47/322
Total Touchdowns Scored 58 51
Penalties Against / Yards 99/854 100/793
Punts / Avg. 51/47.4 52/49.0
Turnover Differential +3 (10) -3 (19T)

CONNECTIONS

FORMER PATRIOTS

Players

  • TE Eric Saubert (2019)

Coach

  • Strength & Conditioning Asst. Grant Steen (2004-05)
  • Quarterbacks Coach Charles London (2005)

FORMER SEAHAWKS

Players

  • C Ben Brown (2023)
  • TE Marshall Lang (2025)

Coach

  • Offensive Asst. Chuckie Keeton (2024)

WHAT TO LOOK FOR

  • The Patriots will play in an NFL record 12th Super Bowl after capturing the AFC Championship with a 10-7 win at Denver. The Patriots are 6-5 in Super Bowls.
  • A victory in Super Bowl LX will give the Patriots their seventh NFL title and the most Super Bowl wins in NFL history. The team is currently tied with Pittsburgh with six Super Bowl wins.
  • The 2025 Patriots improved from a 4-13 record in 2024 to a 14-3 record in 2025. They are the 15th team to reach the Super Bowl a year after finishing with a losing season. The Patriots have done that two other times in their history, reaching the Super Bowl in 1996 after a 6-10 finish the year before and reaching the Super Bowl in 2001 a year after finishing with a 5-11 record.
  • With a victory in Super Bowl LX, the Patriots will join the 1981 San Francisco 49ers, the 1999 St. Louis Rams, the 2001 New England Patriots, the 2017 Philadelphia Eagles and the 2020 Tampa Bay Buccaneers as the only teams to follow a losing record with a Super Bowl victory.
  • The Patriots are the sixth team to have reached a Super Bowl after winning five or fewer games the previous year. The Rams and Patriots were the only teams to win the Super Bowl from that group.
  • New England became the ninth team to go from "worst to first" and make the Super Bowl in the same season, joining the Cincinnati Bengals (1981, 1988 and 2021), St. Louis Rams (1999), New England Patriots (2001), Carolina Panthers (2003), New Orleans Saints (2009) and Philadelphia Eagles (2017). Of that group, the Rams, Patriots, Eagles and Saints won the Super Bowl.
  • Super Bowl LX with the Patriots and the Seahawks will be a Super Bowl rematch. The Patriots and Seahawks met previously in Super Bowl XLIX, a 28-24 New England win. There have been 10 total Super Bowl rematches, and the Patriots have been involved in four of them, after facing the N.Y. Giants twice, the St. Louis/L.A. Rams twice, the Philadelphia Eagles twice and now the Seattle Seahawks twice. Dallas and Pittsburgh have played in three Super Bowls against each other.
  • The Patriots enter this week with the most postseason wins in NFL history and will look to add to that total with a win in Super Bowl LX.
  • The Patriots are 9-0 on the road in 2025, 8-0 in the regular season and 1-0 in the postseason. They are the first team in NFL history to play at least nine games on the road and win them all. Three other teams have won at least nine road games. The 2007 Giants won 10 road games, and the 2020 Buccaneers and 2005 Steelers each won nine, but those teams were not undefeated on the road. The Patriots can become the first team to both win 10 games and be undefeated on the road with a win in Super Bowl LX (including neutral site games).
  • The New England Patriots have won 36 playoff games since Robert Kraft bought the franchise in 1994. The 36 wins rank third among ownership groups in NFL history and are the most by any team since he entered the NFL.
  • Robert Kraft has 36 career postseason wins, which are tied with the Rooney family for the second-most postseason wins in NFL history. With a victory in Super Bowl LX, Kraft will tie the Green Bay Packers with the most postseason wins all-time with 37 wins.
  • Kraft earned his 11th conference championship with the AFC Championship win at Denver. His 11 conference championships are the most by an owner in the Super Bowl era.
  • Mike Vrabel is one of seven head coaches that won a Super Bowl for a team and then became the head coach of that team. Vrabel won three Super Bowls during his seven seasons as a player for the Patriots. The other coaches to win a Super Bowl for a team and then become the head coach for that team are Jerod Mayo (Patriots), Forrest Gregg (Green Bay), Bart Starr (Green Bay), Art Shell (Oakland), Jeff Saturday (Indianapolis) and Jason Garrett (Dallas). Vrabel can become the first of that group to lead his team to a Super Bowl victory.
  • Vrabel became the seventh head coach to lead the team he played for to a Super Bowl berth, joining Don Shula (Super Bowl III with Baltimore), Tom Flores (Super Bowl XV and Super Bowl XVIII with the Raiders), Mike Ditka (Super Bowl XX with Chicago), Sam Wyche (Super Bowl XXIII with Cincinnati), Gary Kubiak (Super Bowl 50 with Denver) and Doug Pederson (Super Bowl LII with Philadelphia).
  • Vrabel is the eighth head coach to lead his team to the Super Bowl in his first season with the team.
  • Vrabel is now one of eight head coaches that played in a Super Bowl and then reached a Super Bowl as a head coach.
  • Vrabel tied George Seifert (17 wins in 1989 with San Francisco) for the most wins by an NFL head coach in his first season with a team, including the postseason. A win in Super Bowl LX will give Vrabel the most wins by a head coach in his first season with a team.
  • WR Stefon Diggs has played in 17 postseason games and has 80 receptions for 982 yards and 5 touchdowns. He needs 18 postseason yards to become the 19th NFL player to reach 1,000 postseason yards. Julian Edelman and Rob Gronkowski are the only Patriots to eclipse the mark. Diggs is currently 20th on the NFL's all-time postseason list for receiving yards. He is currently tied for 12th with 80 postseason receptions and needs 6 postseason receptions to move past Andre Reed (85 postseason receptions) into the top 10 for most postseason receptions in NFL history.
  • Diggs has four career 100-yard receiving games in the postseason and needs one more to become the 10th player with at least five.
  • DT Milton Williams will play in his second consecutive Super Bowl. He played in Super Bowl LIX with Philadelphia last season and helped the Eagles beat Kansas City with 7 total tackles, 2 sacks, 1 forced fumble, 1 fumble recovery and 4 quarterback pressures.
  • QB Drake Maye will join Dan Marino (1984) and Ben Roethlisberger (2005) as the only quarterbacks to start the Super Bowl before their 24th birthday. Maye will be 23 years and 162 days, and only Dan Marino at 23 years and 127 days was younger. A victory in Super Bowl LX will make him the youngest starting quarterback to win the title. Roethlisberger, who was 23 years and 340 days when he won in 2005, is currently the youngest.
  • Maye is the fourth quarterback since 2000 to win each of his first three career playoff starts, joining Tom Brady (won first 10 starts), Joe Burrow (three) and Jake Delhomme (three).
  • Maye is the first quarterback in history to win three games against top-five defenses in a single playoff. The Chargers had the No. 5 defense, the Texans No. 1, and the Broncos No. 2. In Super Bowl LX, he will face the sixth-ranked Seattle Seahawks defense.

BROADCAST INFO

TELEVISION: This week's game will be broadcast by NBC and can be seen in the Boston area on NBC 10 Boston. Mike Tirico will handle play-by-play duties with Cris Collinsworth as the color analyst. Melissa Stark and Kaylee Hartung will work from the sidelines. The game will be produced by Robert Hyland and directed by Drew Esocoff.

NATIONAL RADIO: This week's game will be broadcast to a national audience on Westwood One. Kevin Harlan will call the game with Kurt Warner providing analysis. Laura Okmin will work from the sidelines.

LOCAL RADIO: 98.5 The Sports Hub is the flagship station for the Patriots Radio Network. A complete listing of the network's 33 stations can be found here. Play-by-play broadcaster Bob Socci will call the action along with former Patriots quarterback Scott Zolak, who will provide color analysis. The games are produced by Marc Cappello.

For information on how to stream the game please visit our Ways to Watch guide.

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