Super Bowl 2022: What to know about the NFL’s pinnacle event this year – Yahoo Sports

When is the Super Bowl 2022? Where is it? What number are we on? Who are the BetMGM favorites? Answers to all that and more below ...

Super Bowl LVI will be played on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022.

Super Bowl LVI will be played at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. Although It will be the eighth Super Bowl held in the Greater Los Angeles area, it will be the first in Inglewood.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers faced the Kansas City Chiefs. It was the Buccaneers' second Super Bowl appearance and the Chiefs' fourth Super Bowl appearance.

The Buccaneers defeated the Chiefs, 31-9, in Super Bowl LV in Tampa, Fla.

You can stream it live on the Yahoo Sports app! Super Bowl LVI will be televised by NBC, which was originally scheduled to broadcast the 2021 Super Bowl, with CBS having the rights to the 2022 Super Bowl. But the two broadcast networks opted to swap the game rights so that NBC could have both the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics in 2022.

According to BetMGM, the Rams (-200) are listed as a -4.5 point favorite to win Super Bowl LVI. The Bengals are at (+165).

Kickoff will take place at approximately 6:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, Feb. 13.

Super Bowl 2022, which is 56 (or LVI) numberically, will be played at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Feb. 13. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports)

This is the 56th Super Bowl, or LVI in Roman numerals.

The Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals will square off in the Super Bowl.

The Rams beat the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship game, and the Bengals beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship game.

Super Bowl LV in 2021 was watched by 96.4 million total viewers, which includes both TV and online ratings combined. Although online numbers were the strongest in history, TV viewership was reportedly down 9 percent from Super Bowl LIV in 2020 and registered the lowest TV ratings since 2006 (Steelers over Seahawks).

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The highest-rated Super Bowl ever was a 49.1 mark for 49ers-Bengals (XVI) in 1982. The viewership record was set in 2015 for Super Bowl XLIX (Patriots-Seahawks) in 2015, with 114.4 million viewers.

Twelve NFL teams have never won a Super Bowl the Atlanta Falcons, Arizona Cardinals, Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars, Los Angeles Chargers, Minnesota Vikings and Tennessee Titans.

The game will be broadcast on NBC.

Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar will perform at Super Bowl LVI, roughly between 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. ET.

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