Ranking every Super Bowl champ since 2000: 2024 Eagles #1

| 2016 World University American Football Championships - Monterrey | 02/16/2025

The Philadelphia Eagles‘ 40-22 win over the Kansas City Chiefs emphatically answered the question of which team was the NFL’s best in 2024. The Eagles’ dominance over the Chiefs also catapults them to the top of the list of every Super Bowl champion since the turn of the century.

The Eagles made plenty of history in 2024. They became the first Super Bowl-winning team since the 1975 Steelers to have more running than passing yards (including the postseason). The Eagles are also the first team to defeat a team that had previously defeated them in the Super Bowl. Saquon Barkley capped off his historic season by joining Hall of Famers Emmitt Smith and Terrell Davis as the only rushing champs to win the big game. Oh, and did we mention yet that the Eagles flattened a Chiefs team that was one win from becoming the first team to win three straight Super Bowls?

The 2024 Eagles boasted a top-10 scoring offense and the NFL’s second-ranked scoring defense, a unit that overwhelmed Patrick Mahomes and the rest of the Chiefs offense in the Super Bowl. The Eagles’ legendary defensive performance was complemented by its offense, which featured the NFL’s best quartet at the skill positions and a powerful offensive line that had its way with seemingly everyone in 2024.

Philadelphia is No. 1, but where did every other Super Bowl champion end up on our list? Let’s find out.

25. 2001 Patriots

The 2001 Patriots go down in history as New England’s first Super Bowl champion and one that authored one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history. The Patriots were not a dominant team, but they had an opportunistic, hard-hitting defense and a young, clutch quarterback in Tom Brady, who engineered the game-winning drive that finished off the heavily favored Rams. They also had a dynamic playmaker in Troy Brown, who in addition to being nearly a 1,200-yard receiver was the NFL’s best punt returner that season.

The 2001 Patriots scored just three offensive touchdowns in the playoffs, one in each postseason win, which is one of the main reasons why they are ranked here.

24. 2000 Ravens

  • Overall record: 16-4
  • Super Bowl: Def. Giants 34-7

Led by future Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Lewis, Baltimore had a historically dominant defense, a punishing running game (led by then-rookie and future 2,000-yard rusher Jamal Lewis) and a dynamic returner in Jermaine Lewis. The Ravens were great in some elements, but they lacked an elite passing attack that contributed to the unit undergoing a five-game drought without a touchdown during the season.

Baltimore’s defense was awesome, but it didn’t face the toughest of competition that season, especially from a quarterback standpoint (Troy Aikman was the only future Hall of Fame quarterback the team faced that season, and he and the Cowboys were on a steep decline at that point). That’s one of the reasons why the 2000 Ravens are not ranked higher.

23. 2021 Rams

  • Overall record: 16-5
  • Super Bowl: Def. Bengals 23-20

The Rams won each of their final three games by three points, including their victory over the Bengals in Super Bowl LVI. Los Angeles’ Super Bowl win was spearheaded by three-time Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald, quarterback Matthew Stafford and wideout Cooper Kupp, who capped off his brilliant season with an MVP performance in the Super Bowl.

Along with big games from Kupp and Donald, the Rams’ Super Bowl win included a controversial holding call against Bengals linebacker Logan Wilson that helped set up Kupp’s game-winning score. The Rams’ lack of dominance hurt them when compared to other recent champions.

22. 2011 Giants

For a second time in four years, the Giants upset the favored Patriots in the Super Bowl. New York’s upset was impressive, but it came against a weaker Patriots team this time around.

Their Super Bowl win may not have been as impressive, but the Giants’ run through the NFC playoffs certainly was. New York shocked the 15-1 Packers in the divisional round before beating a 49ers team that represented the NFC in the following year’s Super Bowl. Quarterback Eli Manning was even better this postseason than he was in the 2007 playoffs. In four games, Manning completed 65% of his passes with nine touchdowns and just one pick. He averaged 305 passing yards per playoff game.

Against the Patriots, Manning went 30 of 40 for 296 yards and a touchdown. His 46-yard dime to Mario Manningham set up the game-winning score.

21. 2018 Patriots

  • Overall record: 14-5
  • Super Bowl: Def. Rams 13-3

The sixth and final Patriots Super Bowl-winning team seemed more mortal than the franchise’s previous five championship squads, especially after they dropped consecutive late-season games to Miami and Pittsburgh. But the Patriots showed they were still the Patriots in the playoffs, whipping the Chargers in the divisional round before edging the Chiefs in overtime in a classic AFC Championship game.

In the Super Bowl, the Patriots held the Rams to the lowest point tally in Super Bowl history (along with the Dolphins, who also scored just three points back in Super Bowl VI). Tom Brady made several big plays down the stretch, while Julian Edelman was the game’s MVP with 10 grabs for 141 yards.

20. 2015 Broncos

Denver slumped late in the regular season before rallying off wins over the Steelers, Broncos and Panthers in the playoffs. The Broncos’ postseason charge was led by their defense, specifically Super Bowl MVP Von Miller. Denver got just enough plays from its offense and quarterback Peyton Manning, who retired following the Broncos’ Super Bowl win.

Speaking of Manning, his second-to-last NFL game was Denver’s 20-18 win over the Patriots in one of the most thrilling AFC title games of all time. The Broncos were the only AFC team during this time period that defeated the Patriots in the playoffs, which is one of the reasons why they cracked the top 20.

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