The Color of Victory: Betting on the Gatorade Bath at the Super Bowl

For two glorious weeks every year, we think about the color of an NFL team's Gatorade. The Gatorade bath color and coin toss are among the two most popular Super Bowl prop bets every year

The Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event in the United States, and it's a great time to bet on some props.

BetMGM has a huge menu of props for the big game, and we've picked out some of the most interesting and popular early props.

The coin toss is always a fun bet, and there's never a betting favorite. People prefer tails though. At BetMGM, 53% of the money bet on the coin toss already is on tails. The history says that tails has come up 30 times and heads has come up 28 times in the first 58 Super Bowl coin tosses.

Does that mean heads is due? Or that tails is clearly dominating the race? It probably just means that this year's coin toss is a 50/50 proposition, and that it will once again be among the more popular bets for the game.

The Gatorade color is another popular bet, and it's always interesting to see what color the winning coach gets doused in.

Purple took over as the favorite after some action on it, moving from +350 to +250. That actually happened.

After yellow/green/lime was dumped on Eagles coach Nick Sirianni at the end of the NFC championship game, that color has gotten the most bets in the early action on the prop. At BetMGM, 26% of the bets made on the Gatorade color was on yellow/green/lime. Adjust accordingly.

There are plenty of traditional props on the players in Super Bowl LIX (and the basic betting lines of Chiefs -1.5 and the over/under of 49.5).

The passing yards for Mahomes is 252.5, passing touchdowns is 1.5 (with -175 odds on the over), interceptions at 0.5, completions at 24.5 and rushing yards at 40.5, among other props. The rushing yards got a big bump from the opening number of 28.5. The three most popular Mahomes props are over 11.5 for longest rush, over 35.5 as the longest completion and over 5.5 rushing attempts. All three of those overs have gotten 98% of the bets early on. Mahomes over 5.5 rushing attempts is a top-five most popular bet already for Super Bowl props.

It should be no surprise that Barkley is a popular figure for Super Bowl prop bettors

Barkley's rushing total is 113.5, which is significantly less than his regular season average of 125.3. His rushing attempts is 21.5, longest rush is 23.5 and the odds of him scoring a touchdown are a whopping -200 (bet $200 to win $100).

Bettors are thinking Barkley will get a lot of action during the Super Bowl. The third and fourth most popular props, in terms of bets, are Barkley over 113.5 rushing yards and over 23.5 yards for his longest rush.

A lot of bets will come in at BetMGM between now and kickoff, but the two most popular prop bets early on are a bit of a surprise.

The most popular prop, in terms of number of bets, is Eagles tight end Dallas Goedert over 48.5 receiving yards. He had more than 48.5 yards in just six of his 13 games this season, including playoffs. Yet, 99% of the bets on Goedert's total are on the over.

The second-most popular prop is on Chiefs rookie receiver Xavier Worthy's rushing yards. The over of 4.5 rushing yards has 99% of the bets. Bettors assume Worthy will get at least one carry on an end around or reverse.