Sports Anchor Correctly Predicts Unusual Super Bowl Score, Explains How He Did It

If you say you correctly predicted the final score of Super Bowl LVIII then there is a pretty good chance that you’re lying.

Because after almost 18,000 NFL games prior to Sunday’s game there had only been 12 games that finished with a score of 25-22.

Really, the only way to prove that you made that prediction would be for it to have been captured on video.

Luckily for Stan Smith, sports anchor for KLBK News in Lubbock, Texas, who somehow did correctly predict the 25-22 final score for Super Bowl LVIII, it was.

“I’m going to go with 25-22, a little unusual,” Smith told his fellow news anchors on Feb. 9, adding that he was picking Kansas City.

“Do I have the script?” he asked on X immediately after Super Bowl LVIII ended.

So… how on Earth did he do it?

Smith told Awful Announcing on Monday that those numbers came up during a discussion on Pardon My Take in which legendary broadcaster Chris Berman mentioned it.

“I didn’t know he was going to ask that, so when he asked that, I had to say, ’25-22,'” Smith admitted.

Of course, knowing how few games have ever finished 25-22, Stan Smith said he felt a little stupid afterwards.

That would change Sunday night.

“When it gets to be 19-19 heading into overtime, I was thinking, ‘Okay, it’s getting a little weird now,'” he revealed.

As if that wasn’t spooky enough, Smith said he also played some squares for the big game and had the Chiefs with 5 and the 49ers with 2.

Naturally, many people on social media are now seeking out Smith for the answers to more sports questions.

“Will the Cowboys win the Super Bowl in my lifetime??” read one comment on X.

“Hello NFL, this is the guy that stole the script,” another X user wrote.

“NOT ONLY CAN WE GET SNOW TOTALS RIGHT ON KLBK, BUT WE CAN CORRECTLY PREDICT THE SCORE AND WINNER OF THE SUPER BOWL,” wrote KLBK News Chief Meteorologist Jacob Riley.

Note to self: watch KLBK News before every major sporting event.