Super Bowl LX — 2025 Season

Result

Super Bowl MVP

Kenneth Walker III, RB, Seattle Seahawks

Starting lineups

Starting offense

Starting defense

Note: This is the most recently played Super Bowl in this build (Feb 8, 2026) and was researched via live web sources only, not cross-checked against pre-existing knowledge like the other nine games in this round. Both teams' defensive fronts are listed with only 2-3 down linemen plus 4 off-ball linebackers, reading as a nickel/sub-package front rather than a clean base 4-3 or 3-4 - reported as sourced rather than force-fit into a traditional scheme label.

Box score

Passing

Rushing

Receiving

Game context

Super Bowl LX gave the Seattle Seahawks their second championship in franchise history, twelve years after their Super Bowl XLVIII rout of Denver, and it followed a similar blueprint: a stifling, opportunistic Seattle defense — nicknamed the "Dark Side" during the 2025 season — smothering an overmatched opponent from start to finish. Seattle and New England met at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, the same venue that hosted Super Bowl 50, with the Patriots making their first Super Bowl appearance of the post-Brady, post-Belichick era behind young quarterback Drake Maye. The Seahawks controlled the game from the outset, building a 12-0 lead through three quarters entirely on field goals — three of them from kicker Jason Myers — while New England's offense repeatedly stalled against Seattle's disguised pressure and physical secondary. Running back Kenneth Walker III was the workhorse of Seattle's game plan, grinding out 135 yards on 27 carries and controlling the clock while denying New England's defense any rest. In the fourth quarter, Seattle finally broke the game open, with a touchdown pass to running back Ke'Shawn Vaughn extending the lead to 19-0. New England answered its lone sustained scoring threat of the night with a touchdown catch from Mack Hollins to cut the deficit to 19-7, briefly threatening a comeback. But Seattle's defense, which had somewhat paradoxically led the NFL in giveaways during the regular season, turned the ball over zero times across its entire postseason run, and delivered the decisive blow when linebacker Uchenna Nwosu intercepted Maye and returned it 45 yards for a touchdown. New England managed one more score, but Seattle closed out a 29-13 win, with Myers's five field goals setting a new Super Bowl record for a kicker. Kenneth Walker III was named Super Bowl MVP for his ball-control rushing performance and his role in wearing down New England's front seven over four quarters, an old-school, run-heavy formula that stood in contrast to the pass-driven offenses that had defined most recent championship games. Maye, in his second NFL season and playing in his first Super Bowl, finished 27 of 43 for 295 yards and two touchdowns but was intercepted twice and sacked repeatedly behind a New England offensive line that struggled with Seattle's pass rush all night. The win capped a Seattle roster built around a retooled, opportunistic defense and a physical run game under head coach Mike Macdonald, in just his second season leading the franchise, and gave the Seahawks their second Lombardi Trophy. For New England, the loss closed out a surprising worst-to-first turnaround season but left the young, rebuilding Patriots short of the franchise's first post-Brady championship. Played before 70,823 fans, Super Bowl LX is remembered as a defensive and ground-game showcase in an era otherwise dominated by pass-first offenses.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Super Bowl LX
• ESPN: Seahawks 29, Patriots 13 box score
• CBS Sports: Super Bowl 2026 MVP - Kenneth Walker III