Now that the 2026 NFL Draft is in the rearview mirror, it's time to look forward to the 2026-27 season. To get a sense of which teams are loathed most by state, RotoWire.com, where we review the best sports betting apps, used Google Keyword Planner to search data and identify each state's most-popular team and assigned that team's traditional rival as "most hated." We layered in multi-year X/Twitter sentiment, then applied divisional rivalry logic to factor into the selections.
The result is a 50-state composite grounded in real fan-behavior data and corrected for rivalry intensity. Here is an interactive graphic with full results:
Which NFL Teams Are Hated The Most?
In what might come as a bit of a surprise, two of the three NFL teams that scored the most hate nationally were ones that haven't contended for a title in years.
The Las Vegas Raiders and New York Jets shared top honors by being named most hated in six states apiece. The Green Bay Packers were the other team claiming six states where they are the top NFL enemy.
At DraftKings Sportsbook, the Jets and Raiders both have -900 odds to miss the playoffs in the 2026-27 season and +600 odds to qualify for the postseason.
The Raiders haven't won a postseason game since 2002 and that 23-year drought is the second-longest in the NFL, behind the Miami Dolphins (25 years). The Jets last reached the playoffs in 2010 and that 15-year active streak is not only the longest in the NFL, but in the four traditional major North American sports.
The Packers' standing makes a bit more sense. Green Bay has won the third-most games of any franchise this century (260), behind only the New England Patriots (284) and Pittsburgh Steelers (265). And Green Bay still owns more NFL championships (12) of any franchise, dating to their first in 1929.
Customers using the BetMGM Sportsbook bonus code can get the Packers at +750 odds to win the NFC title and reach Super Bowl 61 in February 2027. That's third on the operator's board.
Falcons, Cowboys, Eagles and 49ers Also Among Most Hated NFL Teams
The only other NFL club to score top hating rights across five or more states was the Atlanta Falcons, with five. That's another surprise, given that the NFC South stalwarts rank 16th leaguewide in wins (205) since 2000, with zero playoff berths since reaching the NFC Divisional Round in 2017.
Three more NFC teams – the Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers – were the most hated teams in four states apiece. The AFC's Pittsburgh Steelers were the most hated team in three states (Kentucky, Maryland and Ohio), all of which have an AFC North rival or one nearby.
Looking at this year's Super Bowl LXI odds board with bet365 Sportsbook, the most hated team with the best standing overall is the Packers. Green Bay is listed at +1600 to hoist the Lombardi Trophy for the first time since Super Bowl XLV in 2011, tied for sixth on the board.
Regardless of which NFL clubs are supported (or hated), each of the 50 states that make up the U.S. have ample time to sharpen their axes. The league's regular season is still more than five months from kickoff, but that just leaves plenty of time for folks to study Super Bowl odds with RotoWire.
