Super Bowl XLIV: Indianapolis Colts (16-2) vs. New Orleans Saints (15-3), 6:25 p.m., Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens, Fla.

The Skinny: The game that many predicted, and certainly envisioned, when both teams were unbeaten after 13 weeks, is here. The top seeds in each conference with the best and most productive quarterbacks in each conference. For the second time in the past four years, Peyton Manning gets a chance to follow a Steelers' Super Bowl title with one of his own, and there is little reason to think that he won't. The Saints will try to hurry and hit Manning, just as they did Kurt Warner and Brett Favre. But nobody adjusts his protection better than the NFL's MVP, and he will eventually figure out the Saints schemes and make them pay for their aggression. Brett Favre did the same thing, except the Vikings turned the ball over seven times. Otherwise, their score in the NFC title game would have looked much like this one will be.

Prediction: Colts, 37-24

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