Week seven of the 2011 NFL season allows bettors who have yet to make a futures selection on the Super Bowl 46 winner, a better idea of who is for real or who is pretending to compete for the title. With roughly eight weeks left in the 2011 Breeders Cup betting, there are plenty of teams that we did not expect to still be in the mix, that find themselves in the mix. Here is a look at the latest Super Bowl updates using a fine mix of bookie software agents.

Detroit Lions  (12 to one)  – Before the season started, the Detroit Lions were one of a handful of teams that nobody in their right mind would have considered a plausible Super Bowl threat in any year, especially coming out of a lockout. However, as Matthew Stafford and Megatron and their peers have shown, the Detroit Lions are for real, and they could be a contender for years to come. Entering week seven of the NFL season, the Lions are an impressive five and one. To put that into perspective, consider that from 2000 to 2009 the Lions were lucky if they could string three wins together for the entire season. Now with only eight weeks left, the Lions have an opportunity to show fans and critics alike, that they are for real and that unlike the Detroit Tigers, they can get the job done in the playoffs.

Buffalo Bills (25 to one) – Add the Buffalo Bills into the same category as Detroit for teams nobody in their right mind believed would ever make it to the Super Bowl in the next decade. The Bills have been men on a mission this season, as former Cincinnati Bengals whipping boy Ryan Fitzpatrick has looked like a younger version of Peyton Manning as he’s guided the Bills to an impressive record.