The 2025 UFL season is less than two weeks from kicking off on March 28—the follow-up campaign of the merged XFL-USFL league sees an interconference battle with the St. Louis Battlehawks squaring off with the Houston Roughnecks in the UFL's first Friday night telecast on FOX.
There have been some changes around the margins for several of the UFL's eight teams. However, a year after the USFL and XFL condensed from 16 teams to 8, there is a lot less turnover and more continuity heading into the 2025 season.
The constant in Spring Pro Football since 2022 has been the Birmingham Stallions. They have won three straight league championships, the first outdoor pro football team to accomplish that feat in the United States since the Green Packers of the '60s. The Kansas City Chiefs fell short of matching that accomplishment in their Super Bowl LIX loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.
Skip Holtz's stellar Stallions squad is looking to win its fourth straight title, and the oddsmakers predictably have them as the UFL's best bet to win it all. BetMGM, FanDuel, DraftKings, and others are all on board with Birmingham as the clear-cut favorite.
BetMGM has Birmingham as the odds-on UFL favorite, with St. Louis having the next-best shot to usurp them. The DC Defenders, who made the XFL Championship game as a 9-1 team two years ago but missed last year's postseason with a 4-6 mark, are a preseason darkhorse to hoist the UFL trophy. Last season's runner-up, San Antonio, has the same odds at +600.
Predictably, Memphis and Houston, the two teams that combined for three wins last season, face the longest odds of doing the unthinkable.
2025 UFL Championship Winner
Birmingham Stallions: +225 (bet $10 to win $32.50 total)
St. Louis Battlehawks: +375 (bet $10 to win $47.50 total)
D.C. Defenders: +600 (bet $10 to win $70 total)
San Antonio Brahmas: +600 (bet $10 to win $70 total)
Michigan Panthers: +650 (bet $10 to win $75 total)
Arlington Renegades: +1100 (bet $10 to win $120 total)
Memphis Showboats: +1400 (bet $10 to win $150 total)
Houston Roughnecks: +1800 (bet $10 to win $190 total)