The final horn at Super Bowl LX confirmed what Seattle had chased for over a decade: the Seahawks beat the New England Patriots 29-13 in the championship game played on February 8, 2026. Jason Myers set a Super Bowl record by converting four field goals in the win. On the other side of the ball, New England’s rookie quarterback Drake Maye never found any rhythm, and the Patriots managed only 48 passing yards in the first half as Seattle’s pass rush closed in on him repeatedly. It was the kind of lopsided, physical performance that turns a championship game into a statement, and for Seattle, the statement was overdue.
Seattle’s win delivered the franchise its second Super Bowl title, arriving twelve years after its first, which came in the 2013 season. New England, by contrast, still holds six Super Bowl titles from 2001, 2003, 2004, 2014, 2016 and 2018, and the trip to Super Bowl LX marked the Patriots’ twelfth appearance in the game, an outright record in the NFL. Those numbers frame the rematch in blunt terms: one of the league’s most decorated franchises walked into February carrying a heavier championship résumé than almost anyone, yet still walked out having lost the head-to-head battle that mattered most that day.
Zoom out to every meeting between these two franchises, in the regular season and in the playoffs combined, and Seattle now leads the all-time series 12-9, having gone 11-8 against New England in the regular season and splitting their two playoff meetings 1-1. That postseason tie only exists because of what happened in Super Bowl LX itself; before kickoff in February, the Patriots still held a 1-0 edge in playoff meetings between the two teams, a mark set eleven years earlier in Arizona.
That earlier meeting was Super Bowl XLIX, played on February 1, 2015, in Glendale, and it went New England’s way 28-24 in a game still ranked eighth on the list of the 100 greatest games in NFL history. Tom Brady threw four touchdown passes that night, but the game turned on defense: with roughly 20 seconds left, cornerback Malcolm Butler intercepted a goal-line pass from Russell Wilson to seal the win for New England. For eleven years, that interception stood as the last word between the two franchises on football’s biggest stage, until Seattle answered it in February.
The rivalry had already been trending toward Seattle well before the rematch kicked off. The teams’ last regular-season meeting, on September 15, 2024, went to Seattle 23-20 in overtime at Gillette Stadium, and it capped three straight regular-season losses for New England against the Seahawks. By the time Super Bowl LX arrived, Seattle carried an active four-game winning streak over New England into the rematch.
The rivalry has swung both ways over its full history. The very first meeting between these franchises, on October 9, 1977, went to New England in a 31-0 rout, still the most lopsided result either side has produced against the other. Seattle answered over a decade later, opening a run of five straight wins over New England that began with a 24-3 victory on September 24, 1989, and lasted until October 24, 1993, the longest winning streak either team has held in the series.
Super Bowl LX carried historical weight beyond the head-to-head math, too. According to the Patriots’ own recap of the game, the rematch marked the fourth time New England has played a Super Bowl rematch against the same opponent, out of ten total rematches in league history, a total exceeded only by Dallas and Pittsburgh.
Seattle’s defense was central to the outcome, holding New England to that 48-yard first half and forcing Maye into pressure amid the kind of situational data increasingly shaping how coordinators call games across the league. “That was a remarkable game by our defense,” Seattle coach Mike Macdonald said afterward, according to NFL.com. The result also arrived against the backdrop of a league reshaped by broader structural change, with the Seahawks now standing as the team every rival has to solve.
Macdonald framed the win as validation of an approach that has defined his tenure in Seattle rather than a one-off result against a familiar opponent. “We use the term ‘chasing edges’ here in Seattle. You have to live like that, you know, you can’t be copying everybody else. We know that we’re target No. 1 now,” he said.
