Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Enjoy your Super Bowl celebration, New York Giants fans. The odds say your team won't repeat as National Football League champion.

The Giants, who held a parade in New York City yesterday after beating New England 17-14 three days ago in the NFL title game, are rated the seventh-most-likely team to win the game next Feb. 1 in Tampa, Florida, according to Las Vegas Sports Consultants, which advises Nevada sports books on betting lines.

New York was given 12-1 odds to become the ninth team to repeat as Super Bowl champions. The Patriots, at 5-2, have the most favorable odds for next season after failing to complete an undefeated season with the title-game loss.

The Indianapolis Colts and Dallas Cowboys are tied as second-favorites at 6-1, meaning a $10 winning bet on either team would pay $60. Green Bay is fourth at 7-1, followed by San Diego and Jacksonville at 10-1.

``It's just one of those things where they got hot at the right time and they were comfortable playing on the road,'' Mike Seba, a senior oddsmaker for Las Vegas Sports Consultants, said of the Giants in a telephone interview. ``It wasn't like they were blowing teams out. They were just getting there. One play here or there and they could have been out of it.''

After beating Tampa Bay 24-14 in their playoff opener, the Giants defeated Dallas 21-17, beat Green Bay 23-20 in overtime and scored a touchdown on Eli Manning's 13-yard pass to Plaxico Burress with 35 seconds remaining to overtake New England.

Road Winners

New York won an NFL-record 10 games on the road before the neutral-field win over the Patriots.

``Just because you have success and you win a championship doesn't mean you stop for a year, or you become content with what you've done,'' Manning, who was voted the Super Bowl's Most Valuable Player, said at a news conference. ``If anything, it should make you strive even harder or more to try and get here again. You've had this feeling, you've had this taste and you don't want it to leave.''

The Patriots, who won the Super Bowl in 2002 and were the last NFL team to repeat as champions in 2004 and 2005, would have been first NFL team since the 1972 Miami Dolphins to have an undefeated season. They finished at 18-1.

``It's pretty much over, time to move on,'' Patriots coach Bill Belichick said yesterday on a media conference call. ``I'm not going to sit here and dwell on anything good or bad that happened in the past. It's over, it is what it is and we played our last game of the 2007 season.''

New England will need to overcome a recent NFL trend of poor play following Super Bowl defeats. The Seattle Seahawks, who lost the title game to Pittsburgh in 2006, are the only team in the last nine years to reach the playoffs the season after losing the championship.

``There's something to that, it's just such a devastating loss,'' Seba said. ``But I think, with New England as talented as they are, it would be an unbelievable disappointment if they did not make the playoffs next year.''

To contact the reporter on this story: Mason Levinson in New York at mlevinson@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: February 6, 2008 01:02 EST