Everything points to the Seattle Seahawks winning the Super Bowl come Sunday night.

Consider the following:

This is the 10th time the two No. 1 seeds have met in the Super Bowl since the NFL went to a seeding format in 1975. The NFC team has won seven of the previous nine.

Advantage, Seattle.

This is the fifth time the NFL’s top-ranked offense has faced the NFL’s top-ranked defense in the Super Bowl. The defensive team prevailed in three of the previous four.

Advantage, Seattle.

This is the 16th time the NFL’s top-ranked defense reached the Super Bowl. Its record is 12-3 in the previous 15.

Advantage, Seattle.

This is the fourth time the quarterback who led the league in passing yards and touchdown passes — Denver’s Peyton Manning — has reached the Super Bowl. The other three — Dan Marino, Kurt Warner and Tom Brady — all lost.

Advantage, Seattle.

It’s time to buck the odds.

Denver will win Super Bowl XLVIII — simply because of Manning.

It’s his stage. It’s his time. It’s only fitting that he complete one of the most incredulous individual comeback stories in the history of professional sports.

The man had three surgical procedures done on his neck. He sat out for a year. There was a time, while Manning was trying to regain strength in his arm, a pass 20 yards in length would simply flutter to the ground.

Even the Indianapolis Colts — with whom Manning built his Hall of Fame caliber career — decided it was time to move on and cut him loose.

A number of teams wanted Manning. It took another Hall of Fame quarterback, John Elway, to convince him to come to Denver.

The rest is history as Manning’s made history — and has a chance to make more history. He threw for 5,477 yards and 55 touchdowns this season. Both are NFL records.

In a game in which many thought he would “choke,” Manning carved up NewEngland with precision passing and out-dueled Brady to get to the Super Bowl.

Now he has the chance to become the first quarterback to ever lead two different franchises to Super Bowl triumphs.

Sure, any kind of bad weather on Sunday favors Seattle. The Seahawks’ pass rush is fierce, their secondary as good as there is in football.

But Manning is Manning.

He has numerous weapons and the mental ability to pick out the open man and get the ball out of his hands before the rush can get to him.

Marshawn Lynch is capable of plowing through the Broncos defense and controlling the pace of this game.

But Denver will score at least three touchdowns. Seattle probably won’t.

My choice is Denver, 28-17, with Manning, naturally, taking home the MVP trophy.

It will be a storybook ending to a storybook season — and maybe a storybook career.

John Enrietto is sports editor of the Butler Eagle