Everything is bigger (hugantic!) in New Orleans for the Super Bowl!  Feb 2, 2012; New Orleans, LA, USA; General view of Super Bowl XLVII roman numerals on a barge on the Mississippi River with the Crescent City Connection bridge (Greater New Orleans bridge) at Woldenberg Park in advance of Super Bowl XLVII between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

Super Bowl 2013 is upon us and it promises to be a good one.  Whether you like the San Francisco 49ers or the Baltimore Ravens, you’ll need to know what’s what heading into the game.  For that we’ve got the Super Bowl 2013 Kickoff time, live stream, radio and TV coverage, and everything else you’d like to know about the game.

What: Super Bowl XLVII

Who: Baltimore Ravens (AFC) vs. San Francisco 49ers (NFC)

When: Sunday February 3, 2013

Kickoff: 6:30 p.m., ET

Where: New Orleans, Louisiana

Stadium Info: The Mercedes-Benz Superdome

National Network: CBS

Baltimore, Maryland: CBS WJZ-TV 13

San Francisco, California: CBS KPIX-TV 5

Radio: WJZ-AM 1300 Baltimore, WJZ-FM 105.7 Catonsvle/Baltimore. KNBR-AM 680 San Francisco

Live Stream: CBS Sports: Super Bowl XLVII live stream

Get your party going, grab a beer, eat some wings, and enjoy what should most certainly be a national holiday!

Jan 29, 2013; New Orleans, LA, USA; San Francisco 49ers outside linebacker Aldon Smith (99) addresses the press during media day in preparation for Super Bowl XLVII against the Baltimore Ravens at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports

Defense wins championships.

It’s not just a saying any more.

Nate Silver, the analyst/statistician who most accurately predicted the 2012 US elections, has weighed in on the Super Bowl and what he finds is that defense wins championships.

For that reason, he’s picking the San Francisco 49ers to win it over the Baltimore Ravens.

While I’m certain Silver could guess the points scored as well, he doesn’t make that jump in his New York Times article.

Silver found that the teams with the best defenses tended to win the Super Bowl more, but that doesn’t mean the Ravens can’t pull off an upset:

…while the 49ers had the better offense and defense, the Ravens had the best special teams in the league this year. If they do pull off the upset, on the heels of Steve Weatherford’s game-changing performance for the Giants in last year’s Super Bowl, perhaps it will be time for a new cliché: punters win championships. But don’t count on that.

Special teams can always be a big deal and if John Harbaugh’s expert unit does make a major difference in the game, then maybe the next best prediction will be an increase of emphasis on special teams from a head coaching and statistician standpoint.

Jan 29, 2013; New Orleans, LA, USA; Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk (77) is interviewed during media day in preparation for Super Bowl XLVII against the San Francisco 49ers at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

There’s nothing like the expert opinion of the broadcast company who is hosting the Super Bowl.  The experts for CBS have announced who they think will win the game and, despite the odds favoring the San Francisco 49ers, it’s the Baltimore Ravens who come out on top.

The only two to dissent were Dave Richard and the prediction machine.  Everyone else is defying the odds and going with Joe Flacco and Ray Lewis.  Maybe seeing Lewis and Ed Reed go out on top is just too good of a story to pass up.

Curiously, only two of the eight (not counting the prediction machine) picked Baltimore to win the AFC Championship.  They won over a lot of support after beating the New England Patriots in Foxboro.  CBS’ experts picked the Niners six to two over the Atlanta Falcons.

Here are the picks:

Pete Prisco:  Ravens

Clark Judge:  Ravens

Mike Freeman:  Ravens

Jason La Canfora:  Ravens

Dave Richard:  Niners

Will Brinson:  Ravens

Josh Katzowitz:  Ravens

Ryan Wilson:  Ravens

Prediction Machine:  Niners