What Does the Future of College Football Betting in the United States Look Like?
The sports betting industry continues to grow at an alarming rate in the United States, and college football is helping to drive this growth. Football has turned into the top sport to bet on this country, with the National Football League obviously being the most popular. College football gets things kicked off on Saturday each weekend and gets bettors ready for NFL Sundays. The real question is, what does the future of college football betting look like in this country, and how can it continue to grow?
More and more states across the country are beginning to legalize sports betting, and the opportunity to make more money is a huge reason why. There are still some huge question marks in the states where sports betting has been legalized, and most of them center around what to do with collegiate athletics.
College athletics are considered amateur sports, and therefore some people don’t believe that they should be legalized in the same way that professional sports are.
Almost all of the states that have launched sports betting up to this point have not placed a ban on collegiate athletics, although some have banned games or events that take place within their state. In West Virginia, college football was the driving force behind legalizing sports betting, as the state does not have any professional sports teams.
Both New Jersey and Pennsylvania have reported that betting on college football is one of the most popular forms of betting at their sportsbooks. Betting on college football in Nevada has been extremely popular for the past decade, and the numbers keep getting bigger each year.
The future of college football betting looks extremely bright, and more states are going to make it legal in the very near future.
NCAA Trying to Fight Back
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has voiced its opinion on sports betting, and it wants to do whatever it can to keep it out of its game. The leaders of the NCAA have stated that they are in favor of a continued federal ban on all collegiate sporting events, but the Supreme Court has other ideas and opinions.
Each state has the power to legalize collegiate sports betting, and so the NCAA has now begun fighting against the legislature in each state separately.
The NCAA actually fought with the NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB in the case that made it all the way to the Supreme Court in 2018. The NCAA is almost just as powerful as the four major professional sports franchises, and it wanted to make sure that its opinion was heard.
The Supreme Court ruled against these five giant companies, and the professional sports franchises have now started to buy into the whole sports betting industry. The NCAA appears to be standing firm in its beliefs, and it has no interest in becoming a sports betting partner.
Money Will Rule Over Integrity
The biggest reason that the NCAA is trying to fight so hard to keep sports betting out of its games is that it believes it will ruin the integrity of their game. The NCAA still believes that they are operating a pure sport, even though they are robbing student-athletes out of billions of dollars each year.
States across the country don’t really worry about the integrity of the sport, and they are just focused on making money. The NCAA can do and say what it wants, but the states just have too much money to lose by not legalizing betting on collegiate sports.
College football has turned into one of the most popular sports in the world, and the sports betting industry is going to capitalize on this popularity.
