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Americans Love to Bet on Sports, Especially Football

Scott Morris | September 10, 2015

Americans love to bet. It is expected that over $95 billion will be wagered by Americans between the NFL and college football this season, according to a report released this week by the American Gaming Association.

Another study showed that a legal sports betting market in the U.S. would be the world’s largest or over five times as large as England’s currently is.

Betting operators are expected to earn over $12.4 billion this year. Comparing that to the NFL, which should earn revenue of $12 billion with $7.2 billion shared amongst 32 teams, one can see that sports betting revenue in the U.S. is as large as the country’s biggest league.

What is deemed as illegal betting is reaching greater heights than ever before and the American Gaming Association blames the federal ban on tradition sports betting outside Nevada as the problem.

Nevada remains the only state that offers complete sports betting. The sportsbooks in the state won more than $227 million on an overall handle of $3.9 billion last year on sports betting.

New Jersey currently is deadlocked with professional sports leagues and the NCAA in its push to legalize on a statewide basis sports betting.

Parlay cards, which are mini lottery cards centered on the picking of a few games, are currently legal in some other states.

Adam Silver the commissioner of the NBA wrote an editorial piece in the New York Times that called for professional leagues to legalize all regular sports betting. Rob Manfred the new commissioner of Major League Baseball said his league needs to look at sports betting with a new set of fresh eyes.

Wagering on sports will not go away and has become increasingly more popular especially on offshore sportsbooks online that allow deposits to be made in local currency or even bitcoin and have easy and quick payouts to winners.

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AP Top 25 College Football Poll

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AP TeamW/LSeason StartLive Odds
1Ohio State1-0+675+575
2Penn State1-0+700+600
3LSU1-0+1200+800
4Georgia1-0+650+650
5Miami FL1-0+2800+1200
6Oregon2-0+1200+1600
7Texas0-1+600+700
8Clemson0-1+850+1600
9Notre Dame0-1+1000+1800
10South Carolina1-0+6600+6600
11Illinois1-0+15000+15000
12Arizona St.1-0+12500+12500
13Florida1-0+3300+3300
14Florida State1-0+8000+6600
15Michigan1-0+3300+3300
16Iowa State2-0+20000+20000
17SMU1-0+10000+10000
18Oklahoma1-0+4000+2800
19Texas A&M1-0+3300+3300
20Ole Miss1-0+4000+4000
21Alabama0-1+900+1800
22Tennessee1-0+6600+8000
23Indiana1-0+12500+12500
24Texas Tech1-0+10000+12500
25Utah1-0+4000+8000