College Football Regular Season will end without Legal Betting In Missouri

Sports wagering is still not legal in Missouri as the state's only Power Four football program kicks off its routine season Thursday. It will stay illegal when the season ends.


- Missouri's very first legal online and retail sportsbooks won't go live till Dec. 1, meaning no legal bets for the entire college football routine season.


- DraftKings and FanDuel, the leading two operators by market share, plan to release Dec. 1, in addition to numerous other nationwide sportsbooks.


- The hold-up will cost Missouri millions in lost tax revenue and keeps gamblers from betting on most of 2025 football games.


Missouri's first legal online and retail sportsbooks will not go live until Dec. 1. This means bettors in the Show Me State will not have an opportunity to position a legal bet for the whole of the college football routine season.


That includes the University of Missouri's opener against Central Arkansas on Thursday through the Nov. 29 season finale at Arkansas.


Missouri wagerers will have the ability to bank on the College Football Playoff in addition to the tail end of the NFL regular season. But Missouri will miss out on the huge majority of prospective bets put on football, far and away the most wagered-upon sport in America.


Come 2026, Missouri wagerers will have the ability to bet on point spreads, totals, and moneylines for Mizzou and other in-state programs, unlike a ban in neighboring Illinois that avoids bets on the state's colleges, using a little alleviation reward.


Missouri sports betting background


Missouri voters directly authorized legal sportsbooks on the November 2024 ballot. Similar to the other 39 states that have actually approved legal sportsbooks, regulators needed to finish additional requirements, including licensing constraints, monetary reporting, and a host of other crucial requireds.