The American Gaming Association (AGA) expects Americans to wager $30bn through legal US sportsbooks during the 2025 NFL season, the organisation said. The estimate is 8.5% above its revised $27.6bn figure for the previous season and includes preseason games, futures, playoffs and Super Bowl LX in February 2026.
The forecast gives operators a measure of expected legal NFL betting handle across the US.
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The American Gaming Association projects that legal wagers on NFL games will reach $35 billion this year, according to its senior vice-president of strategic communications, Joe Maloney. The estimate is 33% above the approximately $26 billion recorded last year; Maloney attributed the rise to maturing markets and new states legalising sports betting.
The American Gaming Association forecast that legal US sports betting would generate $1.76bn in wagers on the Super Bowl scheduled for 8 February. The estimate, announced on 30 January, is almost 27% higher than the previous year’s figure. The AGA also cited survey findings on prediction-market users’ awareness of dispute options and access to responsible gambling tools.
The House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development will hold a hearing on campus sports betting at 10:15 a.m. on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., a media report said. Lawmakers will examine student gambling, harassment of student-athletes and the legality of college player prop bets.
A hearing on gambling on college campuses is scheduled for 10:15 a.m. on Wednesday, the House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development confirmed. The examination will cover gambling by students, abuse directed at student-athletes and whether college player prop bets are legal.
The American Gaming Association estimated that Kalshi users aged 18 to 20 generated more than $8.844 billion in sports-related trading volume through 27 October, based on a 4% figure the association said Kalshi had published and later changed. The AGA argues that users aged 18 to 20 can access these markets despite age limits of 21 for sports betting in numerous US states.
The American Gaming Association (AGA) estimated that Kalshi users aged 18 to 20 generated more than $8.844bn in sports trading volume through 27 October. According to the AGA, the calculation rests on information that Kalshi published on its website and later changed. In that information, the AGA said, Kalshi stated that users aged 18 to 20 accounted for 4% of its trading volume.
Executives from the American Gaming Association and the Sports Betting Alliance discussed how state-level regulation, tax policy and illegal operators may affect US sports betting. The source notes that the US Supreme Court decided PASPA on 14 May 2018.