As college football season arrives, schools pay monitors to stop players and staff from gambling

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “They’re just onboarding and they’re going through the documents just like any other student, though in this case, a student-athlete will have a higher obligation,” Creighton sports law professor David Weber said. He said the school also does a good job of “keeping us away from stuff like that.” GAMBLING BOOM The Supreme Court cleared the way for legalized sports betting in May 2018; 37 states plus the District of Columbia now have it. “More and more potential issues could become prevalent, but the good news is these things are being flagged and discovered and managed, so I think what is in place is potentially working,” said Baird Fogel, a California attorney who works with the sports betting industry. “We continue to be on this pace that crushes expectations way back in 2018 when it was first legalized.” But perceptions are important, and for a conference such as the SEC or Big Ten to believe it’s worth taking the chance to have its events called into question because of a business relationship with a betting company, there would have to be a compelling reason to make that move.