If you like college sports betting but live in a state without legal sports betting and still want to wager, that probably means you have to do so in an unregulated market.
The unregulated market might be a guy down the street or someone running a book offshore. One thing we know about bettors is that even if sports betting is not legal in a state, it is still happening. People will find a way to bet — they always have.
The fact that people will find a way to bet on the sports that they want to bet on makes decisions like that of Massachusetts to exclude wagering on in-state college teams from regulated markets in the name of integrity all the more preposterous.
You’re not stopping college betting
Despite the fact that restricting college betting on certain teams almost certainly does not eliminate the wagers (it just pushes them into other markets,) states continue to line up to exclude wagering on in-state teams.