Four ACC states have no sportsbook app this fall, and in three more the home team is off the board. Here is where every state stands.

The ACC now runs from Palo Alto to Chestnut Hill, and the map of what its fans can legally use on a Saturday is just as spread out. Four of the conference's eleven states have no sportsbook at all. One has a single app. Three of the open markets keep their own college teams off every sportsbook in the state. Here is where each one stands heading into the second half of the season.

No sportsbook: Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, California

Texas did not have a legislative session in 2026; its Legislature meets in regular session only in odd-numbered years, and the 2025 session ended without a sports betting amendment going to voters. The next chance is January 2027. What Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick did put on the 2026 agenda, in March, was an interim study by the Senate State Affairs Committee of what he called the "sudden inundation" of prediction markets. SMU fans can still use those markets today.

Georgia came closest to a public vote and still fell well short. On Crossover Day, March 6, the state House voted 63-98 on a constitutional amendment that needed 120 votes, which ended the effort for this two-year term. Georgia Tech fans are where Texans are: no sportsbook, prediction markets available.

South Carolina's main bill, the South Carolina Sports Wagering Act (S.444), got a Senate committee hearing in February and never got a vote before the session ended in May. Clemson fans have Novig, Kalshi and Polymarket US, and the state has not moved against them.

California voters rejected both sports betting measures in 2022, Proposition 27 badly and Proposition 26 by a wide margin too, and the state's gaming tribes have said 2028 is their target for another try. In the meantime, two tribes are suing Kalshi in federal court; in September the Ninth Circuit said they were likely to win their claim about contracts traded on tribal land and sent the case back to the trial judge. Cal and Stanford fans can use Novig, Kalshi and Polymarket US.

One app: Florida

Florida's 2021 compact gives the Seminole Tribe exclusive mobile rights, run through Hard Rock Bet, and the court fights over it ended in 2024. No other sportsbook can enter. Florida State and Miami fans get a two-way comparison on our game pages: Hard Rock's price against Novig's.

Open, but not for the home team: Virginia, New York, Massachusetts

These three states have full sportsbook markets, and all three wrote their own colleges out of them.

Virginia bars betting on any game involving a Virginia college team, wherever it is played, so UVA and Virginia Tech never appear on a Virginia sportsbook. A bill filed in January to open game-level betting on the state's Division I teams did not change that.

New York has the same rule for New York colleges, which takes Syracuse off every New York app. The state has also gone after prediction markets harder than any other ACC state: the Gaming Commission sent Kalshi a cease-and-desist last October, a federal judge declined to block the state in July, and Attorney General Letitia James sued Kalshi on July 31 and Polymarket on September 24. The CFTC has gone to court to stop the state.

Massachusetts allows bets on in-state colleges only in tournaments, so regular-season Boston College games are off the board. Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell sued Kalshi in 2025 and won a preliminary injunction against its sports contracts in January; the Supreme Judicial Court heard the appeal in May and had not ruled when we checked.

Novig is available in all three states, so for Cavaliers, Hokies, Orange and Eagles fans it shows a price where the local sportsbooks show nothing.

Open: North Carolina, Kentucky, Pennsylvania

North Carolina, home to four ACC schools, has had online sportsbooks since March 2024 and no in-state college carve-out. Its 2026 budget, signed July 7, raised the sportsbook tax from 18% to 23% and also said that CFTC-registered prediction markets may operate lawfully in the state, with a 6% tax on their North Carolina trading fees starting in January.

Kentucky went the other way. House Bill 904 became law over Gov. Andy Beshear's veto in April, raised the betting age from 18 to 21 and bars licensed sportsbooks from working with prediction markets. Attorney General Russell Coleman sued Kalshi and Polymarket in June, and the CFTC sued Kentucky a week later. Louisville fans can still use both kinds of venue while that plays out.

Pennsylvania has the oldest market in the footprint, live online since 2019, with 11 apps. A House bill introduced in July would regulate prediction markets rather than ban them; it has not left committee. Pitt fans see the full board.

What did not change

Novig, a CFTC-designated exchange, is available in all eleven ACC states. One brand did disappear: ESPN BET became theScore Bet in December 2025, so our state pages list it by its new name.

Each state page carries the date it was last reviewed and gets re-checked monthly and after any vote or ruling.