COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — As Colorado's football teams return to action this season, the state is seeing record-breaking sports betting numbers.

Between the start of the 2024 College and NFL football seasons and the Super Bowl, Coloradans wagered more than $1 billion on football alone, according to the Colorado Gaming Commission.

"The last fiscal year, we saw over $210 million bet on college football compared to $851 million bet on the NFL, so between the two of them we had over a billion dollars wagered in the state," said Christopher Schroder with the Gaming Commission.

The massive betting numbers might surprise casual fans. When asked to guess how much Coloradans wagered on football last year, local sports fans Ricardo Cruz and Brandon Heid were off by several zeros.

"$40 mil

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