American football is the highest betting-volume sport in the United States by total handle, and the NFL's specific structure — a 17-week regular season with a fixed Sunday schedule, followed by three playoff rounds and the Super Bowl — creates a betting calendar with predictable peaks and a well-developed analytical tradition around point spread coverage. The point spread is the primary format in American football betting, not a secondary option, which makes the discipline around line movement, opening spread, and closing line value central to the approach. A full NFL Sunday features 13 to 15 simultaneous games, with Monday Night Football, Thursday Night Football, and Sunday Night Football adding additional prime-time single-game focus. At 1xBit, American football coverage spans the NFL from preseason through the Super Bowl, NCAA college football, and the Canadian Football League.
Coverage
NFL regular season coverage opens with preseason games in August, where market depth is limited, and scales up to full depth for the regular season beginning in September. All 272 regular season games across 17 weeks receive point spread, moneyline, and totals coverage. NFL playoffs — Wild Card weekend, Divisional round, Conference Championship games, and the Super Bowl — carry the deepest market selection of the year, with full player prop menus and game prop markets.
College football coverage includes the entire NCAA FBS regular season, all major conference championship games (Big Ten, SEC, Big 12, ACC, Pac-12), the College Football Playoff (first round through national championship), and the major bowl game schedule including the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, and Cotton Bowl. The NFL Draft generates futures markets on first overall pick selection and first-round draft order. The CFL regular season and Grey Cup are listed separately.
Betting Markets
Pre-Match Options
The point spread is the default NFL market. It assigns a margin to create a more balanced two-outcome structure — a typical regular season spread ranges from 2.5 to 10.5 points, with double-digit spreads on divisional mismatches. Moneyline is available alongside the spread for bettors who want the straight winner without the margin. Totals — combined score over/under — are set around 43–51 points in the NFL depending on offensive and defensive profiles.
First half and first quarter lines isolate a portion of the game, removing fourth-quarter variance and garbage-time scoring that distorts full-game spread coverage. Player props cover passing yards and touchdowns, rushing yards and touchdowns, receiving yards and receptions, and first touchdown scorer. Game props include first team to score, total turnovers, and whether either team scores in the final two minutes of a half. Super Bowl futures open in preseason and update throughout the regular season and playoffs.
| Market | Format |
|---|---|
| Point Spread | Handicap covering both outcomes |
| Moneyline | Outright winner without margin |
| Totals | Combined score over/under |
| First Half / Quarter Lines | Isolated period betting |
| Player Props | Yards, touchdowns, receptions |
| Super Bowl Futures | Championship winner pre-season through playoffs |
Live Betting
Live NFL markets update possession by possession. Quarter betting isolates a specific period, which allows a bettor to respond to game-state dynamics: a team that starts flat but has a dominant defence is a different live proposition by the second quarter than the same team's first-half spread implies. Drive betting on playoff games adds a layer of granularity not available in regular season — tracking a team's ability to sustain or stop a scoring drive when the score is close in the fourth quarter is a distinct market from the game-level totals.
Monday Night, Thursday Night, and Sunday Night Football draw the highest in-play volume because they are single-game broadcasts without competition from simultaneous games. Cash-out is available on NFL regular season and playoff live markets. A first-half spread position can be settled at halftime rather than waiting for the full-game result if the second half looks structurally different from the first.
Crypto Payments
NFL Sunday is the single largest concentrated betting day in American football, with 13 or more simultaneous 1pm and 4pm kickoffs before Sunday Night Football. Bettors who parlay or single-game bet across multiple Sunday games need to track and reload a balance throughout the afternoon window. Crypto deposits at 1xBit process within one confirmation, which fits between kickoffs on the same afternoon. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT are the standard deposit methods. Monday Night Football and Thursday Night Football are single-game betting events where the full balance can be deployed on one fixture — crypto withdrawals after those games process directly to the linked wallet without KYC documentation.
Available Competitions
Coverage includes NFL preseason, regular season (all 272 games), Wild Card, Divisional round, Conference Championships, and Super Bowl. NFL Draft first overall pick and round-one order futures. NCAA FBS regular season, all Power Conference championship games, College Football Playoff (first round through national championship), Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, and other major bowl games. Pro Bowl. CFL regular season and Grey Cup. NFL Europa and international series games in London and Frankfurt.