Ga Sports Betting

State-regulated sports betting inside the state lines of Georgia is not allowed under current law, and the state has a history of being strictly against pretty much any form of domestic gambling, with the only form of local gambling to date being a lottery to fund education and charitable raffles. No Domestic Sports Betting In Georgia At This Time Legislative Movement Toward Sports Betting: Yes Atlanta is the capital of Georgia and is home to four professional sports franchises, the Falcons (NFL), Braves (MLB), Hawks (NBA), and Atlanta United FC (MLS), as well as the Georgia Tech Yellowjackets who compete athletically in the Atlantic.

In Wednesday’s action the Georgia Bulldogs (7-1, 0-1 SEC) face the LSU Tigers (6-2, 1-1) for a 7 p.m. ET tip at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, La.

Below, we analyze the Georgia-LSU college basketball betting odds and lines, with picks and predictions.

  • Georgia Sports Betting Could Gain Traffic From Florida And Other Neighbors Georgia is uniquely placed within the country. According to a fact sheet from the Hartsfield-Jackson, Atlanta airport, they are located within a two-hour plane ride from80% of the US population.
  • Apr 17, 2020 No, sports betting in Georgia is not legal. Sports betting in Georgia Republican State Senator Burt Jones filed a bill earlier in 2020 which would authorize the Georgia Lottery to manage online.

Georgia at LSU: Betting odds, spread and lines

Odds via BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated at 8:30 a.m. ET.

Money line: Georgia +375 (bet $100 to win $375) LSU -500 (bet $500 to win $100)Against the spread/ATS: Georgia +9.5 (-110) LSU -9.5 (-110)Over/Under: 157.5 (O: -110 U: -110)

Georgia at LSU: Three things to know

The Dawgs opened the season 7-0 SU/4-2 ATS across the first seven games, but they are coming off an 83-73 loss in Athens, Ga., Dec. 30 against Mississippi State as three-point favorites as the Over (142.5) connected.Like UGA, the Tigers are coming off a loss. They were toppled by rival Florida in Gainesville, Fla., Jan. 2 by an 83-79 score as 2.5-point underdogs as the Over (153) cashed. The Over hasn’t hit in two straight for the Tigers since the first two games of the season Nov. 26-28 against SIUE and St. Louis.The trends point to the visitors from Georgia in this one, as the underdog is an impressive 8-2-1 ATS in the past 11 meetings between the two SEC teams.

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Georgia at LSU: Odds, betting lines, predictions and picks

Prediction

LSU 79, Georgia 74

Money line (ML)

Ga Sports Betting

LSU (-500) should be able to push past Georgia (+375) in this one, but risking five times your potential return on a team coming off a disappointing loss is not a recommended play. AVOID.

Against the spread (ATS)

GEORGIA +9.5 (-110) covered its only game as an underdog so far this season, winning 83-68 against Cincinnati catching a bucket in Athens Dec. 19. The Bulldogs are 4-1 ATS in the past five games following a non-cover, and they’re 5-1 ATS in the past six road outings against a team with a home winning percentage over .600.

Over/Under (O/U)

UNDER 157.5 (-110) is the play, although it’s going to be close. Georgia has racked up 80.1 PPG this season, while LSU is even more prolific with 85.9 PPG to rank 16th in the nation. The Tigers are also hitting nearly half of every field-goal attempt, ranking 22nd in the country at 49.9 percent. They’re a very good free-throw shooting team, too, hitting at 79.5 percent to rank 12th in the land.

Also see:

LSU basketball remains out of AP Top 25 Poll (LSU Tigers Wire)

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Ga Online Sports Betting

The latest attempt to legalize sports betting in Georgia from Rep. Ron Stephens could prove less is more when it comes to legalizing gambling.

Stephens and five other co-sponsors filed HB 86, which would legalize sports betting through the Georgia Lottery.

Stephens attempted to legalize sports betting last year through HR 378, but it might have been a bit ambitious. The referendum asked for the creation of a gaming commission and approval for all gambling the commission could oversee.

That attempt, and another Stephens called his “Hail Mary“ for GA sports betting late in the last session, both failed. One source involved in the process expressed confidence to LSR that the bill has a better chance than last year’s

Georgia sports betting bill details

HB 86 is a straight-forward sports betting bill that would legalize six online-only sportsbooks with remote registration.

The lottery could license fewer than six if there aren’t enough applicants, though that shouldn’t be an issue. Outside of Tennessee to Georgia’s north, Southern states have mostly been left out of the sports betting legalization wave.

That means legal online sportsbooks in Georgia could draw traffic from its other border states of Alabama, South Carolina and, most importantly, Florida.

The bill taxes sports betting revenue at 16%. Sportsbook operators would also pay $900,000 annually to retain its license after a $50,000 application fee.

Problem gambling proposal but no funding

The bill addresses the need for problem gambling services in the state but might not go far enough.

Georgia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities would work with local and national problem gambling organizations. The department would “establish prevention initiatives to reduce the number of individuals with problem gambling or a gambling disorder.”

There’s one problem, though: there’s no funding for such a program in the bill. All tax revenue from lottery operations go toward education in Georgia and sports betting would be no exception:

All of the tax collected under this Code section shall be distributed by the corporation to the general fund of the state treasury for deposit into the Lottery for Education Account established pursuant to Code Section 50-27-13.

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Leagues get a piece of GA sports betting too

The major US sports leagues have had their lobbyists busy in all states to get a piece of the sports betting pie. Based on this bill ,it looks like Georgia is no different.

HB 86 would require sportsbooks to use official league data to settle in-play bets. There’s also another interesting nugget for the leagues:

Any sports governing body on whose sporting event the corporation has authorized wagering may also enter into commercial agreements with sports wagering operators or other entities that provide for such sports governing body to share in the amount bet from sports wagering on sporting events of such sports governing body. A sports governing body shall not be required to obtain a license or any other approval from the corporation to enter into such commercial agreements.

Why sportsbooks would willingly choose to give the leagues an integrity feeisn’t clear. In any case, it’s optional.

It’s worth noting all four of Georgia’s professional sports teams called for legal sports betting last year after creating the Georgia Professional Sports Integrity Alliance.