Every dedicated college betting community on Reddit has been banned or abandoned. College sports are the worst-served category on the platform, and here is what is left.
College football is one of the most heavily bet sports in America, and college basketball produces the single biggest betting event of the year. Between them they have no working betting community on Reddit at all.
This is not an exaggeration. We checked every candidate individually on 17 August 2026.
| Community | Status | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| r/CFBbetting | Banned | Removed by Reddit. No archive. |
| r/CFBBets | Banned | The alternate casing. Also removed. |
| r/CBBbets | Banned | College basketball. Removed. |
| r/CollegeBasketballBets | Abandoned | Still loads, but the newest post is from July 2025. Over a year stale. |
Two banned names for college football, one banned and one abandoned for college basketball. Four attempts, none surviving. That is a worse record than any other sport we looked at, and it is covered in full in our list of betting subreddits that got banned.
Where college betting talk actually happens
The r/sportsbook daily threads
r/sportsbook is the only real answer. Through the autumn, Saturday is the busiest day of the week for college football in the Pick of the Day and Parlay of the Day threads, and it stays busy through bowl season. In March, the tournament dominates everything, and the subreddit maintains a March Madness wiki page specifically for it.
You cannot start your own thread there. Everything goes inside the dated dailies, a system we explain in our guide to the r/sportsbook daily threads.
r/sportsbetting
r/sportsbetting, 580,826 members, allows standalone posts. If you want to ask why a Group of Five line moved four points overnight, this is where to ask it.
The fan communities
r/CFB and the individual team subreddits are enormous and genuinely excellent, and they are not betting spaces. You will find scheme analysis, injury news and recruiting, all of which is useful context, but posting a bet slip is not what those communities are for. Read them for information, bet elsewhere.
Why the college betting communities keep dying
Reddit does not publish reasons, so this is inference rather than fact. Two things stand out.
The first is the same problem that killed the other sport-specific subs. Small betting communities are magnets for pick sellers, moderation gets overwhelmed, and Reddit eventually treats an unmoderated spam pit as a spam operation. The communities that survive are the ones with hard anti-touting rules, which we cover in why you cannot sell picks on Reddit.
The second is specific to college. Betting on unpaid student athletes is a genuinely contested subject, several states have restricted or banned college player props, and universities have pushed back hard on prop markets involving their athletes. A community built entirely around that activity sits on more sensitive ground than one built around the NFL.
A note on college markets themselves
The practical thing worth knowing is that college is where the gap between books is widest. Major conference games get treated much like professional sport, but the further down the schedule you go, the more the numbers diverge and the tighter the limits get.
In our own testing, SEC and Big Ten games attracted strong limits while lower-profile matchups were noticeably tighter, and our Bookmaker review documents that split. If you bet mid-week conference games, having more than one account stops being a nice idea and starts being the whole edge. Our sportsbook rankings cover which books actually price the smaller games.
Questions people ask
Is there a college football betting subreddit?
No working one. Both r/CFBbetting and r/CFBBets were banned by Reddit. College football betting discussion happens inside the r/sportsbook daily threads, which get busiest on Saturdays through the season.
What about college basketball?
r/CBBbets was banned and r/CollegeBasketballBets has had no posts since July 2025. During March, tournament betting discussion concentrates in the r/sportsbook daily threads, and that subreddit maintains a March Madness wiki page.
Can I post bets in r/CFB or a team subreddit?
Those are fan communities rather than betting communities. They are excellent for injury news, scheme analysis and recruiting, all of which is useful before you bet, but bet slips and picks are not what they are for.
Why do college betting subreddits keep getting banned?
Reddit does not publish reasons. The general pattern with small sport-specific betting communities is that they attract pick sellers faster than volunteer moderators can remove them. College carries additional sensitivity because several states restrict player props on student athletes.
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