Indiana could soon change how bettors wager on college athletes. Regulators will revisit a request to prohibit college player props during a Sept. 24 meeting, months after delaying a decision on the issue.
The Indiana Gaming Commission (IGC) will consider the request from the NCAA as part of its Sept. 24 agenda.
Indiana currently prohibits live betting on prop bets involving individual college athletes, but pregame player props remain available. That means bettors can wager on markets such as a quarterback’s passing yards before a game starts.
The commission previously delayed its decision in June. Regulators tabled the NCAA request rather than immediately changing the state’s wagering rules. That delay kept pregame college player props available through the start of the 2026 college football season.
Competition integrity is one of the biggest reasons the college player prop betting is an issue. The NCAA has argued that individual props create additional integrity risks because a wager can depend on the performance of one athlete rather than the result of an entire team.
The NCAA renewed its push earlier this year as part of a broader effort to protect college athletes and competitions from risks related to sports betting.Examples of this were seen throughout the year.
In January, NCAA President Charlie Baker said the organization had opened sports betting integrity investigations involving approximately 40 athletes from 20 schools over the previous year. Eleven athletes from seven schools were found to have bet on their own performances or shared information with known bettors.
The NCAA has also connected player prop betting to harassment directed at individual athletes.
A 2026 NCAA survey found that one in three Division I men’s basketball players reported receiving direct blame from fans over betting losses. Another 26% said they had experienced verbal or physical abuse tied to betting.
That creates another concern with player prop markets. When a wager depends on whether one athlete reaches a certain statistical total, losing bettors can direct their frustration toward that player.
The NCAA has argued that removing college player props could reduce that direct connection between an athlete’s individual performance and a bettor’s financial outcome.
The Sept. 24 agenda confirms that Indiana is considering banning player props. The decision will come down to whether the Indiana Gaming Commission believes removing these markets would protect integrity and athletes.
The debate here is that keeping wagers with licensed sportsbooks provides greater visibility into betting activity and makes suspicious wagering easier to identify. Removing college player props could push bettors to offshore sportsbooks that still offer these markets. Those betting sites don’t offer the same consumer protections, putting players at risk.
With that in mind, it will be interesting to see what comes out of the Sept. 24 meeting.
