{"id":902471,"date":"2026-09-20T04:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T04:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/902471\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T04:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T04:20:11","slug":"geocomply-sees-nfl-betting-activity-soar-in-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/902471\/","title":{"rendered":"GeoComply Sees NFL Betting Activity Soar in Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/canadian-gaming-alberta-first-week-geolocation-checks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GeoComply<\/a> reported 99.8 million geolocation checks across its sportsbook customers during Week 1 of the National Football League (NFL) season, a 176% increase from two Sundays earlier, while new account sign-ups surged more than 310% to 135,700.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dak-Prescott.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-397601\"  \/>Dak Prescott of the Dallas Cowboys looks on against the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium on Sunday in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Giants upset the Cowboys 28-20. (Image: Elsa\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The numbers underscore the enormous pull the NFL continues to have with sports bettors, but Week 1 also provided an interesting snapshot of how the economics of football betting are changing, according to a Legal Sports Report (LSR) article.<\/p>\n<p>GeoComply is a Vancouver-based anti-fraud and geolocation compliance technology company serving sportsbook clients worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>NFL Betting Activity Surges<\/p>\n<p>On the surface, Week 1 looked like an exceptionally bettor-friendly Sunday, as Casino.org reported earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>As LSR reported, NFL teams combined for 791 points, tying 2012 for the most ever in an opening week, while setting Week 1 records for total touchdowns (93), offensive touchdowns (90), and rushing touchdowns (37).<\/p>\n<p>Favorites went 12-4 straight up; overs went 9-6-1.<\/p>\n<p>Offences Deliver Record Week<\/p>\n<p>At Caesars Sportsbook, seven of the eight early afternoon favorites won outright, while six games went over the total, many reaching that mark by halftime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Favorites, overs, and touchdown scorers combined to create a bettor-friendly trifecta, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/vegas-betting-report-nfl-week-one\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joey Feazel<\/a>, head of football at Caesars Sportsbook, told Casino.org. Bettors only finally encountered some resistance with the Los Angeles Chargers\u2019 upset loss to the Arizona Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>As LSR reported, the rapid growth of same-game parlays and player props means those traditional results are becoming increasingly unreliable indicators of whether bettors or sportsbooks ultimately came out ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Bettors Get Early Breaks<\/p>\n<p>As the LSR story detailed, and Circa confirmed, Circa Survivor, the Las Vegas-based football contest, reached over 25,000 entries going into Week 1 but over 8,000 of those entries would be eliminated, most of them losing on one game when the Chargers, favored by 8.5, were upset by the Cardinals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That was a sign that one of the weekend\u2019s most popular legs also knocked out plenty of parlays.<\/p>\n<p>Bettors are showing some appetite for another high-scoring weekend, with Overs accounting for three of BetMGM\u2019s five most-bet Week 2 totals by ticket count: Vikings-Bears Over 48, Saints-Ravens Over 46, and Panthers-Falcons Over 44.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GeoComply reported 99.8 million geolocation checks across its sportsbook customers during Week 1 of the National Football League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-902471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}