A member of Tennessee’s student broadcast team has been relieved of their duties over the use of Kalshi to trade sports event contracts during the 2025 college football season.
The university’s decision to part ways with the student worker marks an important milestone in the NCAA’s approach to gambling, as it involves event contract trading rather than standard sports betting. The NCAA’s gambling rules, which recently underwent a controversial evaluation, do not explicitly provide standards for event contracts but the organization has called for enhanced consumer protections for college-based contracts.
According to Knox News, the fired student worker at Tennessee used Kalshi to trade sports event contracts for the NFL, NBA and college football, including at least one trade on the university’s football team. The trades by the unidentified student..
