- Michigan online sportsbooks reported $43.36 million in July gross sports betting receipts on $355.2 million in handle.
- Adjusted gross receipts of $30.77 million rose 52.7% from June even though handle fell 3.0%.
- Sports betting paid the state $2.1 million in July taxes and fees, against $61.2 million from iGaming.
- Michigan still permits player props on college athletes, a market Ohio, Maryland, Louisiana and Vermont have banned.
DETROIT – Michigan sports betting revenue totaled $43.36 million in July on $355.2 million in online wagers, a 12.2% hold, the Michigan Gaming Control Board reported Aug. 18 in the state’s final monthly reading before college football season.
A 12% Hold On Shrinking Summer Handle
Online handle totaled $355.2 million in July, down 3.0% from June, according to the Michigan Gaming Control Board’s monthly report. Against $43.36 million in gross receipts, bettors as a group lost about one of every eight dollars they put through the books.
The month’s growth came from margin, not volume. Adjusted gross receipts, the figure left after promotional deductions, reached $30.77 million, up 52.7% from June and 28.8% from July 2025, while the amount wagered fell. Sportsbooks kept a far larger share of a smaller pool, which made July the fattest month of the summer for the operators rather than for the people betting with them.
The board reported a combined $346.13 million in July gross receipts across both online verticals, up 1.4% from June, with iGaming accounting for $302.77 million of it.
Sports Betting’s Small Share Of The Tax Take
Sports betting operators sent $2.1 million in taxes and fees to the state in July, while iGaming sent $61.2 million, per the same report. The three Detroit casinos paid another $591,247 in sports betting taxes and fees to the city, and tribal operators reported $8.4 million in payments to their governing bodies across both verticals.
That gap is the standing math of Michigan’s online market. Sports betting supplies the volume and the headlines, and iGaming supplies the treasury. A fall handle surge will move the first number far more than the second, because sports betting is taxed on a much thinner adjusted base.
The Floor College Football Builds From
July is the trough the fall gets measured against. The summer months are the lightest stretch on Michigan’s sports betting calendar, and Saturdays with Michigan and Michigan State in play are what push handle back toward its seasonal peaks. The state’s 13 online sports betting operators, out of 15 licensed for at least one online vertical, enter the season with a full menu of college football props to sell against that demand.
That menu is itself a Michigan distinction. The state reversed its launch-era prohibition on player props for college athletes, and it has not joined Ohio, Maryland, Louisiana and Vermont, which banned those markets under NCAA pressure. The rules for college football prop betting in Michigan remain among the most permissive in the country, and the sportsbooks with CFB props carry both team and player markets there.
The board publishes operator-level results on its website. It released June figures July 21 and July figures Aug. 18; the August report follows on the same cycle in mid-September.
