Brendan Sorsby admits wagering nearly $90,000 during college career as NCAA fight heats up

A district court judge in Lubbock, Texas, will take the stage Monday afternoon as Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby’s lawyers seek a major injunction against the NCAA that could allow him to play this season after admitting to placing thousands of bets, including on his own team, over the past four years.

The gambling saga involving the Red Raiders’ currently ineligible star quarterback has captured the attention of the college athletics world, with his time at Texas Tech potentially coming to an end in just five months.

Now, in Lubbock district court documents obtained by OutKick, Brendan Sorsby’s attorneys are risking it all in the hopes of a judge granting him an injunction to stop him from playing, basing part of their case on a diagnosis from a doctor who worked at an Arizona rehab center.

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Hoping to find a judge who would rule against the NCAA, Sorsby’s legal team provided the court with a wealth of information on Friday, including how the point guard was able to place so many bets while enrolled at Indiana, Cincinnati and Texas Tech.

ESPN’s David Purdum was the first to report the deposit amount and details in court documents, and OutKick confirmed it via txcourts.gov.

According to the 111-page affidavit filed, the quarterback had placed $90,000 worth of bets over the past four years, dating back to his first year with the Indiana Hoosiers. According to his attorneys’ affidavit, Sorsby used multiple betting apps to place bets, including FanDuel, Underdog, Hard Rock Bet and PricksPicks.

BRENDAN SORSBY ADMITS TO GAMBLING ON HIS OWN TEAM, FILES THE NCAA IN LUBBOCK COURT FOR INJUNCTIONAL INjunction.

But he didn’t do this on his own; He enlisted the help of his friends to bet on different sports such as the NBA, PGA Tour and MLB, as well as college football.

The quarterback admitted to transferring at least $60,000 to friends who bet on him.

And the most important one may have come when he was a scout team quarterback at Indiana. During the application, Sorsby admitted to placing at least 2,900 bets worth more than $30,000 during his time in Bloomington.

Betting on his own team cost Texas Tech QB his eligibility

The losing bets came during the 2022 season, when Sorsby said he placed at least 40 different bets on his football team during his redshirt season. The court filing states that the quarterback placed bets ranging from $1 to $114 during a two-month period from September to October of that year.

In his defense, Sorsby claims that he only bet that the Hoosiers would win and that he stopped placing bets before playing in Indiana’s first game that season, against Penn State. Under NCAA rules, a player can participate in a maximum of four games and still retain his redshirt season.

Future Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby yells during the first half of the game between the Houston Cougars and Texas Tech Red Raiders at United Supermarkets Arena on January 24, 2026 in Lubbock, Texas. (John E. Moore III/Getty Images)

But NCAA rules also prohibit a student-athlete from betting on any sport that includes a college-level championship game. This means that betting on your own team to win is clearly against the rules. For this, along with thousands of other bets placed on different sports, the NCAA ruled Sorsby ineligible for the upcoming 2026 season.

In an earlier motion, attorneys representing Sorsby accused the NCAA of failing to support the quarterback in this case and instead using his gambling addiction against him.

“Mr. Sorsby is currently ineligible to play at Texas Tech due to his prior violations of the NCAA’s sports gambling rules. Rather than supporting a student-athlete’s recovery from a gambling addiction, the NCAA weaponized his case to promote the appearance of competitive integrity,” the complaint said.

Sorsby fights an uphill battle when he claims that he “never placed a bet on the Indiana team and/or individual members of the team in a game in which he participated. He did not engage in any activity designed to influence the outcome or integrity of an intercollegiate contest or to affect the margins of victory-loss.”

Gambling continued only with Red Raiders and friends were used to place bets

There were questions about whether Sorsby stopped gambling after enrolling at Texas Tech, but the quarterback admitted in his application that his addiction continued to increase while he was in Lubbock.

Documents state Brendan admitted to using accounts belonging to two friends to place bets and sending $5,000 to those same friends so they could gamble on MLB, NBA and PGA Tour events on his behalf.

“Given the money I had and the money I made from NIL, the total money I made from 2022 to 2025 was not very important to me. I never kept track of my bets over time, but I’m sure I lost more than I won,” Sorsby said in his application. he said.

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Cincinnati quarterback Brendan Sorsby leaps over Nebraska linebacker Malcolm Hartzog Jr. for a touchdown during the second half of an NCAA college football game at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., on Aug. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

But given what’s happened over the last four years, with Sorsby recently completing a 35-day stint at a rehab clinic in Arizona, the quarterback still has support from Texas Tech.

The school continued to argue in a letter to the NCAA on Friday revolving around the reinstatement fight that a two-game suspension would be sufficient punishment for the offense.

“The NCAA will not create a bad precedent or violate existing precedent by suspending Sorsby for two games and allowing him to continue his senior season,” the school said. “It’s a case of first and perhaps last impressions.

“Has there ever been an athlete in the NCAA who has admitted to placing thousands of bets, only to bet on his former team to win when he was ineligible for the game and the student’s doctor stated that he placed these bets due to an anxiety adjustment disorder that caused him to place these bets to feel like a part of the team?”

Is the punishment appropriate to the crime? Red Raiders battle for Sorsby

Yes, Texas Tech believes a two-game suspension would be enough punishment for Sorsby to admit to betting on his former team while on the roster.

And the Red Raiders, along with Brendan’s lawyers, are actually painting the NCAA as the bad guys.

“Issuing a career-ending sanction against Sorsby would send a message to current and future athletes hiding in the shadow of the stigma of mental health issues and addiction that they should remain silent and never seek help or treatment because the NCAA would automatically take a punitive approach by imposing the maximum sanction,” Texas Tech said. he said.

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It is worth noting that Brendan Sorsby did not reveal his gambling issues until the NCAA was notified of his past violations, and Texas Tech did not know about the issue when he enrolled at the school. It was a tip to the NCAA that sparked this investigation.

Now Sorsby, along with Texas Tech and the entire college athletics world, awaits the district court’s decision, which could shake the very foundations on which we live now.