Story byRyan ButlerWed, January 28, 2026 at 11:47 AM UTC·9 min readA record 31 states will allow legal sports bets on Super Bowl LX placed with mobile apps from anywhere within their state lines. A Seattle-area resident making the roughly 800-mile, 13.5-hour drive to Santa Clara, California, for next Sunday's game would only have one legal mobile betting option during the trip’s duration - and it would only be for around 300 miles of the journey. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementKey TakeawaysWest Coast bettors have far fewer legal mobile sports betting options than most states, highlighted by limited access during Super Bowl travel. Washington bans statewide mobile betting, Oregon operates a single lottery-backed sportsbook, and California remains stalled by tribal and political hurdles. Prediction markets offer an alternative to sportsbooks but may further complicate future West Coast legalization efforts. That lone option wouldn’t come in their home state or California’s Levi’s Stadium, the game’s host. The Seattle Seahawks’ opponents, the New England Patriots, play their home games in Massachusetts (six legal mobile sportsbooks), which borders five other states that all have at least one regulated mobile betting option. A bettor making the (much) longer drive from the Boston area to Northern California for the game would have legal betting options for around 2,400 of the 3,000 or so miles, or roughly 80% of the trip. With a bit of maneuvering, that Massachusetts driver could get to the California border without passing through a state that prohibits legal mobile betting. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe upcoming Super Bowl, featuring a Washington team and played in California, spotlights the West Coast’s continued dearth of legal betting options. In all three states, existing laws and tribal gaming complexities have made mobile sports betting adaptation far more difficult than for most of the country. Washington ban remainsThe Seahawks have been one of the NFL’s more successful franchises in the past 20 years, earning four Super Bowl trips in the two-decade stretch.