American football in Morocco: NFL, NCAA and CFL before kick-off
American football is a team sport played on a field marked out in yards: the side with the ball moves it forward through a limited run of downs, aiming to carry or catch it in the opponent's end zone for a touchdown, or to kick a field goal. The 2026 rulebooks of the NFL and the NCAA both set a game at 60 minutes of play, in four quarters of fifteen minutes. The Canadian Football League plays its own version, with 12 players a side and three downs to gain ten yards.
On 1xBet the sport is listed under three competitions: the NFL (National Football League) in the United States, the NCAA college game and the Canadian CFL. Each keeps its own calendar and its own overtime rule.
Settling a bet: what section 10.2 of the site rules says
American football has a section of its own in the site's betting rules, numbered 10.2. Its first item sets the default: unless a market says otherwise, a bet covers regular time together with overtime, so a winner bet is decided by the final score after any extra period.
Situation | How the bet is settled | Rule |
|---|---|---|
Game ends level after overtime | W1 and W2 are returned at odds of 1.00; totals and handicaps stand on the actual score | Section 10.2, item 7 |
Game started but not completed | Every bet at odds of 1.00, except markets already clearly decided when play stopped, and except when 55 minutes or more had been played: the game then counts and the real score applies | Section 10.2, item 2 (a site rule, not a league rule) |
Handicap leaves the teams level; total lands exactly on the line | Odds of 1 in both cases; a half-point line rules this out | Chapter 11, items 7 and 8 |
Pre-match game postponed by more than 48 hours | Bets are void, and a change to the official kick-off time counts as a postponement; the 48 hours are approximate and the bookmaker may keep bets standing | Chapter 9, item 8 |
The draw case matters for one competition only. An NFL regular-season game can still finish level after its single overtime period; college games and, from 2026, CFL regular-season games always produce a winner, so item 7 has no practical effect there.
Three leagues, three overtime formats
NFL regular season (2026 Official Playing Rules, Rule 16): after a break of no more than three minutes, one extra period of 10 minutes. Each team must get a chance to possess the ball; once both have had their turn, the team ahead wins, and if still level the next score decides. There is only one such period, so the game can end in a tie. Since the 2025 rule change this mirrors the postseason format, capped at 10 minutes.
NFL postseason: 15-minute periods, each team possessing at least once, repeated for as long as it takes to find a winner.
NCAA (2026 Rules and Interpretations, Rule 3-1-3): when a game is tied after four periods, each extra period is made up of two possession series, both starting on the opponent's 25-yard line. From the second extra period a touchdown has to be followed by a two-point try; from the third, a possession series shrinks to one two-point play from the three-yard line. College games never end in a tie; the two-point format from the third overtime has applied since the 2021 season.
CFL (2026 Official Playing Rules, Rule 1-8): a tie leads to an overtime mini-game in which each team scrimmages from the opponent's 35-yard line and a touchdown must be followed by a two-point convert from the three-yard line, with a second mini-game played at the far end if needed. In playoff and Grey Cup games the mini-games continue until one side wins; in the regular season, from 2026, alternating two-point converts decide the game instead, a change the league says was made to eliminate ties.
NFL, NCAA and CFL: when each competition plays
The NFL's regular season covers 18 weeks and 272 games between September and early January. Playoff rounds follow in January, and the Super Bowl decides the champion in mid-February: Super Bowl LXI is scheduled for Sunday 14 February 2027 in Inglewood, California. Fixtures sit in the NFL section of the pre-match line, whose address does not change from one season to the next; in the off-season the group may stand empty.
College football opens in late August and plays into early December, when the 12-team College Football Playoff names its field. First-round games are played on campus in mid-December, the quarter-finals fall around New Year in four bowls (Rose Bowl Game, Fiesta Bowl, Cotton Bowl Classic, Peach Bowl), the semi-finals in mid-January (Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl), and the national championship game on Monday 25 January 2027 in Las Vegas. These matches are grouped under college football odds in the NCAA group.
The CFL fills the other half of the year: a regular season from June to late October, Division Semi-Finals at the end of October, Division Finals in early November and the Grey Cup in mid-November, the 113th edition falling on Sunday 15 November 2026 at McMahon Stadium in Calgary. With no games in the off-season, the CFL group appears in the line only around its fixtures. The 2026 CFL rulebook sets a field of 110 by 65 yards with 20-yard goal areas, 12 players a side and three downs to make ten yards; a touchdown brings six points, a field goal three, a convert one or two, and a single point, or rouge, one. A 35-second play clock came in for 2026.
What a match card shows
On an NFL match card the site lists "Team Wins" (W1 or W2, two outcomes and no X), "Total" (Over and Under a points line), "Handicap", "First Half / Full-time" (half-time and final result combined, X included) and "Will There Be Overtime" (Yes / No). The American terms moneyline and spread describe the first and third of these, but the card uses the labels above. An NCAA card can look different: a single total line, no overtime market, and two groups of its own, one on the number of points each team will reach (for example 10, 15 or 20 or more), the other on a team scoring in both halves. The set of markets depends on the game.
Section 10.2 also provides for markets on the highest and lowest scoring quarter and half, on players' touchdowns, on the result of a drive (touchdown, field goal, turnover, punt or any other outcome) and on whether a drive produces a first down; a drive cut short when a half or the game ends is settled at odds of 1.00. These are rulebook markets, not a promise for every card.
Morocco, the pre-match menu and live play
In Morocco the game is played at amateur level, with teams in Rabat, Casablanca, Fez, Salé, Tiflet and Khémisset; Moroccan press reported in 2025 that the sport still lacked a recognised governing body. Flag football, the non-contact version, is a different discipline from the tackle game of the NFL.
Everything above concerns the pre-match line, where American football sits alongside every sport open for betting before kick-off.
Once a game has started, bets move to the live American football section. A Moroccan player's account is kept in dirhams (MAD).