Brendan Sorsby admits he bet nearly $90,000 during his college career as the NCAA battle raged.

A federal district court judge in Lubbock, Texas, will hold a hearing Monday afternoon as attorneys for Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby seek a landmark injunction against the NCAA that would allow him to play this season after admitting he placed thousands of bets over the past four years, including on his own team.

A gambling scandal involving the Red Raiders’ ineligible star has recently captured the attention of the college athletics world, with his time at Texas Tech likely coming to an end after just five months.

Now, in Lubbock County court documents obtained by OutKick, Brendan Sorsby’s attorneys are putting everything on the line in hopes that a judge will grant him a play order, and are basing part of their case on the diagnosis of a doctor based at an Arizona correctional facility.

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Hoping to get a judge to rule against the NCAA, Sorsby’s legal team provided a wealth of information in court Friday, including how the quarterback was able to place multiple bets while enrolling at Indiana, Cincinnati and Texas Tech.

David Purdum of ESPN was the first to report the amount of money wagered.

According to the 111-page affidavit filed, the returner has placed $90,000 in bets over the past four years, dating back to his first year playing for the Indiana Hoosiers. Sorsby, according to his attorneys’ submissions, used multiple betting apps to place wagers, including FanDuel, Underdog, Hard Rock Bet and PrizePicks.

BRENDAN SORSBY ADMITS TO GAMBLING ON HIS TEAM, SUES NCAA IN LUBBOCK COURT FOR PROBATION.

But, he didn’t do this himself, getting help from friends to bet on different sports including 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.

Also, his biggest impact may have come when he was a quarterback on the scout team in Indiana. Sorsby, in a plea, admitted to placing at least 2,900 wagers totaling more than $30,000 during his time in Bloomington.

Betting on his team cost the Texas Tech QB his eligibility

The devastating bet occurred during the 2022 season, when Sorsby said he placed at least 40 wagers on his football team during the red season. The court filing says the quarterback made bets ranging from $1 to $114 over a two-month period from September to October of that year.

In his defense, Sorsby says he only bet on the Hoosiers to win, and stopped betting before Indiana’s first game against Penn State that season. According to NCAA rules, a player can participate in up to four games and still retain a redshirt season.

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

But again, NCAA rules prohibit a student-athlete from betting on any sport that also has a championship game at the collegiate level. This means, betting on your team to win is clearly against the rules. In this case, along with thousands of other bets placed in different sports, the NCAA deemed Sorsby ineligible for the upcoming 2026 season.

In a previous motion, attorneys representing Sorsby accused the NCAA of not supporting the quarterback during this situation, and instead using his gambling addiction against him.

“Mr. Sorsby is currently ineligible to play for Texas Tech due to prior violations of the NCAA’s sports gambling rules. Rather than supporting the recovery of a student addicted to gambling, the NCAA has sharpened his status to put on a facade of competitive integrity,” the complaint reads.

Although Sorsby contends that he “never bet on the Indiana team and/or individual members of the team in a game they participated in. He did not engage in any activity designed to influence the outcome or integrity of the college competition or in an attempt to affect win-loss margins”, he is fighting an uphill battle.

Gambling continued only with the Red Raiders, using friends to place bets

There were questions about whether Sorsby had stopped gambling after enrolling at Texas Tech, but the quarterback admitted in a filing that his addiction continued to rage while in Lubbock.

The documents say Brendan used two friends’ accounts to make bets, while admitting to sending $5,000 to those same friends to gamble on MLB, NBA and PGA Tour events for him.

“Considering the money I had and received from NIL, the total amount of money I received from 2022 to 2025 was not a big deal to me. I did not track my bets over time, but I am sure I lost more than I won,” Sorsby said in the filing.

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Cincinnati quarterback Brendan Sorsby passes Malcolm Hartzog Jr. Nebraska defensive end for a touchdown in 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, considering everything that has happened in the last four years, Sorsby has just completed 35 days in a rehabilitation clinic in Arizona, the quarterback is still receiving support from Texas Tech.

In a letter it wrote to the NCAA on Friday about its fight for reinstatement, the school continued to suggest that a two-game suspension would be sufficient punishment in this case.

“By imposing a two-game suspension on Sorsby and allowing him to continue his final season of eligibility, the NCAA will not create a negative precedent, or discredit an existing precedent,” the school said. “This is the story of the first, and probably the last, opinion.

“Has the NCAA ever had an athlete who admitted to betting thousands, and the only bet on his former team was for his team to win when he was eligible for a game and when the student’s doctor indicated that he placed that bet because of an adjustment disorder because of anxiety that made him put up that expense to feel like he was part of the team?”

Does the punishment fit the crime? The Red Raiders fight for Sorsby

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

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

“Imposing a career-ending sanction on Sorsby will send a message to current and future athletes who hide in the shadows of the stigma of mental health challenges and addictions that they need to stay calm and never seek help or treatment because the NCAA will take a punitive approach by automatically applying the maximum sanction,” Texas Tech said.

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It should be noted that Brendan Sorsby did not come forward with his gambling problems until the NCAA was made aware of his past transgressions, and Texas Tech was unaware of the matter when he enrolled at the school. It was the advice to the NCAA that started the investigation.

Now, Sorsby, along with Texas Tech and the rest of the collegiate athletics world, await a district court decision that could shake the entire foundation on which we currently live.