2025 United Football League Betting Online
UFL Conference Championship betting is in the books, with the Michigan Panthers and D.C. Defenders both going on the road to pull off impressive upsets over the Birmingham Stallions and St. Louis BattleHawks, respectively. With those results now final, the UFL Championship odds have shifted once again at the crypto sportsbook—narrowing the title chase to just two remaining contenders as the league heads into Championship Week. Now’s the perfect time to reassess the playoff landscape and evaluate which of these two teams has what it takes to capture their first-ever league title. With just one game left to play, here’s an updated look at the UFL Championship futures board—where the cream of the crop has officially risen to the top.
UFL Betting Lines
2025 UFL Championship Betting Lines
D.C. Defenders +2.5
Michigan Panthers -2.5
Total: 50
The Michigan Panthers went into their USFL title game matchup against the reigning champs +255 choices to win it all. That offering at the crypto sportsbook saw Bryce Perkins and his mates sitting behind the Stallions (+235) and the BattleHawks (+200) as the third-longest choices to take home bragging rights. Made sense considering Mike Nolan’s troops had never once defeated Birmingham the seven previous times the USFL rivals squared off in the history of the all-time rivalry.
That, however, didn’t prevent the Panthers from opening up a can in the USFL Championship Game with it getting out to a 14-0 second quarter lead and keep the pressure on once Birmingham made a game of it early in the third quarter. Once the Stallions clawed to within 21-17 and made it seem like they’d pull off yet another improbable win and cover against the UFL odds, much like they did over the course of the regular season, Michigan stepped on its throat, outscoring Birmingham 23-12 from that point forward to log a dominant 44-29 outright win as 1.5-point underdogs.
The Panthers saw their championship odds shorten significantly following their semifinal win. After entering last week as 2/1 choices to win it all, Michigan is now the -160 odds-on favorite to capture its first spring league title—a role the team previously held before Bryce Perkins suffered the ankle injury that sidelined him for the final three games of the regular season. As solid Birmingham was, it simply didn’t have a player with Perkins’ dynamic skill set. Now, the likely UFL MVP will look to cap off his storybook campaign by bringing home a championship.
A week removed from dropping an ugly 13-8 decision to the St. Louis BattleHawks in their home finale, the D.C. Defenders looked like a completely different team in their return trip to the “BattleDome” where they tallied an impressive 36-18 outright win and cover against the UFL spread to reach the UFL Championship for the first time in franchise history. Granted, all the players that sat out the finale were back in the huddle for the playoff rematch.
Surprisingly, it was the team’s struggling defense that set the stage for the huge road win and cover. Heading into the match, D.C.’s stop unit had served up an average of 345.2 yards and 22.5 points per game. Those outputs ranked eighth and fifth respectively. In the rain soaked slog against the BattleHawks in Week 10, St. Louis was able to gain 246 yards with 146 of them coming on the ground. In the rematch a week later, Anthony Becht’s crew only managed 240 total yards on the dry turf of The Dome at America’s Center. On top of that, the Defenders shut the hosts running game down, limiting it to just 83 total yards and 3.8 yards per carry.
D.C.’s pass rush erupted in the semifinal, recording five sacks and forcing St. Louis to turn to its backup quarterback in a desperate attempt to spark the passing game. The move didn’t pay off, as the Defenders took a commanding 20-6 lead into halftime and kept the BattleHawks at bay the rest of the way. Jordan Ta’amu and company entered the XFL Championship as sizable +450 longshots to cash in on the UFL title odds. But after going into St. Louis and securing a convincing 36-18 outright win and cover against the closing betting line, their odds have been slashed to +135—delivering far less value to $100 UFL bettors heading into the final game of the season.
All weekly UFL betting and futures odds will be available for wagering at the crypto sportsbook throughout the 2025 season.
2025 United Football League Season Schedule (ET)
UFL Week 1
St. Louis 31, Houston 6
San Antonio 9, Arlington 33
Michigan 26, Memphis 12
Birmingham 11, D.C. 18
UFL Week 2
Birmingham 21, Michigan 12
Memphis 12, D.C. 17
Houston 9, Arlington 11
San Antonio 9, St. Louis 26
UFL Week 3
Arlington 9, Birmingham 10
Houston 18, Memphis 17
San Antonio 23, Michigan 26
D.C. 27, St. Louis 15
UFL Week 4
Memphis 9, Michigan 27
St. Louis 15, Arlington 30
Birmingham 23, Houston 16
San Antonio 24, D.C. 18
UFL Week 5
Memphis 24, Birmingham 20
Michigan 27, St. Louis 32
D.C. 37, Arlington 33
Houston 27, San Antonio 3
UFL Week 6
Arlington 6, St. Louis 12
Memphis 20, Houston 21
D.C. 14, Michigan 38
San Antonio 3, Birmingham 26
UFL Week 7
D.C. 32, San Antonio 24
Michigan 25, Arlington 24
Houston 25, Birmingham 33
St. Louis 19, Memphis 9
UFL Week 8
Memphis 24, San Antonio 22
Birmingham 28, St. Louis 29
Michigan 30, Houston 18
Arlington 30, D.C. 33
UFL Week 9
St. Louis 39, San Antonio 13
Arlington 30, Memphis 12
Michigan 22, Birmingham 26
D.C. 21, Houston 24
UFL Week 10
St. Louis 13, D.C. 8
Houston 19, Michigan 12
Arlington 23, San Antonio 6
Birmingham 46, Memphis 9
UFL Conference Championship
Sunday, June 8
Michigan Panthers 44, Birmingham Stallions 29
D.C. Defenders 36, St. Louis Battlehawks 18
UFL Championship
Saturday, June 14
8:00 PM - ABC - D.C. Defenders vs. Michigan Panthers - The Dome at America's Center, St. Louis, MO
The United Football League (UFL) is a professional spring football league born of a merger between the United States Football League (USFL) and the XFL.
In 2025, the UFL will be comprised of eight teams and two divisions. All UFL regular season games will be played in the home fields of the teams involved. Unlike the old USFL format, there will be no neutral site games. The league was created as a "merger of equals," with the respective leagues' owners assuming 50% ownership of the newly formed UFL.
The regular season kicks off on Friday, March 28, 2025, with the championship game on Saturday, June 14, 2025.
In the United States, the television rights for the UFL are held by Fox and ESPN, which previously held the rights to the USFL and XFL, respectively.
The league is divided into two conferences, the USFL Conference and the XFL Conference, each a continuation of its respective league. Each team will play a ten-game schedule with no bye weeks, playing two games against each conference rival (one home and one away) and one game against each team in the other conference, like the XFL, all eight teams playing in their home markets.
The UFL has reworked the playoff system so that the winners of each conference will host the league semifinals as before. In contrast, the two remaining playoff seeds will be wild-card bids going to the best remaining overall records, regardless of conference.
United Football League Teams
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