If there’s one thing that we know about the Lone Star State, it’s that football reigns supreme from the Louisiana border west towards El Paso.
BetTexas.com - your home for the best Texas sports betting coverage - was curious about what professional sports teams are favorites among Texas residents. Using SEMRush.com, we ranked the top five most searched professional Texas-based sports teams.
Texas’ Favorite Professional Sports Teams
Rank | Team | Search Volume |
1 | Dallas Cowboys | 5,000,000 |
2 | Dallas Mavericks | 2,240,000 |
T3 | Houston Astros | 1,500,000 |
T3 | Texas Rangers | 1,500,000 |
5 | Houston Texans | 1,000,000 |
Which team will you find yourself betting on once Texas sports betting apps are legal?
Which Texas Team Rules Them All?
Thanks to winning five Super Bowls and anointing themselves as “America’s Team,” it’s no wonder that the Dallas Cowboys finished leaps and bounds ahead of the pack when it came to Texas-wide popularity.
In total, Jerry Jones’ bunch in Arlington racked up a search volume total of 5 million during the period in question, more than double the next closest team (the Dallas Mavericks, at 2,240,000), speaking to the team’s cult of personality despite the club’s failure to advance past the NFC Divisional Round since their last title run in 1995.
Two Houston teams, in the Astros (third overall at 1.5 million) and Texans (fifth at 1 million) placed third and fifth statewide, popularity wise, while the Texas Rangers finished fourth with a total search volume of 1.5 million during the period in question.
Of the five, the Astros have the best shot at adding another title in the year ahead, with +1500 odds of capturing a third World Series crown since 2017, while the Rangers (+2500), Texans (+3500), Cowboys (+7000) and Mavericks (+400000) bring up the rear according to the team at DraftKings Sportsbook.
The Texas team with the best championship odds didn’t even make the cut this year, as the Dallas Stars of the NHL currently have the best Stanley Cup title odds on DraftKings Sportsbook, at +600, thanks to the club having the second-most points in the Western Conference, at 87, with 16 games remaining in the league’s regular season, illustrating how hard it is to break through in the sport-crazed Lone Star State.
