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Kansas State Football Bowl Projections: Odds For Wildcats’ 2024-25 Bowl Game
What began as a season full of College Football Playoff dreams has crashed back to earth in Manhattan, as the 7-3 Kansas State Wildcats are reeling.
Any Playoff dreams, or CFP futures tickets at Kansas sportsbooks, all but ended Saturday in a wire-to-wire loss at home to Arizona State on Saturday night.
That 24-14 home loss to the Devils knocked K-State to 4-3 in Big 12 play, putting them two games behind BYU and Colorado with two games to play. The Wildcats are virtually eliminated from playing in the conference championship game with contests against Cincinnati and Iowa State to go.
This week, coach Chris Klieman’s team is listed as an 8.5-point home favorite over the Bearcats on DraftKings Sportsbook Kansas, with a -325 moneyline on the Wildcats in the team’s penultimate conference game of the season. All year long, BetKansas.com will update K-State’s bowl game odds, with this week’s update including stops in Orlando, Phoenix, Houston, Memphis and San Antonio:
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Kansas State Bowl Projections: Odds For Wildcats 2024-2025 Bowl Game
Bowl | Location | Conference Opponent | Odds | Pct. Chance |
Pop-Tarts Bowl | Orlando, FL | vs. ACC | +175 | 36.4% |
Rate Bowl | Phoenix, AZ | vs. Big Ten | +325 | 23.5% |
Texas Bowl | Houston, TX | Vs. SEC | +610 | 14.1% |
Liberty Bowl | Memphis, TN | Vs. SEC | +875 | 10.3% |
Alamo Bowl | San Antonio, TX | Vs. TBD (formerly Pac-12) | +1900 | 5.0% |
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| +900 | 10.0% |
Right now, Kansas State’s bowl game possibilities run the gamut, thanks to the plethora of postseason possibilities for the Big 12 in 2024. The conference has inherited several postseason contests previously tied in with the Pac-12. All bowl games will have a bevy of wagering options from operators that offer the best Kansas sports betting promos.
For now, we’ll go with a return trip to Orlando’s Pop-Tarts Bowl in Orland (+175) as K-State’s top bowl possibility. Phoenix’s Rate Bowl (+325), Houston’s Texas Bowl (+610), Memphis’ Liberty Bowl (+875) and San Antonio’s Alamo Bowl (+1900) are other options we see as possibilities for Klieman and company. The Rate Bowl was formerly called the Guaranteed Rate Bowl.
Kansas State Bowl Game History
Year | Bowl | Result |
2023 | Pop-Tarts Bowl | Win, 28-19 vs. NC State |
2022 | Sugar Bowl | Loss, 45-20 vs. Alabama |
2021 | Texas Bowl | Win, 42-20 vs. LSU |
2020 | No Bowl Game | - |
2019 | Liberty Bowl | Loss, 20-17 vs. Navy |
The Wildcats played in the Pop-Tarts Bowl a season ago, beating North Carolina State, 28-19, to finish a 9-4 season that saw Kansas State ranked 18th in the year-end Associated Press top 25 poll. That was the second year in which Kansas sportsbook apps were active during football season.
Kansas State’s last trip to the Valley of the Sun came in 2017, when the Wildcats romped over UCLA, 35-17, in the Cactus Bowl to cap an 8-5 campaign. KSU also made trips to the greater Phoenix area in 1993, 2001 and 2013. In those three other contests, K-State went 2-1, beating Wyoming (52-17) in the 1993 Copper Bowl and Michigan (31-14) in the 2013 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl. The Sun Devils fell to Syracuse, 26-3, in the 2001 Insight Bowl.
Klieman’s first bowl win came in the Texas Bowl in 2021, when K-State routed LSU, 42-20, to cap an 8-5 season. KSU's most recent trip to Memphis was their current head coach’s first postseason game with the school, when the Wildcats lost to Navy, 20-17, in 2019.
Kansas State last played in San Antonio in 2014, when Bill Snyder and company lost to UCLA, 40-35, to cap a 9-4 campaign.
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Q&As
For the 2024-25 college football season, we currently project Kansas State to play in the Pop Tarts Bowl in Orlando, with +175 odds for that scenario.
Kansas State has enough victories to be bowl eligible, but we don't know which bowl the Wildcats will go to yet. Their most recent bowl game was in the 2023 Pop-Tarts Bowl on Dec. 28, 2023.
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