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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 Kansas State Wildcats capped off an 8-4 campaign with a 29-21 road loss to 18th ranked Iowa State to close out the regular season.
Any Playoff dreams, or CFP futures tickets at Kansas sportsbooks, have all but ended.
With the loss, K-State finishes with a 5-4 mark in Big 12 play, having lost three of four down the stretch to teams like Houston (24-19), ASU (24-14) and the Cyclones, with the team’s lone win during that quartet of games being a 41-15 shellacking of Cincinnati.
Now, head coach Chris Klieman and his staff are tasked with waiting to see where the Wildcats will play this bowl season, with the destinations being announced once conference championship week concludes on Saturday. What we do know is that K-State will not be in the 12-team CFP field in 2024, thanks to the Wildcats’ four losses during the regular season, though BetKansas.com came up with some hypothetical odds on where Klieman and company could land come bowl season.
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Kansas State Bowl Projections: Odds For Wildcats 2024-2025 Bowl Game
Bowl | Location | Conference Opponent | Odds | Pct. Chance |
Armed Forces Bowl | Ft. Worth, TX | vs. TBD | +225 | 30.8% |
First Responder Bowl | Dallas, TX | vs. TBD | +550 | 15.4% |
LA Bowl | L.A., CA | vs. TBD | +610 | 14.1% |
Liberty Bowl | Memphis, TN | vs. SEC | +750 | 11.8% |
Pop-Tarts Bowl | Orlando, FL | vs. ACC | +875 | 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.
We’ll go with Fort Worth’s Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl as Kansas State’s most likely bowl game landing spot for now, though, with the longtime Big 12 bowl season partner likely jumping at the opportunity to host the Wildcats’ legion of loyal supporters.
Other possibilities to keep an eye on are Dallas’ SERVPRO First Responder Bowl, which comes in at +550, while the LA Bowl (+610), AutoZone Liberty Bowl (+750) and Orlando’s Pop-Tarts Bowl (+875) being the other options for the Wildcats this week.
Kansas State played in last year’s Pop-Tarts Bowl, beating NC State, 28-19, while the Wildcats have never played in the Armed Forces Bowl, First Responder Bowl or the LA Bowl. The Wildcats last trip to Memphis for the Liberty Bowl was in 2019, when Klieman’s first team at Kansas State lost to Navy, 20-17, to cap off an 8-5 season in Manhattan.
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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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For the 2024-25 college football season, we currently project Kansas State to play in the Armed Forces Bowl in Ft. Worth, with +225 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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