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Kansas State Football Bowl Projections: Odds For Wildcats’ 2024-25 Bowl Game
The Kansas State Wildcats are officially back on track after a Week 4 upset loss to BYU, with consecutive wins over Oklahoma State and Colorado to move to 5-1 for the season across Kansas sports betting.
The Wildcats’ most recent gridiron conquest came along the Front Range, with K-State knocking off Coach Prime and the Buffs’ by a 31-28 final score after quarterback Avery Johnson hit Jayce Brown for a 50-yard touchdown pass with 2:14 to play. Now, K-State finds themselves squarely in the Big 12 title race, sitting at 2-1 and a half-game back of the trio of BYU, Iowa State and Texas Tech, who are all 3-0 to date.
Kansas State can help their cause by taking care of business in Morgantown this weekend, when the Wildcats play West Virginia at 6:30 p.m. Central time on FOX.
Right now, oddsmakers from DraftKings Sportsbook Kansas list Chris Klieman’s bunch as a three-point road favorite over WVU, with a -155 moneyline on the visitors from the Little Apple, compared to +130 for the hometown Mountaineers.
All year long, BetKansas.com will update Kansas State’s hypothetical bowl game odds for the 2024 season, with this week’s update including potential stops in San Antonio, Orlando and wherever the 12-team CFP takes them.
Kansas State Bowl Projections: Odds For Wildcats 2024-2025 Bowl Game
Bowl | Location | Conference Opponent | Odds | Pct. Chance |
Valero Alamo Bowl | San Antonio, TX | Vs. TBD (formerly Pac-12) | -250 | 71.4% |
Pop-Tarts Bowl | Orlando, FL | Vs. ACC | +825 | 10.8% |
CFP | TBD | TBD | +1250 | 7.4% |
The Field/No Bowl |
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| +900 | 10.0% |
As of Monday morning, it looks like Kansas State’s most likely bowl game destination in 2024 is San Antonio’s Alamo Bowl, which the Wildcats have played in twice, doing so in 1998 and 2014 under legendary head coach Bill Snyder. Kansas State wound up losing both of those contests in the Alamo Bowl, falling to Purdue (37-34) to cap off an 11-2 run in 1998 while UCLA got the better of the Wildcats in 2014, pulling off a 40-35 victory over the Wildcats.
Overall, the Alamo Bowl holds a sizable lead over Orlando’s Pop-Tarts Bowl to land K-State this bowl season, with the former listed at -250 and the latter at +825, while the first round of the 12-team CFP is the other bowl game possibility this week, at a distant +1250.
Kansas State last made the long trek to Orlando a year ago when Klieman and company beat NC State, 28-19, capping off a 9-4 campaign in the Little Apple.
The Wildcats have yet to make the field of the CFP in the event’s decade-long existence, though 2024 represents the first ever expanded field, which opens the door for programs like K-State this season.
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 |
Kansas State last played in San Antonio in the 2014 season, when legendary head coach Bill Snyder lost a shootout to UCLA, 40-35, capping a 9-4 campaign in Manhattan.
The Wildcats played in last year’s Pop-Tarts Bowl inside Camping World Stadium in Orlando, beating the ACC’s North Carolina State, 28-19, to cap a 9-4 season. That was the second year in which Kansas sportsbook apps were active during college football season.
KSU hasn’t played in Phoenix since 2017. That year, Snyder led a 35-17 victory over the Bruins to finish the season with an 8-5 record, serving as the final bowl game victory in the legendary head coach’s coaching career. The program never made the CFP in the event’s four-team era, dating to the Playoff’s inception in 2014. The closest the school came was 2022, when KSU finished 12-2 and ranked ninth in the CFP top 25.
USA Today photo by Candice Ward
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For the 2024-25 college football season, Kansas State is currently projected to play in the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, with -250 odds (an implied probability of 72%).
Kansas State does not yet have enough victories to be bowl eligible. Their most recent bowl game was in the 2023 Pop-Tarts Bowl on Dec. 28, 2023.
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