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Kansas Football Bowl Projections: Odds For Jayhawks’ 2025-26 Bowl Game
When it comes to getting right on the football field, there’s nothing quite as therapeutic as playing the Oklahoma State Cowboys, with the Kansas Jayhawks doing that this weekend, blasting the woebegone Sooner State squad, 38-21, to snap a two-game losing streak. The Jayhawks’ 17-point victory moved the team to 5-4 for the year, with games against unranked Arizona (on Saturday afternoon) and Iowa State (on Nov. 22), followed by a final weekend trip to Salt Lake City to play 17th ranked Utah on Nov. 28.
Right now, oddsmakers from DraftKings Sportsbook Kansas have KU down as a 4.5-point road underdog against the Wildcats in Tucson, with a +170 moneyline on KU, versus -205 on Arizona in the Week 11 clash.
For now, the team at BetKansas.com has our collective sights on this year’s bowl season, with the latest batch of KU bowl projections showing potential stops in Fort Worth, Shreveport, Tampa, Memphis and Dallas through nine weeks of play in Lawrence.
Stick with BetKansas.com for all of our Kansas sports betting insight throughout the college football season.
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Kansas Football Bowl Projections: Odds For Jayhawks’ 2025-26 Bowl Game
Bowl, Location | Conference Opponent | Odds | Percentage Chance |
Armed Forces, Fort Worth | vs. AAC/MWC/Sun Belt | +130 | 43.5% |
Independence, Shreveport, LA | Vs. American | +410 | 19.6% |
Gasparilla, Tampa, FL | Vs. American/ACC/SEC | +900 | 10% |
Liberty, Memphis | Vs. SEC | +1250 | 7.4% |
First Responder, Dallas | Vs. AAC/American | +1550 | 6.1% |
The Field |
| +900 | 10% |
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Where Might Kansas Go This Bowl Season?
As KU looks to build off the team’s resounding win over Oklahoma State, we’re upping the Jayhawks’ odds of playing in Fort Worth’s Armed Forces Bowl to +130, ahead of the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, which clocks in at +410 as Week 11 approaches.
When it comes to KU bowl game longshots, contests like Tampa’s Gasparilla Bowl (+900), Memphis’ AutoZone Liberty Bowl (+1250) Dallas’ First Responder Bowl (+1550) round out the list, as Lance Leipold’s team looks to earn a second straight win when they tangle with Arizona at 2:30 p.m. Central time on Saturday.
Looking back, KU’s last bowl game in Fort Worth was in 2005, when head coach Mark Mangino capped off a 7-5 season in Lawrence with a 42-13 romp over Houston. Kansas’ last trip to the Independence Bowl berth was way back in 1973 as a member of the Big 8, while Kansas’ last Liberty Bowl appearance came in 2022 against Arkansas, ending in a 55-53 shootout loss.
While KU has never played in Dallas’ First Responder Bowl, the program has made two postseason trips to the Lone Star State, in the 2005 Fort Worth Bowl and the 1961 Bluebonnet Bowl, which KU won over Rice, 33-7, in Houston.
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Kansas Bowl Game History Since 2005
Year | Bowl | Result |
2023 | Guaranteed Rate Bowl | Win, 49-36 vs. UNLV |
2022 | Liberty Bowl | Loss, 55-53 vs. Arkansas |
2008 | Insight Bowl | Win, 42-21 vs. Minnesota |
2007 | Orange Bowl | Win, 24-21 vs. Virginia Tech |
2005 | Fort Worth Bowl | Win, 24-13 vs. Houston |
All in all, KU’s recent bowl game history is thin, with five postseason trips since 2005. But the Jayhawks went 4-1 in those games, with victories over UNLV (49-36 in the 2023 Guaranteed Rate Bowl), Minnesota (42-21 in the 2008 Insight Bowl), Virginia Tech (24-21 in the 2007 Orange Bowl) and Houston (in the 2005 Fort Worth Bowl).
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Q&As
For the current 2025-26 CFB season, we have the Armed Forces Bowl in Ft. Worth, as our favorite with +130 odds (or 43.5%) of hosting the Kansas Jayhawks in 2025.
As we’re only through eight weeks of the regular season, nobody knows where KU will play this bowl season. They are not yet bowl eligible. The most recent postseason appearance for KU was in the 2023 Guaranteed Rate Bowl, a 49-36 win over UNLV.
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