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Kansas Football 2025 Win Total: Betting Outlook & 7.5-Win Team History
After a disappointing 5-7 campaign that snapped the school’s two-year bowl streak under head coach Lance Leipold, the goal for the Kansas football team in 2025 is to get back to .500 or better. The program in Lawrence is out to prove that 2024 was a fluke.
This year, the win total for the Kansas Jayhawks for the 2025 college football season is 7.5, as of May 7 (at +110 odds on the over).
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2024 Performance Of 7.5 Win Total College Football Teams
Situation | Number of Teams | Percentage |
Under 7.5 Wins | 14 of 26 | 53.8% |
Over 7.5 Wins | 12 of 26 | 46.2% |
College Football Playoff Appearance | 1 of 26 | 3.8% |
Year-End CFP Playoff Top 25 Team | 4 of 26 | 15.4% |
BetKansas.com used 2024 over/under totals from FanDuel Kansas Sportsbook coming out of spring football last year for this story.
How Did Teams in KU’s Shoes Fare?
Of the 26 teams that started the CFB season with a win total over/under of 7.5 last year at FanDuel, 12 of them (or 46.2%) cleared the over while 14 (or 53.8%) won six games or fewer. Of the 26 teams surveyed for this story, four (or 15.4%) wound up in the CFP final top 25 rankings, including No. 10 SMU, No. 18 Iowa State, No. 21 Syracuse and No. 24 UNLV.
Of those four, the Mustangs made the CFP with an at-large bid out of the ACC. SMU finished 11-2 during the school’s first season in the expanded conference and reached the conference championship game before falling to Clemson, 34-31.
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Kansas Football Outlook 2025
This fall, Jayhawks backers for Kansas sports betting and KU fans will hope that Leipold’s bunch will avoid the early season gridiron pitfalls that ultimately tanked the season in 2024. The Jayhawks lost five straight against Illinois, UNLV, West Virginia, TCU and Arizona State by a combined total of 28 points.
To do that, they’ll have to start the season on the right foot against non-conference foes like Fresno State, Wagner and Missouri, who KU plays in Columbia in Week 3, before entering Big 12 play against West Virginia in Lawrence on Sept. 20.
With the right mixture of good play and good fortune, Leipold’s bunch can follow the script laid out by fellow FBS programs like SMU and Iowa State, who started with an over/under of 7.5 and soared to new heights at season’s end.
The road to redemption begins in earnest Aug. 23, when KU hosts Fresno State in the opener with an eye towards putting last year’s 5-7 campaign in the past and turning the page on a brighter future in Lawrence.
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Kansas Football Betting FAQ
A: DraftKings Kansas Sportsbook has Kansas’ 2025 win total at 7.5 wins, with the over at +110, as of May 7. The under has a line of -130 odds.
A: In the 2024 season, only 46.2% of 7.5-win total teams won eight or more games.
A: Just 15.4% of such teams (four of them) finished in the final College Football Playoff Top 25 rankings. The only one to go to the 12-team Playoff was SMU.
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