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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 three straight wins over Oklahoma State, Colorado and West Virginia to move to 6-1 for the season. The Wildcats’ most recent gridiron conquest across Kansas sports betting came along the Appalachian Mountains, where Chris Klieman’s team pulled off a 45-18 win over West Virginia, outgaining the home side, 414-295.
Now, K-State finds themselves squarely in the Big 12 title race, sitting at 3-1 and a half-game back of the trio of BYU and Iowa State, who are both 4-0 to date in conference play. The Wildcats also became bowl eligible with their sixth win this season.
Kansas State can help their cause by taking care of business in the annual Sunflower Showdown against unranked Kansas in Manhattan on Saturday, looking to extend a 15-game win streak in the series over the Jayhawks that extends back to 2008.
Right now, oddsmakers from DraftKings Sportsbook Kansas list Chris Klieman’s bunch as a 10-point home favorite over KU with a -360 moneyline on the Wildcats, compared with +285 for the visiting Jayhawks.
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) | -400 | 80% |
Texas Bowl | Houston, TX | Vs. SEC | +1425 | 6.6% |
Pop-Tarts Bowl | Orlando, FL | vs. ACC | +3700 | 2.6% |
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 will be 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 Houston’s Texas Bowl to land K-State this bowl season, with the former listed at -400 and the latter at +1425, while Orlando’s Pop-Tarts Bowl being the only other game listed this week, at +3700.
Kansas State last made the trek to the Space City in 2021, when Klieman and company beat the LSU Tigers, 42-20, to cap off an 8-5 campaign in the Little Apple. The Wildcats played in last year’s Pop-Tarts Bowl, handing NC State a 28-19 loss in the contest and making waves for playing in a postseason game that included an edible mascot for the first time in sports history.
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.
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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 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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