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Kansas State Football Bowl Projections: Odds For Wildcats’ 2024-25 Bowl Game
The Kansas State Wildcats responded with gusto to the team’s first defeat of the 2024 season on Saturday, shellacking the Oklahoma State Cowboys by a 42-20 final score in Manhattan to move to 4-1 for the year across Kansas sports betting.
The Wildcats’ 22-point home win over Mike Gundy’s team came on the heels of a 38-9 rout in Provo by BYU, showing how well K-State can fare in the face of on-field adversity in head coach Chris Klieman’s sixth season in the Little Apple.
This weekend, Klieman and company head to Boulder to play Colorado at Folsom Field at 9:15 p.m. Central time on ESPN, with oddsmakers from DraftKings Sportsbook Kansas listing K-State as a five-point road favorite in the Big 12 showdown.
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, Houston, Orlando and Phoenix.
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) | +100 | 50.0% |
Texas Bowl | Houston, TX | Vs. SEC | +550 | 15.4% |
Pop-Tarts Bowl | Orlando, FL | Vs. ACC | +620 | 13.9% |
Guaranteed Rate Bowl | Phoenix, AZ | Vs. Big Ten | +875 | 10.3% |
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 an edge over fellow Texas bowl game the Texas Bowl to land K-State this bowl season, with the former listed at +100 and the latter at +550, while Orlando’s Pop-Tarts Bowl (+620) and Phoenix’s Guaranteed Rate Bowl (+875) are the other destinations this week.
Kansas State last played in the Texas Bowl in 2021, beating LSU by a final score of 42-20 to cap off an 8-5 campaign in Manhattan, while K-State’s last trip to Orlando came a year ago when Klieman and company beat NC State, 28-19.
The Wildcats’ last trip to the Valley of the Sun came in 2017, when Snyder capped off an 8-5 campaign with a 35-17 win over the Bruins, with K-State making four trips to the Phoenix bowl game between the 1993 Copper Bowl and that 2017 Cactus Bowl.
In that time, K-State posted a 3-1 in the Phoenix bowl game, with the program’s lone loss coming at the hands of the Syracuse Orange in 2001, with the Wildcats suffering a 26-3 loss that year to cap off a 6-6 campaign. This year, Klieman and company will look to build their postseason résumé, beginning with Saturday’s nationally televised showdown in Boulder against Coach Prime and the Colorado Buffaloes.
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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Q&As
For the 2024-25 college football season, Kansas State is currently projected to play in the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, with +100 odds (an implied probability of 50%).
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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