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Kansas State Football Bowl Projections: Odds For Wildcats’ 2025-26 Bowl Game
The seventh season of Kansas State Wildcats football under head coach Chris Klieman’s watch is less than a month away from kickoff, with the Little Apple’s Big 12 program facing off against the Iowa State Cyclones in Dublin, Ireland on Aug. 23.
While the unique season opener is still weeks away from happening, it’s never too early to take a look at the upcoming CFB season and map out potential bowl game destinations for Klieman and the Wildcats, who are looking to extend their postseason streak to five years in 2025.
With that in mind, BetKansas.com broke down K-State’s bowl game odds for the upcoming season, with potential stops in San Antonio, Orlando, Phoenix, San Diego and wherever the first round of the 12-team CFP takes place being among the destinations out of the gate.
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Kansas State Bowl Projections: Odds For Wildcats 2025-2026 Bowl Game
Bowl | Location | Conference Opponent | Odds | Percentage Chance |
Alamo Bowl | San Antonio, TX | Vs. TBD (used to be Pac-12) | +250 | 28.6% |
CFP First Round | TBD | TBD | +400 | 20% |
Pop-Tarts Bowl | Orlando, FL | Vs. ACC/Notre Dame | +575 | 14.8% |
Rate Bowl | Phoenix, AZ | Vs. Big Ten | +660 | 13.2% |
Holiday Bowl | San Diego, CA | Vs. ACC | +750 | 11.8% |
The Field |
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| +900 | 10% |
While the last four years have consistently produced bowl game berths (and wins, more often than not), the Wildcats have yet to break through and reach the CFP, with a Big 12 championship game victory and a berth in the Sugar Bowl in 2022 being the closest thing yet. In 2025, we’re not fully sold on K-State breaking through, though we have high hopes that they will have a shot at reaching the first round (at least), which is why we give the first round of the CFP the second best odds of any postseason destination (at +400), behind the Valero Alamo Bowl (at +250).
After that, keep an eye on Kansas State to make the school’s first trip to Orlando for the Pop-Tarts Bowl since the Wildcats beat NC State, 28-19, in 2023, with +575 odds that Klieman’s bunch returns to Central Florida this December, while San Diego’s DIRECTV Holiday Bowl rounds out the list, at +750.
Looking through K-State’s postseason history, the Wildcats have played in the Alamo Bowl twice, falling to UCLA, 40-35, back in 2014 and to the Purdue Boilermakers by a final score of 37-34 back in 1998.
Throw in the Wildcats’ aforementioned nine-point victory over NC State in the 2023 Pop-Tarts Bowl, while K-State’s last trip to Phoenix was in 2017, when Bill Snyder led them to a 35-17 win over the Bruins to cap off an 8-5 season in Manhattan.
Kansas State has made three trips to San Diego for the Holiday Bowl, going 3-0 with victories in 1995, 1999 and 2002, beating Colorado State (54-21), Washington (24-20) and Arizona State (34-27).
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Kansas State Bowl Game History
Year | Bowl | Result |
2024 | Rate Bowl | Win, 44-41 vs. Rutgers |
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 |
2019 | Liberty Bowl | Loss, 20-17 vs. Navy |
Over the last six years, Kansas State has played in five bowl games, going 3-2 in those contests with victories over Rutgers in the 2024 Rate Bowl (44-41), NC State in the 2023 Pop-Tarts Bowl (28-19) and LSU in the 2021 Texas Bowl (42-20).
Throw in a pair of losses to Alabama in the 2022 Sugar Bowl (45-20) and Navy in the 2019 Liberty Bowl (20-17) and you have the Wildcats’ recent postseason history covered, as Klieman looks to get K-State over the hump and into the CFP for the first time this fall across Kansas sports betting.
USA Today photo by Candice Ward.
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For the current 2025-26 college football season, Kansas State is currently projected to play in the Valero Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, TX vs. a TBD team with the odds at +250 (28.6% chance).
As the CFB regular season has not kicked off yet, UNC is not currently playing in a bowl game. Their most recent bowl game was in the 2024 Rate Bowl win over Rutgers.
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