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Kansas State Football Bowl Projections: Odds For Wildcats’ 2025-26 Bowl Game
It took longer than expected, but the Kansas State Wildcats finally captured the team’s sixth win of the year in Manhattan on Saturday, finishing off a disappointing 6-6 season with a resounding win over an overmatched Colorado Buffaloes team.
Kansas State’s 24-14 victory over the Buffaloes came on the heels of a 51-47 heartbreaker in Salt Lake City against 12th ranked Utah, getting the Wildcats into a bowl game for the fifth year in a row.
After that sixth win of 2025, BetKansas.com produced the latest batch of our yearlong bowl game hypothetical odds for the Wildcats, as Klieman and company have now officially gotten the Wildcats back to a bowl game for a fifth straight season in 2025.
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Kansas State Bowl Projections: Odds For Wildcats 2025-26 Bowl
Bowl, Location | Conference Opponent | Odds | Percentage Chance |
Armed Forces, Fort Worth | Vs. American/C-USA | +110 | 47.6% |
Liberty, Memphis, TN | Vs. SEC | +200 | 33.3% |
Independence, Shreveport, LA | TBD (formerly vs. Pac-12) | +1900 | 5% |
Alamo, San Antonio | TBD (formerly vs. Pac-12) | +3000 | 3.2% |
The Field/No Bowl |
| +900 | 10% |
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Right now, it seems likely that Kansas State is heading south to play a bowl game in Texas, as Fort Worth’s Armed Forces Bowl looks like a potential destination, at +110.
Outside of Fort Worth, K-State holds +200 odds of playing in the Liberty Bowl in Memphis on Jan. 2, while Shreveport’s Independence Bowl (+1900) and the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio (+3000) are K-State’s other options this bowl season.
Looking back, the Wildcats have only been to Shreveport once, doing so in 1982 under Jim Dickey’s watch to cap off a 6-5-1 campaign in Manhattan, while K-State’s last trip to Memphis was in 2019, when they lost to Navy, 20-17. Klieman has never coached Kansas State in the Alamo Bowl, though the Wildcats did play in the game twice under legendary coach Bill Snyder, doing so in 1998 and 2014, with K-State losing both contests.
Kansas State has never played in the Armed Forces Bowl, though the Wildcats have played in the Lone Star State a number of times over the years, including in the Texas Bowl in 2006 and 2021, along with those two Alamo Bowl appearances and three trips to the Cotton Bowl (in 1996, 2000 and 2011).
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Kansas State Bowl Game History Since 2019
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 previous six years, Kansas State has played five bowl games, going 3-2 in those contests with victories over Rutgers in the 2024 Rate Bowl (44-41), North Carolina 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. Klieman looks to get K-State over the hump and into the CFP for the first time this fall.
The Wildcats have gone 12-14 all-time in bowl games. Highlights among those wins include the Holiday Bowl (1995, 1999 and 2002), Fiesta Bowl (1997) and Cotton Bowl (2000).
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We project Kansas State to play in the Armed Forces Bowl in Ft. Worth, with +110 odds (47.6% chance).
Kansas State is now bowl eligible. Their most recent bowl game was the 2024 Rate Bowl on Dec. 26, 2024, a 44-41 victory over Rutgers.
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