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Kansas State Football Bowl Projections: Odds For Wildcats’ 2025-26 Bowl Game
The glow-up in the Little Apple took another step forward for the Kansas State Wildcats over the weekend, as Chris Klieman’s team beat the brakes off the Kansas Jayhawks for the program’s 17th straight win over KU, moving K-State to 4-4 for the year. The Wildcats’ 25-point win in Lawrence marked the team’s second straight victory, coming on the heels of K-State’s 41-28 demolition of TCU in the Little Apple while setting the stage for Saturday’s clash with 13th ranked Texas Tech at home on Saturday.
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Kansas State Bowl Projections: Odds For Wildcats 2025-26 Bowl
Bowl, Location | Conference Opponent | Odds | Percentage Chance |
Gasparilla, Tampa | American/ACC/SEC | +175 | 36.4% |
First Responder, Dallas | American/ACC | +200 | 33.3% |
Armed Forces, Fort Worth | American/C-USA | +525 | 16% |
Independence, Shreveport, LA | TBD (formerly vs. Pac-12) | +2400 | 4% |
The Field |
| +900 | 10% |
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Right now, it’s hard to project where exactly Kansas State will wind up this bowl season, as the Wildcats are still at .500 and in need of going 2-2 or better down the stretch to reach the six wins required to do so. What we can say for sure is that the Wildcats are currently a sizable underdog against Texas Tech this weekend, with oddsmakers from DraftKings Sportsbook Kansas listing K-State at +220 to win against the Red Raiders, with Klieman’s bunch coming in as a seven-point home underdog in the contest.
With that in mind, we’re giving Tampa’s Gasparilla Bowl the edge when it comes to the most likely landing spot for the Wildcats in 2025, with +175 odds of hosting K-State in 2025, while Dallas’ First Responder Bowl (+200), Armed Forces Bowl (+525) and the Independence Bowl in Shreveport (+2400) being the other options entering Week 9.
Kansas State has never played a bowl game in Tampa, though the Wildcats have made several trips to the DFW region over the years, with stops at the Cotton Bowl in 1996, 2000 and 2011. Throw in stops at the Texas Bowl in 2006, 2016 and 2021 and San Antonio’s Alamo Bowl in 1998 and 2014 and you have a decent snapshot of the Wildcats’ deep postseason history in the Lone Star State. 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, though that remains an option for Kansas State in 2025.
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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 Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa, with +175 odds (36.4% chance).
Kansas State is not yet 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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