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Arizona State Football Bowl Projections: Odds For Sun Devils’ 2025-26 Bowl Game
The recipe for getting right for Arizona State football was to play a Sun Belt Conference team at home. The Sun Devils routed Texas State 34-15 on Saturday.
That win came on the heels of ASU’s come-from-ahead road loss to Mississippi State the week prior, as the Sun Devils scored 17 points in the second quarter to pull ahead of the Bobcats.
With three weeks of football behind us, BetArizona.com updated our running Sun Devils’ postseason odds.
ASU Football Bowl Projections
| Bowl, Location | Conference Opponent | Odds | Pct. Chance |
| Sun, El Paso, TX | Vs. Notre Dame/ACC | +175 | 36.4% |
| Holiday, San Diego | Vs. ACC | +310 | 24.4% |
| Las Vegas | Vs. Big Ten | +600 | 14.3% |
| Rate, Phoenix | Vs. Big Ten | +900 | 10% |
| CFP first round | TBD | +2400 | 4% |
| The Field or no bowl | +900 | 10% |
All year long, BetArizona.com – your home for Arizona sportsbook promos and the only place you will find these odds – will keep tabs on the Sun Devils’ postseason chances.
Entering Week 4 of the CFB regular season, we’re going with a pair of former Pac-12 postseason hotspots, the Sun and Holiday Bowls, as the program’s most likely postseason destinations. We have odds of ASU winding up in West Texas checking in at +175, while the team’s chances of flocking to America’s Finest City are currently listed at +310.
Those +175 odds for the Sun Bowl would equate to a 36.4% implied probability, if it were a wager offered at legal Arizona sports betting sites.
Outside of that, keep an eye on the Las Vegas Bowl, which has +600 odds of landing ASU in 2025, while Phoenix’s Rate Bowl (+900) and the College Football Playoff first round (+2400) are the longest of long shots for the Sun Devils right now.
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Arizona State Bowl History Since 2017
Year | Bowl | Result |
2024 | CFP Quarterfinals (Peach Bowl) | Loss, 39-31 vs. Texas |
2021 | Las Vegas Bowl | Loss, 20-13 vs. Wisconsin |
2019 | Sun Bowl | Win, 20-14 vs. Florida State |
2018 | Las Vegas Bowl | Loss, 31-20 vs. Fresno State |
2017 | Sun Bowl | Loss, 52-31 vs. NC State |
Looking at ASU’s postseason history, the Sun Devils have been frequent visitors to El Paso, Las Vegas and San Diego. The program’s most recent trip to Phoenix’s other bowl game besides the Fiesta Bowl was in 2015, when then head coach Todd Graham finished off a 6-7 campaign with a 43-42 loss to West Virginia in what was called the Cactus Bowl at the time.
The Devils’ last trip to El Paso was when Herm Edwards was the team’s coach in 2019, with ASU beating Florida State, 20-14. The Sun Devils played in the 2021 Las Vegas Bowl, falling to Wisconsin, 20-13. Looking back, the Tempe university’s last trip across Interstate 8 to San Diego was in 2013 when ASU lost to Texas Tech, 37-23, capping a 10-4 season on a sour note.
Sun Devils fans don’t have to turn back the clock nearly as far to find the school’s one and only appearance in the CFP, with ASU falling to Texas in last year’s Peach Bowl (which was a CFP quarterfinal site), 39-31, finishing off an 11-3 campaign in Tempe.
At bet365 Arizona Sportsbook, as of Sept. 15, the Sun Devils have +700 odds to return to the 12-team Playoffs.
ASU has a checkered history with bowl games over the past few years, with five postseason trips since 2017 and a 1-4 record in those contests.
In two bowl games preceding that 2019 Sun Bowl victory, ASU lost to the Fresno State Bulldogs (31-20) in the 2018 Las Vegas Bowl, while the Sun Devils managed to lose to N.C. State, 52-31, in the Sun Bowl back in 2017.
This season, coach Kenny Dillingham and company will look to flip the script on ASU’s recent bowl game blues, getting the Sun Devils back on top in the sport’s postseason and potentially making a return trip to the CFP while they’re at it.
ASU has +850 odds to win the Big 12 this season with FanDuel Arizona Sportsbook in what should be a tight league race.
USA Today photo by Rob Schumacher/The Republic
Q&As
For the current 2025-26 college football season, we project ASU to play in the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, at +175 odds for that outcome.
It’s too early in the season for ASU to be bowl eligible. The Sun Devils’ most recent bowl game was the 2024 College Football Playoffs quarterfinals at the Peach Bowl, when they lost 39-31 to the Texas Longhorns.
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