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Arizona State Football Bowl Projections: Odds For Sun Devils’ 2025-26 Bowl Game
One of the most anticipated seasons in Arizona State Sun Devils’ football history is a month away, with the reigning Big 12 champions kicking off the season against FCS program Northern Arizona in Tempe on Aug. 30. When they do so, Kenny Dillingham’s team will do so on the heels of an 11-3 campaign that saw ASU reach the CFP for the first time in school history, ultimately falling to the Texas Longhorns in the Peach Bowl (which served as a host in the CFP quarterfinal round), 39-31.
All year long, BetArizona.com will keep tabs on the Sun Devils’ postseason odds, with this week’s debut edition including potential contests in places like Las Vegas, San Antonio, Phoenix, Memphis and wherever the first round of the CFP is played. Can the Sun Devils replicate last year's run across Arizona sports betting?
ASU Football Bowl Projections
Bowl | Location | Conference Opponent | Odds | Percentage Chance |
Las Vegas Bowl | Las Vegas, NV | vs. Big Ten | +175 | 36.4% |
CFP first round | TBD | TBD | +350 | 22.2% |
Alamo Bowl | San Antonio, TX | TBD (used to be Pac-12) | +550 | 15.4% |
Rate Bowl | Phoenix, AZ | Vs. Big Ten | +800 | 11.1% |
Liberty Bowl | Memphis, TN | vs. SEC | +2400 | 4.0% |
The Field |
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| +900 | 10% |
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Where Will ASU Go This Bowl Season?
Entering the regular season, Dillingham and the Sun Devils rank atop the Big 12 odds board at bet365 Arizona, alongside the Kansas State Wildcats, with both programs sitting at +550, ahead of the Utah Utes and Texas Tech Red Raiders, who are co-listed at +600.
As for potential landing spots this bowl season, for now we’re going with the Sun Devils to make the program’s first trip up U.S. 93 to Las Vegas, playing against a team from the Big Ten in the 2025 SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl on New Year’s Eve, with +175 odds that ASU makes the Sin City bowl game in 2025.
Outside of Vegas, we’re riding high on ASU’s potential to make a return trip to the CFP in 2025, with +350 odds of the Sun Devils reaching the first round of the 12-team event this fall, ahead of potential stops at the Valero Alamo Bowl in San Antonio (+550) and the hometown Rate Bowl at Chase Field in Phoenix (+800).
Finally, the longest of longshots to land the Sun Devils this bowl season is the AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, which holds +2400 odds of hosting ASU on Jan. 2, when teams from the Big 12 and SEC meet inside the Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium in Memphis.
Looking at ASU’s postseason history, the Sun Devils have never played in the Alamo Bowl or the Liberty Bowl, while the program’s last 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.
Sun Devils fans don’t have to turn back the clock nearly as far to find the team’s last trip up 93 to Sin City, with ASU playing in the Las Vegas Bowl most recently in 2021, when they fell to Wisconsin by a final score of 20-13 under head coach Herm Edwards’ watch.
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ASU Bowl Game History
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 |
As stated above, ASU has a checkered history with bowl games over the last few years, with five postseason trips since 2017 and a 1-4 record in those contests, including last year’s eight-point defeat at the hands of the Longhorns in the Peach Bowl.
Prior to that, the Sun Devils’ most recent bowl game came in that 2021 Las Vegas Bowl, which they lost to the Badgers by seven points, while ASU’s last postseason win came two years prior, when they beat Florida State, 20-14, in the 2019 Sun Bowl.
In two bowl games preceding that victory, ASU lost to the Fresno State Bulldogs (31-20) in the 2018 Las Vegas Bowl, while the Sun Devils managed to lose to NC State by 21 points (52-31) in the Sun Bowl back in 2017.
This season, 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.
USA Today photo by Rob Schumacher/The Republic.
Q&As
For the current 2024-25 college football season, ASU is currently projected to play in the SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl in Las Vegas, NV vs. a TBD team with the odds at +175 (36.4% chance).
Due to their being a few weeks left until the start of the CFB regular season, ASU is not currently playing in a bowl game. Their most recent bowl game was in the 2024 CFP quarterfinals at the Peach Bowl, losing 39-31 to the Texas Longhorns.
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