Arizona Football Bowl Projections: Odds For Wildcats’ 2025-26 Bowl Game

For the first time in two years, the Arizona Wildcats will go bowling, thanks to Brent Brennan’s team pulling off a come-from-behind homecoming day 24-20 win over the Kansas Jayhawks in Tucson on Saturday afternoon, upping the school’s record to 6-3.

Arizona’s sixth win of 2025 came in large part because of the efforts of running back Quincy Craig, who scored the game-winning touchdown on a 24-yard run with 39 seconds on the clock, while quarterback Noah Fifita added 158 yards and two scores through the air for the winning Wildcats.

Fresh off Arizona’s sixth win of the year over Kansas, the team at BetArizona.com will keep tabs on the Wildcats’ 2025 bowl game odds, with this week’s update including potential stops in El Paso, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Fort Worth this season.

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Odds For Wildcats’ 2025-26 Bowl Game

Bowl, Location	Conference Opponent	Odds	Percentage Chance
Sun, El Paso	Vs. ACC	+170	37%
LA Bowl, Los Angeles	Vs. Mountain West	+210	32.3%
Rate, Phoenix	Vs. Big Ten	+850	10.5%
Armed Forces, Fort Worth	Vs. C-USA/American	+920	9.8%
The Field		+900	10%

Our top bowl game landing spot for the Wildcats right now is El Paso’s Tony The Tiger Sun Bowl, which holds +170 (or 37%) odds of hosting the U of A for the first time since 1992 come New Year’s Eve, ranking well ahead of the next closest option. That option is to venture west on I-10 to Los Angeles to play in the LA Bowl against a Mountain West team for the first time on Dec. 13, with the Golden State contest holding +210 (or 32.3%) odds of landing Arizona this bowl season, while Phoenix’s Rate Bowl is next in line, at +850.

The only other longshot contender to land Arizona this bowl season is the Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, at +920, with the Wildcats’ last trip to the Lone Star State for a bowl coming two years ago, when Jedd Fisch led them into the Alamo Bowl, while Arizona has never played in the LA Bowl.

The Wildcats’ last time in San Diego was in 2009 under head coach Mike Stoops, paving the way for the 6-3 Wildcats to make a grand return to a longstanding West Coast bowl game hotspot this season, while Arizona’s last trip to Phoenix for a bowl game in 2014, when they played in the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, with two trips to prior installations of the game now known as the Rate Bowl, in the 1989 Copper and the 1997 Insight bowls.

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Arizona Bowl Game History

Year	Bowl	Result
2023	Alamo Bowl	Win, 38-24 vs. Oklahoma
2017	Foster Farms Bowl	Loss, 38-35 vs. Purdue
2015	New Mexico Bowl	Win, 45-37 vs. New Mexico
2014	Fiesta Bowl	Loss, 38-30 vs. Boise State
2013	AdvoCare V100 Bowl	Win, 42-19 vs. Boston College

While Arizona’s bowl game history of late has been far from exhaustive, the Wildcats have managed to post a 3-2 mark in the school’s last five postseason contests, with wins over Oklahoma in 2023, as well as New Mexico in 2015 and Boston College in 2013. Throw in two losses, one coming to Purdue (38-35) in the 2017 Foster Farms Bowl and Boise State (38-30) in the 2014 Fiesta Bowl, and you have Arizona’s bowl game history covered. This year, Brennan’s team will look to get that elusive sixth win of the year when the Wildcats play the unranked Jayhawks on Saturday in Tucson, with an eye towards moving to 6-3 for the season with a victory in the Old Pueblo.

Arizona Wildcats Bowl Game FAQs

Arizona is currently projected to play in the Sun Bowl, with the Sun Devils potentially playing a ACC team in El Paso this season.

Arizona has now qualified for a bowl game.  Their most recent bowl game was in the 2023 Alamo Bowl win against Oklahoma.

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Christopher Boan

Christopher Boan is the lead writer at BetArizona.com after covering sports and sports betting in Arizona for more than seven years, including stops at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.