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Arizona Football Bowl Projections: Odds For Wildcats’ 2025-26 Bowl Game
The Arizona Wildcats’ renaissance season on the football fields of the Big 12 earned another conquest in Tucson on Saturday, with Brent Brennan’s bunch knocking off unranked Baylor, 41-17, to earn the team’s fourth straight win.
Arizona’s eighth victory of 2025 came on the heels of wins over Colorado (52-17), Kansas (24-20) and Cincinnati (30-24), further bolstering the program’s first bowl eligible campaign since going 10-3 in 2023.
Fresh off Arizona’s eighth win of the year over Baylor, the team at BetArizona.com will keep tabs on the Wildcats’ 2025 bowl game odds, with this week’s update including potential stops in Los Angeles, El Paso, Phoenix and Fort Worth this season.
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Odds For Wildcats’ 2025-26 Bowl Game
Bowl, Location | Conference Opponent | Odds | Percentage Chance |
LA Bowl, Los Angeles | Vs. Mountain West | +110 | 47.6% |
Sun, El Paso | Vs. ACC | +240 | 29.4% |
Rate, Phoenix | Vs. Big Ten | +1100 | 8.3% |
Armed Forces, Fort Worth | Vs. C-USA/American | +2250 | 4.3% |
The Field |
| +900 | 10% |
Our top bowl game landing spot for the Wildcats right now is to venture west on I-10 to Los Angeles to play in the LA Bowl for the first time against a Mountain West team on Dec. 13, with the Golden State contest holding +110 (or 47.6%) odds of landing Arizona this bowl season.
Throw in El Paso’s Tony The Tiger Sun Bowl, which holds +240 (or 29.4%) odds of hosting the U of A for the first time since 1992 come New Year’s Eve, followed by Phoenix’s Rate Bowl at +1100 (or 8.3%) and you have the Wildcats’ upper end bowl games covered for 2025.
The only other longshot contender to land Arizona this bowl season is the Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, at +2250, 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, potentially paving the way for the 8-3 Wildcats to make a grand return to a longstanding West Coast bowl game hotspot this season.
Finally, 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 L.A. Bowl, with the Sun Devils potentially playing a Mountain West team 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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