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

After two straight brutal, come-from-ahead losses to the Cougars of BYU and Houston, Saturday presented a prime get-right opportunity for the Arizona Wildcats, with head coach Brent Brennan’s bunch taking full advantage by shellacking an overmatched Colorado Buffaloes team in Boulder, 52-17.

The 35-point road win upped Arizona’s yearlong record to 5-3, with a home game against 5-4 Kansas awaiting them this weekend, followed by games against 25th ranked Cincinnati (on the road on Nov. 15), Baylor (at home on Nov. 22) and ASU (in Tempe on Nov. 28). Fresh off Arizona’s win over CU, 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, Phoenix, San Diego and Shreveport 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	+100	50%
Rate, Phoenix	Vs. Big Ten	+250	28.6%
Holiday, San Diego	Vs. ACC	+1300	7.1%
Independence, Shreveport	TBD (formerly vs. Pac-12)	+2400	4%
The Field		+900	10%

Our top bowl game landing spot for the Wildcats right now is the LA Bowl, which holds +100 (or 50%) odds of hosting the U of A for the first time come Dec. 13, ranking well ahead of the next closest option. That option is to venture up I-10 to Phoenix to play in the Rate Bowl against a Big Ten team on Dec. 26, with the Grand Canyon State contest holding +250 (or 28.6%) odds of landing Arizona this bowl season, while the DirecTV Holiday Bowl in San Diego is the next closest contender, at +1300 (or 7.1%).

The only other longshot contender to land Arizona this bowl season is the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, at +2400, with the Wildcats’ last trip to ‘The Boot’ coming in 2013 under Rich Rodriguez’s watch, 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 4-3 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 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 LA Bowl, with the Sun Devils potentially playing a Mountain West team in Los Angeles this season.

Arizona has not yet 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.