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Arizona Football Bowl Projections: Odds For Wildcats’ 2024-25 Bowl Game
While it’s hard to pin down a specific turnaround point during most 12-game college football seasons, the moment wasn’t so abstract for the Arizona Wildcats in 2023. The moment above was when former head coach Jedd Fisch benched starting quarterback Jayden de Laura for a redshirt freshman out of Orange County, with Noah Fifita taking the starting role ahead of Arizona’s Week 5 clash with Washington and never looking back.
During his run as starting QB, Fifita completed 72.4% of his passes for 2,869 yards and 25 touchdowns, dicing up Pac-12 defenses while leading Arizona to seven straight victories to close out a 10-3 campaign that few in Tucson will forget anytime soon.
Fast-forward eight months and Fisch is out (having taken the same role at Washington), though Fifita and wideout Tetairoa McMillan are back in Baja Arizona with an eye towards leading the Wildcats to newfound heights in their new conference, and across Arizona sports betting.
Entering the 2024 season, oddsmakers list the Wildcats’ win total over/under at 7.5, with +1500 odds of winning the Big 12 title in their first year as a member.
Overall, Arizona ranks eighth on FanDuel Sportsbook’s Big 12 odds board, though the Wildcats will have a shot to show what they’re capable of early on, with a Week 3 road game against conference foe Kansas State awaiting them. In between, the Wildcats host former WAC rivals New Mexico on Aug. 31 and in-state FCS foe NAU on Sept. 7, giving first-year head coach Brent Brennan plenty of time to get his feet wet before the gut-churn of playing in the Little Apple in mid-September.
All fall long, BetArizona.com will update the Wildcats’ bowl game odds, with this week’s inaugural edition pinpointing games in places like Las Vegas, Orlando and Phoenix as likely landing spots for Fifita and company in 2024.
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Odds For Wildcats’ 2024-25 Bowl Game
Bowl | Location | Conference Opponent | Odds | Percentage Chance |
Las Vegas Bowl | Las Vegas, NV | vs. SEC | +250 | 28.6% |
Pop-Tarts Bowl | Orlando, FL | vs. ACC | +450 | 18.2% |
Guaranteed Rate Bowl | Phoenix, AZ | vs. Big Ten | +450 | 18.2% |
TaxAct Texas Bowl | Houston, TX | vs. SEC | +800 | 11.1% |
AutoZone Liberty Bowl | Memphis, TN | vs. SEC | +800 | 11.0% |
The Field / No Bowl |
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| +700 | 12.5% |
Our first batch of Arizona bowl game projections show the Las Vegas Bowl (+250), Pop-Tarts Bowl and Guaranteed Rate Bowl (+450 each) as the most likely landing spots for the Wildcats in 2024. Longshots to land the Wildcats include the TaxAct Texas Bowl and the AutoZone Liberty Bowl, which are listed at +800 apiece, while “the field” or no bowl whatsoever are listed at +700.
For reference, Arizona’s last trip to the Las Vegas Bowl came in 2008, when the Wildcats were coached by Mike Stoops and knocked off No. 17 ranked BYU, 31-21.
The Wildcats haven’t played a bowl game in the Valley since the 2014 season, when they lost the Fiesta Bowl to Boise State, 38-30, on New Year's Eve in Glendale.
Arizona has never played a bowl game in Florida or Tennessee, while the Wildcats have also never appeared in the Texas Bowl, though they did play in the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio twice (2010 and 2023) and in El Paso’s Sun Bowl three times, doing so in 1968, 1985 and 1992.
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Arizona Bowl Game History
Year | Bowl | Result |
2023 | Alamo Bowl | Win, 38-24 against Oklahoma |
2022 | No Bowl Game |
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2021 | No Bowl Game |
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2020 | No Bowl Game |
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2019 | No Bowl Game |
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Arizona’s last five years have seen one bowl game, with the Wildcats reaching the Alamo Bowl last season to snap the program’s five-year postseason drought. Prior to that, the Wildcats’ last trip to a bowl game came in 2017, when they lost the Foster Farms Bowl in the Bay Area to Purdue by a 38-35 score to finish off the Rich Rodriguez era in Tucson.
The Wildcats reached bowls in four straight seasons from 2012 to 2015 and three straight under Stoops from 2008 to 2010, with Arizona missing bowl season entirely from 1999 to 2007.
Arizona Wildcats Bowl Game FAQs
For the upcoming 2024-25 college football season, Arizona is currently projected to play in the Las Vegas Bowl in Las Vegas, NV vs. an SEC team with the odds at +250 (28.6% chance).
Since it is the summer, Arizona is not currently playing in a bowl game due to the season not yet begun. Their most recent bowl game was in the 2023 Alamo Bowl win against Oklahoma.
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