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Michigan State Football Bowl Projections: Odds For Spartans’ 2024-25 Bowl Game
What started as a dream debut season has quickly turned into the stuff of nightmares for Michigan State head coach Jonathan Smith, with the Spartans spiraling their way through a three-game losing streak after winning three in a row to open the year in East Lansing.
Michigan State’s most recent loss came in Eugene, where MSU was routed by fifth ranked Oregon, 31-10, knocking the Spartans to 3-3 for the year as the team heads into their bye week looking for answers.
With three ranked teams in the next four games, now is the time for MSU to turn things around, as Smith looks to find the right combination of options to get the Spartans the three wins they need to qualify for a bowl game for the first time since the 2021 Peach Bowl.
At BetMichigan.com, your source for the top Michigan sports betting promos, we developed exclusive odds which bowl game the Spartans will play in, based on the team’s performance through six weeks.
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Michigan State Football Bowl Projections: Odds For Spartans’ 2024-25 Bowl Game
Bowl | Location | Conference Opponent | Odds | Percentage Chance |
Armed Forces Bowl | Fort Worth, TX | Vs. Big 12 | +150 | 40.0% |
SERVPRO First Responders Bowl | Dallas, TX | Vs. Big 12 | +350 | 22.2% |
Quick Lane Bowl | Detroit, MI | vs. MAC | +500 | 16.7% |
Guaranteed Rate Bowl | Phoenix, AZ | Vs. Big 12 | +800 | 11.1% |
The Field/No Bowl |
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| +900 | 10.0% |
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Where Will Michigan State Play This Bowl Season?
Right now, it looks like MSU’s best bowl game odds are to play in a pair of DFW area contests, with Fort Worth’s Armed Forces Bowl (+150) and Dallas’ SERVPRO First Responders Bowl (+350) being the odds-on leaders to land the Spartans in 2024.
Throw in a local bowl game in Detroit’s Quick Lane Bowl (+500) and a warm weather option in Phoenix’s Guaranteed Rate Bowl (+800) and you have the full rundown of bowl game possibilities at the moment for Smith’s bunch.
A trip to the Dallas Fort Worth region would be the first for MSU since they played in the Cotton Bowl in successive seasons in 2014 and 2015 under head coach Mark Dantonio, while the Spartans haven’t played in Phoenix since the 2012 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, which they won over TCU, 17-16.
The only bowl game that MSU has played in Detroit was the old Cherry Bowl that was held in the Pontiac Dome, which the Spartans lost to Army, 10-6, in 1984, thus capping off a 6-6 campaign under head coach George Perles.
For now, Smith and the Spartans are focused on turning the tide on Michigan State’s three-game losing streak when MSU hosts unranked Iowa on Oct. 19 in a game that NBC will televise nationally at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time, with the course of the Spartans’ season likely on the line in the Big Ten nighttime clash.
Michigan State Bowl Game History Since 2019
Year | Bowl | Result |
2023 | No Bowl Game |
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2022 | No Bowl Game |
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2021 | Peach Bowl | Win, 31-21 against Pittsburgh |
2020 | No Bowl Game |
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2019 | Pinstripe Bowl | Win, 27-21 against Wake Forest |
The Spartans played in the 2019 Pinstripe Bowl under Mark Dantonio’s watch, beating Wake Forest 27-21 to cap a second straight 7-6 season in East Lansing.
Since 2019, Michigan State has appeared in two postseason games, winning the 2021 Peach Bowl over Pittsburgh out of the ACC, 31-21, in addition to knocking off another member of that conference in that ’19 Pinstripe Bowl. Michigan State missed out on bowl season in 2020, 2022 and 2023.
From 2007 to 2019, Dantonio made a bowl game 12 times in 13 seasons, only missing out in 2016 when Sparty went 3-9 overall and 1-8 in Big Ten play. The team made trips to the Champs Sports Bowl (2007), Capital One Bowl (2008 and 2010), Alamo Bowl (2009), Outback Bowl (2011), Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl (2012), Rose Bowl (2013), Cotton Bowl (2014 and 2015), Holiday Bowl (2017), Redbox Bowl (2018) and Pinstripe Bowl (2019).
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Michigan State Bowl FAQs
MSU’s best bowl game odds are to play in a pair of DFW area contests, with Fort Worth’s Armed Forces Bowl (+150) and Dallas’ SERVPRO First Responders Bowl (+350) being the odds-on leaders.
After six games, Michigan State is not eligible for a bowl yet. Michigan State’s most recent bowl game was in 2021 Peach Bowl, a win against Pittsburgh.
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