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It always blows my mind a little that Lexington has a greater population than Cincinnati.

Final Memorial Stadium Sellout Watch of the season. Thanks for following along with me this year. While attendance was more encouraging this season, we're still searching for our first official sellout crowd since 2016. Hopefully that comes in 2024. The ticket tracker for Northwestern tomorrow...

Here is the first Sellout Watch ticket tracker for Northwestern Saturday. Lots of available tickets. Should effectively be our "floor" attendance for the season.

I still love this idea and am 100% in on it if it ever becomes a possibility. 0% chance we get to 50k tickets sold for this one. I haven't updated the Sellout Watch ticket tracker for this game yet, but I peeked at the tickets website, and yikes, there are a lot of unsold tickets for this...

The only thing going against the strong attendance narrative is the game time. I have a theory there are more walk ups for a 2:30 or night game than 11am. The morning kicks can be tough for people with 2+ hour drives to Champaign.

Final Sellout Watch for tomorrow. Should be another good crowd. The ticket tracker is currently showing just under 50,000. The tracker though has trended below actual attendance by an average of 2,436 so far in 2023. So given that, my official guess is going to potentially be on the high side...

Updated Sellout Watch ticket tracker as of Thursday.

Here is the first Memorial Stadium Sellout Watch ticket tracker for Indiana. Ticket website is currently showing 48,469 tickets sold. There are several sections showing no tickets available for sale, and while I doubt they are truly 100% sold out, I'm dialing back some of the conservatism in the...

Final Sellout Watch update for Wisconsin. The ticket tracker shows an estimate of 49,602 tickets sold. Needing to correct for some of the conservative assumptions baked into the tracking methodology, along with nice October weather and an afternoon game (allowing for some walkup sales), I'm...

As of Wednesday morning:

Here's the Sellout Watch ticket tracker for Wisconsin. Several conservative assumptions baked in here. With it already showing an estimated 48,914 tickets sold (the highest number the tracker has shown all season), I'm confident announced attendance will be over 50,000.

To those following this series (though I can't blame anyone for losing interest in it...I am a little bit), sorry for the delay. Here is the Sellout Watch ticket tracker for Nebraska tonight. Tracker is showing an estimated 43,416 tickets sold. As usual, there are some conservative assumptions...

Yeah, I assume tickets given away and sold are being lumped together. When they announce attendance, it’s going to be one number of tickets sold even if 5,000+ of those were “sold” for $0. What I’m trying to predict is the announced attendance so I need to factor in tickets given away into the...

That has to include the tickets given away. I doubt all those tickets given to educators will be used, but it's all relevant in feeding into a projection for what announced attendance will be. Below is the final Sellout Watch ticket tracker for FAU. Estimated tickets sold is sitting at 45,928...

Updated Sellout Watch tracker: I continue to have my doubts that the horseshoe is as sold out as it is, but oh well. As usual, the endzone sections in the East/West Main stands are not showing tickets available for sale for the majority/entire sections, so the tracker assumes 100% unsold...