illiniswish09
- Northwest Suburbs
Sorry if I’m late to the party but is this happening?
Pregame: Illinois vs Western Illinois, Friday, August 29th, 6:30pm CT, Peacock
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Sorry if I’m late to the party but is this happening?
Pushing out something new: the Memorial Stadium Sellout Watch with updates for the entire 2025 slate of home games.
About this new view:
I am no longer tracking ticket availability by section and have instead found a semi-automated way to scrape a count of available tickets, plus an estimated count of unsold tickets that have not yet been made available. My thought is that since a handful of games this season may sell out, if I want to do any meaningful tracking and projection, I need to track all the games now - waiting for the week before the game won't be as exciting. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback on this new view.
Update on Western Illinois:
The tracker currently shows an estimated 52,620 tickets sold. Only about 100 tickets per day have been selling as far as I can tell.
About this new view:
I am no longer tracking ticket availability by section and have instead found a semi-automated way to scrape a count of available tickets, plus an estimated count of unsold tickets that have not yet been made available. My thought is that since a handful of games this season may sell out, if I want to do any meaningful tracking and projection, I need to track all the games now - waiting for the week before the game won't be as exciting. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback on this new view.
Update on Western Illinois:
The tracker currently shows an estimated 52,620 tickets sold. Only about 100 tickets per day have been selling as far as I can tell.
I should also note that the ticket site data I'm pulling has some question marks around it.
1. Don't ask me why there are 123 tickets available for the Ohio State game. But that's what it shows. See below:
2. According to this data behind the scenes, Memorial Stadium also has a total capacity of 67,314....not sure what that's about.
I think for my purposes the "AVAILABLE" count in the screen shot above is accurate enough. I did a manual count of green dots for the WIU game and it was off by 131 from the 2573 shown above.
Have to sign up for Peacock for 1 game again then cancel
Annual reminder for everyone that...
I wonder if the difference in capacity comes from those seats directly behind the player benches which are typically covered by tarps on game days because the view of the field is obstructed by the players.
If we don't run for 400 yards against WIU I will be disappointed.
I already considered that actually. There are exactly 1,500 seats tarped off typically - 750 on each side. I actually believe those seats are included in the 60,670 number...
Curbelo Fanboy
BERTBALL IS LIFE
I met my still wife at WIU. I am from the Quincy area & had never heard of the glorious thing called a horseshoe until she took me there for dinner one night. She is from Springfield & knew all about the horseshoe. I knew that night she was the one!
Do members on here meet up somewhere or do we all stay incognito from actually meeting?
Illinicpa14
- Chicago
Luther Heads doing a signing Aug 23 at Gameday…first time he’s done any in a long time.
Are you talking about the first half?I'm calling for a 40 point drubbing
Somewhere around 47-7
Early line on ESPN is ILL -45.5
Look for me. I’ll be wearing Orange, so easy to find.
And we will be in Grange Grove for as long as Memorial Stadium stands:
| Date | Opponent | Result | PF | PA | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 08-29 07:30.PM.ET | W Illinois | (0-0) | 99 % | 49 | 7 |
| Date | Opponent | Result | PF | PA | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 08-29 07:30.PM.ET | W Illinois | (0-0) | 99 % | 49 | 7 | |
| Sat 09-06 12:00.PM.ET | at | Duke | 58 (0-0) | 59 % | 27 | 24 |
| Sat 09-13 07:00.PM.ET | W Michigan | 113 (0-0) | 93 % | 38 | 14 | |
| Sat 09-20 04:00.PM.ET | at | Indiana | 12 (0-0) | 27 % | 20 | 28 |
| Sat 09-27 04:00.PM.ET | USC | 14 (0-0) | 41 % | 27 | 30 | |
| Sat 10-04 04:00.PM.ET | at | Purdue | 81 (0-0) | 69 % | 31 | 24 |
| Sat 10-11 04:00.PM.ET | Ohio St | 1 (0-0) | 8 % | 14 | 35 | |
| Sat 10-25 04:00.PM.ET | at | Washington | 27 (0-0) | 42 % | 24 | 27 |
| Sat 11-01 05:00.PM.ET | Rutgers | 45 (0-0) | 63 % | 28 | 23 | |
| Sat 11-15 04:00.PM.ET | Maryland | 49 (0-0) | 67 % | 30 | 23 | |
| Sat 11-22 04:00.PM.ET | at | Wisconsin | 34 (0-0) | 41 % | 24 | 27 |
| Sat 11-29 04:00.PM.ET | Northwestern | 71 (0-0) | 79 % | 31 | 20 |
Psssh, the first 10 minutes
That would be a massively disappointing season
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
Our fan base expectations might be slightly too high. Many expect a sure-fire 9-10 win season, but no computer model sees that.
Vegas O/U is at 7.5.
This model, whatever it is, predicts 7-5.
KFord predicts 7-5.
I completely agree objectively, but this sort of seemingly reasonable preseason hype does not come around often (ever?) for us so I'm personally going with unmitigated optimism and enjoying it! ILL
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