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Indiana Sells Out Football Season Tickets After Shocking National Title
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Indiana keeps ticking off shocking milestones on its ascention to becoming one of the nation’s top football programs.
On Tuesday, the Hoosiers announced they sold out their season ticket allotment just over than a month after winning the school’s first football national championship. Apple TV’s Tricia Whitaker, who is an Indiana alum, shared a screenshot from Indiana’s ticketing portal that read the following:
2026 IU Football season tickets are currently sold out. Fans interested in future availability are encouraged to join the official season ticket waitlist to receive updates as seats become available.
Yet another impressive development as a result of the Cignetti effect.
Curt Cignetti took over as Indiana’s coach on November 30, 2023, inheriting the losingest program in college football history. Since that day, IU is 27–2 overall and 17–1 in the Big Ten. The only losses came during an 11–2 season in 2024: at Ohio State during the regular season and at Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff. The Buckeyes and Fighting Irish wound up playing for the national championship.
In 2025, the Hoosiers went 16–0 and won the first national championship in the program’s 139-year history. In Indiana’s final four games, the team beat No. 1 Ohio State 13–10 in the Big Ten championship game, No. 9 Alabama 38–3 in the Rose Bowl, No. 5 Oregon 56–22 in the Peach Bowl and No. 10 Miami 27–21 in the CFP title game. It was an incredible run.
Cignetti has been rewarded with a new contract extension that has made him the third-highest-paid football coach in the nation. The deal will pay him $13.2 million per year and run through 2033.
Indiana’s success in football has come with full buy-in from the team’s fans. Hoosiers supporters packed College Football Playoff venues, and home games averaged 51,184 fans in 2025. The official capacity at Memorial Stadium is 53,524, so the team is already close to selling out every game.
Indiana selling out its full football season ticket allotment months in advance of its first home game is another sign of the changes Cignetti has brought to Bloomington.
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Ryan Phillips is a senior writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. He has worked in digital media since 2009, spending eight years at The Big Lead before joining SI in 2024. Phillips also co-hosts The Assembly Call Podcast about Indiana Hoosiers basketball and previously worked at Bleacher Report. He is a proud San Diego native and a graduate of Indiana University’s journalism program.
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