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Ticket Shopping May Involve Some Soul-Searching

Do you buy from the university for the sake of the sellout streak, or do you look for a better deal on the resale market?

Joe Hudson

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With three Nebraska football home games remaining in 2022, Husker fans in search of game tickets have a decision to make:

Buy from the university and help keep Nebraska's epic home sellout streak going? Or turn to the resale market and perhaps score better seats at a lower price?

Recent reports that a donor had bought all remaining 2022 tickets are not accurate, athletic director Trev Alberts said on the radio Tuesday night. Tickets remain for all three games, but he said the numbers are not daunting — in the low hundreds for each game.

A check of the Athletic Department's ticket site Wednesday afternoon confirmed Alberts' description of the situation. We got a little bleary-eyed counting all the green dots that represent available seats, but we're reasonably certain there were slightly under 600 for the three games combined.

Here are the numbers for each game, plus what the resale market looks like:

Illinois, Oct. 29: Roughly 120 tickets are available. At $70 plus fees, they are $10 cheaper than tickets to the following two home games. An average of a little over 13 tickets per day must be sold to reach sellout status before game day. On the SI Tickets site, resale prices range from $34 to more than $660 plus fees.

Minnesota, Nov. 5: Just under 200 tickets are available at $80 per seat plus fees. About a dozen tickets per day must be sold to reach sellout status. On SI Tickets, resale prices start at $44 and top out at more than $700 plus fees.

Wisconsin, Nov. 19: Nearly 270 tickets are available, again at $80 plus fees. With a month to go, about nine tickets per day will need to be sold to secure a sellout. On SI Tickets, resale prices range from $46 to a little over $800 plus fees.

1962 Missouri-Nebraska football ticket first game of sellout streak
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Nebraska's NCAA-record home sellout streak began 60 years ago — on Nov. 3, 1962, to be exact. Seven games into the Bob Devaney era, the Huskers fell that day to Missouri, 16-7. The streak now stands at 386 games, and the Huskers are 317-69 at home during that stretch.

Some fans say it's time to end the artificial life support that has sometimes been needed to keep the sellout streak going. But there are others who see the streak as an invaluable source of program identity and pride. When it comes to ticket purchases for these final 2022 home games, those two fan types might very well take opposite paths.

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JOE HUDSON

Joe Hudson has operated a Husker-related website since 1995 and joined forces with David Max to form HuskerPedia (later renamed HuskerMax) in 1999. It began as a hobby during his 35 years as a newspaper editor and reporter, a career that included stints at the Lincoln Star, Omaha World-Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer and Denver Post. In Denver, Joe was chief of the copy desk during his final 16 years at the Post. He is proud to have been involved in Pulitzer Prize-winning projects in both Philadelphia and Denver. Joe has been a Nebraska football fan since the mid-1960s during his childhood in Omaha. He earned his bachelor of arts degree in journalism and economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1976. He resides a few freeway exits north of Colorado Springs and enjoys bicycling and walking his dogs in his spare time. You can reach him at joeroyhud@outlook.com.

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