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Less than 14 hours before their season-opening kickoff against Temple, Notre Dame still has what appears to be more than 100 tickets available, leaving up in the air whether they will continue a home sellout streak dating back to the Ara Parseghian era, God Rest His Soul.  Prices on remaining tickets appear to be either $45 or $75, plus whatever added fees get tacked on.  Remaining tickets appear to be in upper levels off the corners of end zones.  The limit on tickets per customer is surprisingly high, a whopping 12 tickets per customer.

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Notre Dame has sold out every home game in football since the mid-1960’s, with the exception of a Thanksgiving Day game against Air Force in 1973 when the students were home for the holiday but the game was moved to Thursday to accommodate television.

(Whether a streak began in 1964 or 1966 seems to be depend upon which Notre Dame webpage one checks, and seems to relate to Notre Dame adjusting their sellout figure to 59,075 in 1966, rather than using turnstile counts.)

Stadium capacity expanded to 80,795 after the mid-1990’s expansion that coincided with the Bob Davie era.

There does not seem to be a lot of discussion about how the “Campus Crossroads” project will impact official stadium capacity, although there have been periodic references to the project including a kind of “expansion” and refinement of the football stadium, including some impacts on seating, as well as the size of each seating space.  However, there seems, perhaps, to be more public focus on the jumbotron than on seating capacity statistics.

Interestingly enough, Notre Dame’s home game against Miami of Ohio, the fifth game of the year and third home game, already has sold out.  That also happens to be the one game that NBC is blacking out on broadcast television, in what presumably is a move to coerce more subscriptions to their cable network, the “NBC Sports Network.”

(Among road games, ABC apparently already has chosen to do the same with the Notre Dame-Boston College game, which is listed as being slated for ESPN, ABC’s cable network, and therefore blacked out on actual broadcast television.)

Added interest in the Miami of Ohio game could relate to the fact that Miami of Ohio is coached by former Notre Dame offensive coordinator Chuck Martin, and is currently 6-1 across their last seven games.  Their only loss in that stretch was a close bowl loss to a good SEC team.  Unless Notre Dame can “right the ship” after a disastrous 4-8 campaign in 2016, that Miami of Ohio game also could be at a pivotal moment when the fate of Brian Kelly hangs more and more in the balance.

Notre Dame’s second game, against Georgia, is reportedly the most expensive, and presumably the most highly sought-after ticket in college football for 2017, at least heading into the season.  Yet in the middle of the night heading into the season-opener, the Irish still have not sold out their game against a good Temple program.

Tickets also remain for Notre Dame home games against North Carolina State, Wake Forest and Navy.  Barring returns from opposing teams, there are no tickets available for Notre Dame home games against Georgia, Miami of Ohio and Southern Cal.

Additional Links & Resources

Limited Tickets Remain for Irish Football Home Opener Versus Temple;
Irish home football games against Georgia, Miami and USC are sold out

Notre Dame Stadium: Facts & Stats – UND.com

[From 2016] Irish Sellout Streak Reaches 250 Mark; A History of Loyal Fans 

Campus Crossroads: Stadium Enhancements – ND.edu