Michigan announced Tuesday morning that it had sold all of the nearly 25,000 tickets they had been given as part of the Cowboys Classic at Dallas Cowboys Stadium Sept. 1. The demand was so high, in fact, that it never got to the point of a public sale, with all 25K of the ducats scooped up by Victors Club members.
Tickets on the Michigan side, ranging in price from $125 to $285, were made available beginning Jan. 30.
“We have received unprecedented interest in tickets for the Cowboys Classic game with Alabama,” said UM chief marketing officer Hunter Lochmann in a statement. “The demand is on par or greater than our athletic department has ever seen.”
Alabama’s allotment of 25,000 tickets is expected to go on sale later this month.
As for the remaining 30,000 tickets — Cowboys Stadium has a capacity of 80,000 — Brett Daniels of the Cowboys ticket office told CFT in an email that “[t]here will also be a pre-sale to Cowboys season ticket holders in the near future. Because of demand, we do not expect to have a public on sale of tickets to the general public.”
Cowboys Stadium also has the capability of accommodating up to 30,000 standing room-only ticketholders. The availability of those tickets, Michigan’s release notes, will not be known until late April.
The Cowboys Classic will feature two storied football programs who have met just three times previously, the last coming in January of 2000 in the Orange Bowl. This time around, both teams should be highly ranked, with the defending national champion Tide likely coming in no lower than No. 3 in the major preseason polls and the Wolverines expected to be somewhere inside the Top Ten.
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