Tennessee-UTEP is sold out, running Neyland Stadium sellout streak to 20 games
Tennessee Football’s home game against UTEP on November 23 is officially sold out, running the sellout streak at Neyland Stadium to 20 straight games. Athletic director Danny White announced the sellout on social media on Wednesday afternoon.
Neyland’s sellout streak dates back to a 63-6 win over Akron on September 17, 2022. All seven home games last season were sold out and the final six home games of the 2022 season were capacity crowds.
Tennessee is 23-4 at home during the Josh Heupel era. The Vols are 18-1 over their last 19 home games, dating back to the start of the 2022 season.
Tennessee announced on August 15 that five home games for this season were already sold out — Kent State, Florida, Alabama, Kentucky and Mississippi State — with limited single-game tickets available for this season opener against Chattanooga and the UTEP game.
Chattanooga was announced as a sellout on August 26, five days before the start of the new season.
No. 7 Tennessee (7-1, 5-1 SEC) hosts Mississippi State (2-7, 0-5) on Saturday night (7 Eastern Time, ESPN) before going to No. 2 Georgia next week. The Vols close the home schedule against UTEP before playing the regular-season finale at Vanderbilt on November 30.
Tennessee ranked No. 7 in first College Football Playoff Top 25
Tennessee on Tuesday night was ranked No. 7 in the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season in the new 12-team playoff era. The projected bracket had the Vols as the No. 8 seed hosting No. 9 Indiana in the first round of the playoffs.
Oregon was ranked No. 1 ahead of Ohio State, Georgia, Miami and Texas. Penn State was No. 6, just ahead of the Vols, and Indiana was ranked No. 8. The first-round matchups in the projected bracket had No. 12 Boise State going to No. 5 Ohio State, No. 11 Alabama going to No. 5 Texas and No. 10 Penn State going to No. 7 Penn State.
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Vols have sold out season tickets two straight years, 15,000+ on season-ticket interest list
Tennessee led the SEC in total home attendance (713,405) and average home attendance (101,915) last season. The Vols were ranked third and fourth nationally in those categories, respectively.
This season marks the third time in 23 years that Tennessee has sold out football season tickets, doing so last May and in August 2016.
It was announced in April that Tennessee had sold out its season-ticket allotment of 70,500 for a second straight season and at the time there was a “season ticket interest list” of 15,000 fans.
“People around the country are trying to figure out how to make their stadiums smaller,” White said during the Big Orange Caravan stop in Nashville in April. “We’re 102,000 strong and sold out for the season. We’re fortunate at Tennessee to have what I believe to be the best fanbase in sport.”
