Texas sells out of season football tickets for second consecutive year
The Texas Longhorns athletic department announced Tuesday that the UT football program has sold out of season tickets for the 2023 season, the Longhorns’ last in the Big 12. UT announced that for the second consecutive season and the third time in five years along with 2019 and 2022, an all-time record for season ticket sales has been set.
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The program announced that season ticket sales eclipsed 68,000, a figure which does not include student tickets. Ticket sales to students are expected to surpass 20,000, per the school.
“The passion and loyalty shown by Longhorn Nation is incredible,” said Longhorns athletic director Chris Del Conte in a statement. “We can’t wait to see the burnt orange and white faithful back at DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium on September 2 for the opening of a historic season. Texas truly does live within Longhorn Nation, forever!”
The Longhorns have a home slate in 2023 featuring Rice and Wyoming, plus Big 12 foes Kansas, BYU, Kansas State, and Texas Tech.
High-profile games like contests with Oklahoma, Alabama, and TCU are slated to take place on the road this year. The Longhorns and Sooners meet annually in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Texas makes a trip to Tuscaloosa, Ala. for the second half of a home-and-home with the Crimson Tide. Steve Sarkisian’s program treks to Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth on November 11 for the last league matchup with the 2022 national finalist Horned Frogs.
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Excitement for Texas’ first season as members of the Southeastern Conference in 2024 likely contributed to the lofty number of tickets sold. The move, originally announced in the summer of 2021 and scheduled for July 1, 2024, helped the Longhorns reap the benefits of fan excitement regarding the arrival of national name brands, with the trip to Austin from the Crimson Tide in 2022 serving as a sneak peak.
Texas set an all time DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium record for attendance for that game, with 105,213 braving the September afternoon heat to witness the Longhorns fall 20-19 to Nick Saban’s program.
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Those fans were rewarded when earlier in June, the Southeastern Conference announced that as part of Texas initial schedule as members of the league, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, and Mississippi State would trek to Austin for conference games. Plus, the allure of a renewal of the rivalry with Texas A&M and other high profile non-conference games like Ohio State in 2026 and Michigan in 2027 convinced the record number of Horns to join the season ticket holder ranks.
Three game mini plans and group ticket packages will go on sale mid-July based on any returned visiting team allotments, according to the school, with any available single-game tickets going on sale in August.
Texas opens its 2023 schedule with the Rice Owls on September 2.
