Student tickets within the currently allotted section for Saturday's IU football game with Michigan are selling fast, IU vice president and director of athletics Fred Glass said Tuesday.
"We're selling tickets quicker than Nick's sells strombolis on a Saturday night," Glass said.
Roughly 1,000 of the $5 student tickets remain of the 11,338 originally available for the game.
Pairing two undefeated teams, IU will take on the No. 19 Wolverines Saturday at Memorial Stadium in a game that kicks off at 3:30 p.m. and will air on ESPNU. The game should feature plenty of offensive firepower on each side of the ball with fifth-year senior quarterback Ben Chappell leading the way for the Hoosiers and Michigan quarterback and early Heisman Trophy hopeful Denard Robinson guiding the Wolverines.
"The weather is going to be crisp and we've got a little bit later of a kick-off with the 3:30 p.m. start," said Glass. "I think all of those things are coming together to make people want to come to the game."
Though the student section expanded for three games last season, Glass wouldn't commit to the same scenario for Saturday's game. Expansion will depend on sales of regular tickets as well as how quickly the student section will sell out.
"It's too early to tell," Glass said of potentially expanding the student section. "That will all depend on how our overall sales are going: when and if the student section actually sells out and whether or not we have enough time to shift gears."
Roughly 4,000 regular, non-student tickets remain.
Regardless, Glass says its a been week for the IU Athletics ticket office. He said that extra temporary ticket staff is on hand this week, and that they sold about 1,500 game tickets on Monday. The ticket office at Assembly Hall is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. this week.
"That may or may not be the single-day record," Glass said, "But it's the most anyone around here can remember."
The Hoosiers drew 42,258 to last Saturday's home win over Akron. A win Saturday over the Wolverines would propel the Hoosiers to their first 4-0 start since 1990.
