University of Kansas

Saturday’s Kansas Jayhawks-Iowa State Cyclones football game in Lawrence is sold out

Giddy fans celebrate on the field after their Kansas Jayhawks beat the Duke Blue Devils 35-27 at Booth Memorial Stadium in Lawrence. KU improved to 4-0 with the Saturday afternoon victory (Sept. 24, 2022).
Giddy fans celebrate on the field after their Kansas Jayhawks beat the Duke Blue Devils 35-27 at Booth Memorial Stadium in Lawrence. KU improved to 4-0 with the Saturday afternoon victory (Sept. 24, 2022). AP

Saturday’s Kansas-Iowa State football game is officially a sellout.

The KU athletic department announced via Twitter on Friday night that all seats had been sold for the 2:30 p.m. game between the Jayhawks (4-0, 1-0) and Cyclones (3-1, 0-1) at Booth Memorial Stadium.

The official capacity of the stadium is 47,233. That was the announced crowd for KU’s 35-27 win over Duke last Saturday in Lawrence.

This marks two straight football sellouts for KU. Last time KU had back-to-back home games sold out was during the 2009 season when KU had consecutive sellouts against Oklahoma and Nebraska on Oct. 24 and Nov. 14 respectively,

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Gary Bedore
The Kansas City Star
Gary Bedore covers KU basketball for The Kansas City Star. He has written about the Jayhawks since 1978 — during the Ted Owens, Larry Brown, Roy Williams and Bill Self eras. He has won the Kansas Sportswriter of the Year award and KPA writing awards.
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