When the Nebraska football team opens a pivotal 2025 season in Kansas City against the Cincinnati Bearcats, tens of thousands of people will be watching. While most people expected the game at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City to be packed, Husker AD Troy Dannen confirmed ticket sales are quite impressive.
Dannen appeared on Sports Nightly on Tuesday night and gave several updates. Among them were the ticket sales so far for the game that will open the season for both the Huskers and Bearcats.
Dannen said roughly 62,000 tickets have sold for the Nebraska football team’s opener on the neutral site. Granted, it’s expected that most of the tickets sold are Husker fans, given that KC is far closer to Lincoln and Omaha than it is Cincy.
Arrowhead crowd for Nebraska opener is shaping up to be wildly one-sided
When the stadium does sell out, and it does appear with just a few months to go, they’ll get to the 76,000 Arrowhead capacity, almost all of the people there will be dyed in the wool Husker fans. In other words, Dannen’s update can’t be good news for the Big 12 program, which is still trying to find its footing in its new conference.
There was a time when this game was much more of a heavyweight fight between the two programs. Back there and back then, Luke Fickell had the Bearcats on the verge of being a Group of 5 power.
Then he left for Wisconsin, and Cincinnati left the AAC for the Big 12. Neither move worked very well for either party.
It's not even June yet, but the Nebraska football team seems pretty confident it’ll have what nearly amounts to a home game when it opens the season and starts what it hopes is a march to the College Football Playoffs.