The Buckeyes are the hottest ticket in college football

With a No. 2 preseason rating and Heisman favourite C.J. Stroud beneath heart, curiosity in Ohio State soccer is thru the roof forward of the season, which begins in simply two weeks.

State of play: For the primary time ever, the Buckeyes are essentially the most in-demand crew in faculty soccer primarily based on cumulative ticket gross sales as of Aug. 12, per unique knowledge offered by StubHub.

• The highest 10: 1. Ohio State, 2. Alabama, 3. Texas, 4. Georgia, 5. Texas A&M, 6. Notre Dame, 7. Michigan, 8. Penn State, 9. Auburn, 10. LSU
• Ohio State’s year-over-year enhance in cumulative gross sales was additionally the biggest amongst all groups, adopted by Texas, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame and Nebraska.
• Wild stat: The Buckeyes account for practically 10% of all faculty soccer gross sales to this point on StubHub, together with greater than a 3rd of Huge Ten gross sales.

Convention name: The SEC leads all conferences for the third straight full-capacity season, accounting for 39% of all gross sales. They’re adopted by the Huge Ten (27%), Huge 12 (13%), ACC (8%) and Pac-12 (5%).

Prime 10 video games: Alabama (three), Ohio State (two) and Notre Dame (two) are the one groups with a number of video games in StubHub’s prime 10 by whole gross sales:

1. Alabama at Texas (Sept. 10)
2. Notre Dame at Ohio State (Sept. 3)
3. Texas A&M at Alabama (Oct. 8)
4. Oregon vs. Georgia (Sept. 3; Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium)
5. Michigan at Ohio State (Nov. 26)
6. Auburn at Alabama (Nov. 26)
7. Clemson at Notre Dame (Nov. 5)
8. West Virginia at Pittsburgh (Sept. 1)
9. Oklahoma at Nebraska (Sept. 17)
10. Florida State vs. LSU (Sept. 4; New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome)