1.2 Away Game Tickets [Index]
Notre Dame included chances for road games for 2001 when they held their lottery for home game tickets. They are not currently selling any at their website. [Top]
They've been selling out games longer than ND has.[Top]
Their ticket area doesn't say anything about availability for the ND game, but you can start here on your journey to buy tickets. [Top]
Buying season tickets is the only way to get them from the university. [Top]
It appears from their website one must buy season tickets, as they do not have a spot on their application for single game tickets for ND.[Top]
Fill out this Adobe form, send it in, and you'll be set. This game generally does not sell out. [Top]
1.3 Home Game Tickets [Index]
No. [Top]
Hell no. [Top]
Notre Dame has conducted their lottery. Results will be mailed in mid-July.
Notre Dame says that every game is a sell out, but in the past they have received additional tickets (usually from road teams who did not sell out) which go on sale to the general public around the beginning of August.
If you are out of luck to this point, the easiest way to get in is to
a) be very good friends with an alumni or b) scalp. Scalping is legal in
the state of Indiana, but not on the grounds of the University, so be very
careful buying tickets on campus. However, there are usually ample opportunities
to buy off campus, especially near the tollway exit where they are often
lined up with huge wads of tickets. Scalper prices vary per opponent and
record (Note: All tickets are regularly priced $38.). The games versus Tennessee
will be expensive, while games versus Pittsburgh and Navy in the past couple
of years have gone for face value.
Recently, South Bend has passed an ordinance on scalping. Although the legal
haggles are still being sorted out, for the time being, scalping is not
permitted in the city of South Bend, which borders the west and south side
of the campus. This is not to say that there are not vendors in this area,
but they are being hunted and ticketed. Nothing has changed out near the
turnpike exit or north of campus.
With the recent downturn in Irish fortunes usually comes a surge in tickets
available outside of the campus on game day. This may not be true this year
for Tennessee, but should hold for Navy and the remaining home games.
There is a third option for the big matchup games. Those with extra tickets
are encouraged to return their tickets to the Notre Dame box office where
they attempt to resell them on game morning starting three hours before
kickoff. The line will start on the east side of the stadium at the ticket
office there. Expect to get in line very early in the morning for any shot
at a high profile game. For the Florida State game in 1993, some people
got in line as early as Thursday morning before that game and did manage
to get in. However, for the Navy game in 1995 there were 150 unsold tickets
at the office. Mileage will vary.
Now a fourth option -- Ebay. You can
try your luck on bidding on some tickets now. They're going about $100 a
piece for Stanford
and so on. However, unless you want more than 2 tickets together, I would
skip any bids for late season home games as experience as shown tickets
for face value can be obtained around the stadium.
For a more complete discourse about getting tickets via scalping, check
out this page.
This year, the tickets are different for each game. On every real ticket, there is a small interlocking ND hologram.
Many people come to Notre Dame with no intention of going to the game. They sit by their cars with radios or portable TVs, or go inside their RV's to watch the game. On occasion, for a high demand game, the Joyce Athletic Center will show the game on projection TV on the basketball court. Many people head for the local watering holes to watch the game. [Top]