UCF Sold its initial allotment in less than 24 hours

The UCF fanbase are eager to see how their team measures up to a Power 5 program. Auburn Undercover has learned the program sold out its initial allotment of tickets — each program gets 12,500 to sell — Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl in less than 24 hours.

“I just got a call late night, UCF sold out their total allotment of 12,500 in their first day of sales, so UCF is fired up,” Peach Bowl CEO and president Gary Stokan said. “That’s got a record in the CFP era. I don’t know that anybody sold out in first day of sales.”

Tickets for the game could quickly become hard to come by.

“I got to believe Auburn is blowing through theirs as well,” Stokan said.

With strong ticket sales throughout the fall — this is the first Peach Bowl at the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium — organizers have a small allotment of tickets on sale through the game’s official website.

“It’s interesting, we really work hard during the year to sell a lot of tickets, when you put the 12,500 allotments on top of that, we are really down to less than 2,000 upper level tickets,” Stokan said. “You get a bump from announcement of teams.”

While Auburn faces a unique situation of playing three straight games in the downtown venue, Stokan isn't worried about that having an impact on the game's attendance. The Tigers are coming off the SEC Championship game and are scheduled to play in the Chick-fil-A kickoff game against Washington to open the 2018 season. Stokan views the Peach Bowl's 50th anniversary game as a "compelling matchup."

“My perspective of Auburn college football is that their fans rank in the top five in the country in the most loyal fans in college football," Stokan said. "They would follow Auburn anywhere they play at anytime. We are really glad to have them.”