Kansas football announced Thursday that its game against Duke on Saturday “is a sellout,” according to Adam Hensley of the TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL. Kansas and Duke both enter this Week 4 matchup with "unblemished records." The Jayhawks are 3-0 for the first time since 2009. Kansas football has not sold out a game since 2019, when the Jayhawks “clashed” with in-state rival Kansas State. In total, Saturday marks “just the second sellout in nearly 13 years.” David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium seats 47,233 fans (TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL, 9/23).
LEVELING UP: In Lawrence, Matt Tiat reports KU has “invested some time, effort and money into giving a few of the concepts for the future of the stadium a trial run in the newly revamped Touchdown Club in the south end zone.” What used to be a luxury seating area with limited space and oversized recliners now features “five different options for fans to tap into a variety of experiences.” The Touchdown Club, which is larger, “features tiered seating and is a complete overhaul of what was there before, includes five options available at different price points.” The Wave the Wheat patio “appeals to a younger crowd” and is “more of a standing-room-only experience, with easy access to food and drink.” There are seven cabanas -- all of which are sold out for 2022 -- that seat up to 20 people and “most closely resemble” what the original Touchdown Club seating used to look like. Generating revenue was a “big part of investing in redoing the area.” But KU deputy AD Jason Booker said that it was “equally as important” to increase access to the space so KU fans who were interested “could try out and get a firsthand look at the luxury seating options that might one day be available on a larger scale” at a renovated Memorial Stadium (LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD, 9/21).
