Led by a season-renewal rate that topped 95 percent in addition to 9,000-plus new sales, Penn State football has exhausted its season ticket allotment for the first time since 2008.

Packages sold early and often following the Lions' Big Ten title run and trip to the Rose Bowl, and program optimism is arguably at an all-time high entering the 2017 season. The Lions will play seven home games, and are among the top-10 nationally in most every preseason poll.

Sales were undoubtedly boosted by the fact that the program made no single game tickets available for the September clash with Pittsburgh or the October matchup with Michigan, opting instead to make fans buy season tickets to ensure tickets to those games after single game tickets went quickly during a Nittany Lion Club pre-sale.

Regardless of that, though, sales have been strong from the first time athletic director Sandy Barbour announced that things were going well earlier this year until now, and that will ensure a full Beaver Stadium throughout the fall.

It will also aid the program in the financial department, as Barbour explained back in the spring during a Coaches Caravan stop in Pittsburgh.

"If you look at our revenue model, season ticket sales - which guarantees us there's no ebb and flow from game to game - that money comes in, those resources come in at the beginning of the season," she said, according to Blue-White Illustrated.

"That provides some consistency and stability to our financial model and how we are able to afford to create those conditions for success for our student-athletes. Other than say Big Ten revenue, it's our single largest source of revenue."

Some single game tickets are still available through the school, including for the games against Akron, Georgia State, Indiana, Rutgers, and Nebraska at the 107,000-seat venue throughout the fall.