FARGO - Green and gold will not be in short supply next September when North Dakota State travels to the University of Oregon for the football season opener. Each school sports those colors and if the number of ticket requests by NDSU fans is any indication, expect a lot of NDSU’s school-color version.

The NDSU ticket office received over 11,000 ticket requests to fill its 3,000 allotted visiting team seats. Those were awarded using the school’s standard priority points system.

NDSU has traveled well over the years to FBS games like Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas State. So 11,000 seat requests for the Sept. 5 game wasn’t a shock to Josh Hemingway, NDSU’s assistant athletic director for business and ticket operations.

“Not really based on the fact it’s kind of a big game,” he said. “Just based on the opponent being a Power Five school. I think it’s an exciting thing for people, something different and a little further away. Just with the number of alums on the West Coast, I think for a lot of them this piqued their interest.”

Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Ore., carries a capacity of 54,000.

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As for the other 8,000 requests from Bison fans who didn’t make the priority points cut? Oregon plans on putting single-game tickets on sale this summer and the Bison ticket office has been advising fans to monitor the Oregon athletic website.

There is not a standard allotted seats requirement to visiting teams for non-conference games for FBS programs. Over the years, Hemingway said that number tends to “be all over the place depending on the stadium size and ticket availability.”

For instance, NDSU fans had more access to tickets at the Bison at University of Minnesota games at the 54,000-seat Metrodome in 2006 and 2007. Thousands of fans found their way into Iowa’s 69,000-seat Kinnick Stadium in 2016.

“But this is one of our highest ones for a regular season FBS game,” Hemingway said.

It’s possible some Oregon fans may be more interested in the Ducks’ game the following weekend when they host Ohio State. It could make NDSU game tickets more available on the usual online ticket sites like StubHub or SeatGeek.

NDSU will put its FCS-record 37-game winning streak on the line against an Oregon team that has escalated its success in the last couple of years. The Ducks went 12-2 last year winning the Rose Bowl over Wisconsin.

They finished the year ranked fifth in the Associated Press top 25 poll.

“People get excited about playing FBS schools,” Hemingway said. “People kind of get into the challenge of playing FBS schools and showing our fan support and how strong that is.”