OMAHA ? With less than two weeks to the Cotton Bowl, Nebraska and Auburn officials say a good number of tickets remain. Groups putting together travel packages to Dallas have space available, as well.

“It’s a tough game to sell,” said Steve Glenn, president of Executive Travel in Lincoln. “Dallas just doesn’t have the star attraction that a Phoenix or San Diego does.”

Cotton Bowl President Rick Baker said he was confident the Jan. 1 game would sell out for the sixth straight year. The Cotton Bowl ticket office has fewer than 500 end-zone seats remaining, and Baker said his staff is directing fans to buy tickets from the schools.

Nebraska, which had sold 9,000 of its 12,500-ticket allotment as of two weeks ago, still had tickets Tuesday, sports information director Keith Mann said.

Auburn ticket manager Stephen Naughton said that after a slow start, sales picked up last week and now total about 10,000. Naughton said many tickets were being sent to Texas addresses where, he suspects, Big Red fans reside.

“We want the Auburn folks there,” Naughton said. “But if Nebraska folks are buying from us, that’s part of it, too. Maybe we can convert them.”

Glenn said he knew right away that Nebraskans generally weren’t thrilled about the Cotton. He offered a package where fans could put down a deposit to reserve space on a bowl tour, regardless of the destination.

“When we found out we were going to the Cotton Bowl,” Glenn said, “eight out of 10 people canceled.”

Glenn said he still had several dozen seats left on a charter that holds 137.