Between the team’s hot start and the university hosting its annual Family Weekend, there’s enough demand that there’s even a resale market for tickets.

“It’s a lot of energy, a lot of juice right now on campus, which is, I think, certainly been earned by our guys to go out and start out 4-0,” athletic director Ryan Bamford said. “It’s been a fun first month of the year.”

The Minutemen have a chance to start 5-0 for the first time in half a century if they can beat Eastern Michigan (3:30 p.m., ESPN+). Five wins also would be a program record since the jump to FBS.

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“I’m hearing that it should be a pretty packed house, which is pretty special,” coach Joe Harasymiak told reporters Monday. “So now we’ve got to go focus and do our part.”

There’s been nothing fluky about this hot start for UMass, which followed up its Opening Night stunner at Rutgers with dominant wins over Sacred Heart, Stonehill, and Mid-American Conference opponent Sacramento State.

That’s perhaps been the most startling piece of the turnaround — the Minutemen have looked very solid, very cohesive, very fast.

“I think Joe’s done a really good job with his staff of just drilling down, focusing in, kind of digging the program out,” Bamford said. “You could see it start to come together even after [going] 0-12. I think there was a pretty intentional resolve to get this thing flipped and to get off to a good start.”

The large crowd won’t be a complete shock to the school operationally. More than 15,000 were in attendance for last year’s Family Weekend matchup against Buffalo, and a similar number were in attendance for this season’s home opener against Sacred Heart.

But after years of struggling to successfully lure students from the long-popular tailgates into the stadium for kickoff — instead of back up the hill toward the dorms and dining halls — UMass is contending with an unfamiliar issue: meeting student ticket demand.

“We hold a lot of student tickets, over 4,000, and we’ve been getting great student crowds. I think we had 5,400 for the first game against Sacred Heart,” Bamford said. “We’ve got to make sure that we’re filling those student sections, but I’m a little worried that we’re going to get more than [the] 4,000-plus that we have held.

“So we’ve got some plans to do some things with standing room for students to give them some other places to congregate, to make sure that we’re doing our best, ideally, not to turn any students away.”

For Bamford, whose 11-year tenure has been largely viewed through the lens of the consistent failures of the football team, it’s a big weekend in Amherst.

“It’s been a tough road,” he said. “It’s a privilege to be in games like this where you get to October and games matter. … It’s an awesome thing. It’s great for our program. It’s great for our department, and I’m just happy that we’re here to support this program, this team, and make sure that they have the things that they need to ultimately continue this success on, not just this year but sustain it for future years, as well.

“That’s an exciting prospect for us and I’m excited for the opportunities that lie ahead.”

Amin Touri can be reached at amin.touri@globe.com.