<p>How do most kids get tickets to football games at their school? I know nothing about how this works :(</p>
<p>Do most students buy extra tickets (in a block) and then sell them to the friends they want to go with? Or do you buy your own and go alone? Because if my D wants to go to a game and bought her ticket herself (like from the box office), she’d be sitting with a bunch of strangers, right? She really wants to be assured of having a ticket to her school’s first big football game so she’s bugging me about getting her season tickets so she doesn’t have to worry if a game she wants to go to is sold out. (Football is VERY big at her school.) Of course I’d rather she just go only to the individual games she really wants to attend. I mean the expense is ridiculous and how could she go with a friend that way? So should she wait until she moves in to her dorm and hopes she meets nice people who will want to sit together and sell her a ticket? She’s afraid the game will be sold out by then, but I tell her someone is bound to have extra tickets.</p>
<p>I have no idea- my daughter school doesn’t have football
I know at some schools- tickets can be difficult to get- even for students- its best to check with the activities office ASAP- for how your school handles it</p>
<p>When does school start and when is the first game? Back when I went to school the first game was at least a week after school started and student season ticket sales (the only type of tickets available for students) went on sale after everyone was on campus. Hence entire dorm floors would camp out in line together to get good seats. It was part of the bonding experience. However, I’m sure that you will get as many different ways that tickets are dealt with as there are schools. At my son’s school, football is so insignificant (much to his dismay), that they don’t even bother with student tickets - you just show your ID and walk into the stadium - first come first served.</p>
<p>Times have undoubtably changed, but when I was at University of Wyoming (back in the 70’s) students just had to show an ID at the gate - no ticket purchase required. The entire east side of the bleachers were student seating, and it was packed every game! (What else was there to do in Laramie on a Saturday afternoon?) Not one of my 3 kiddos goes to a college with a football team!</p>
<p>They have student sections for both schools, and general seating sections which are usually overwhelmingly for the home team. For mid-major D-I schools (Kent State, Toledo, Ball State) sudent tickets are usually free. When you in into the high end D-I schools student tickets can cost as much as $20 a seat. Ohio State for one has a very strict policy on student tickets, if someone buys a student ticket and want to sell it to someone else, both parties have to show up with IDs and pay a $40 transfer fee. Check with your individual school to see the policy, but unless your school is a football powerhouse (OSU, Oklahoma, Michiagn, Notre Dame, UT-Austin, USC etc) student tickets are probably free. But if you want to take friends who are not students, you will have to pay, in some cases ALOT of money. Like $500 per ticket to OSU-Michigan.</p>
<p>S went to UMich. He bought football and hockey season tickets every year, including prior to getting to school for his freshman year. For the freshman year, it wasn’t a problem attending with friends. Everyone just changed sections and squished into seats within a very large student section. If you’ve ever been in the Big House, it’s hard to imagine anyone’s b**t fitting within the designated space on the bench seats. After frosh year, he bought in groups with friends, and still other friends found ways to sit with them. Since football is BIG at your D’s school, get the season tickets, as individual seats will probably not be available. My S only missed one FB game in 4 years, and was able to sell that ticket easily for a tidy profit. He had a really hard time getting a ticket for DH when he visited.</p>
<p>Berkeley lets fresh & new transfers order free tickets for certain games and discounted tickets for big games. They are in the student section whcih is probably unassigned so they can pick seats with friends. Chek your school’s sports website and see if they have any info about it. I learned about the choice on CC!! My D found the link and bought tickets, but would not have known yet, though maybe they tell them orientation week??</p>
<p>Don’t know if this is true for football (in my day at a UC, we had the student section and you just sat “wherever” in that section), but in big-time basketball schools sometimes there is more to it than buying a ticket. At niece’s ACC school, you get “points” for every “non-big-time” game you attend; only those students who have enough “points” are eligible for the “big-time” games that everyone wants (Maryland vs. Duke) etc. IE, support the team during the full regular season and you get rewarded with sought-after seats.</p>
<p>S’s school sent us paperwork to order tickets. As a student, they get in free and sit in the student section. If he wanted to sit with us, he would have to buy a ticket (only for the Lehigh/Lafayette game, though).</p>