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Bucknut24 said:
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Wut? What does it say about the total ticket sales for OSU if at this point in time there are Michigan tickets available to the alum lottery? It may be that someone has decided to make Michigan tickets open to a wider group than in the past. After all some of us have gotten tickets via the lottery to the games with Texas and USC, games I'm sure were sell outs. I just don't recall Michigan games being available. Then add on to it that two people from such a small populations sample "got lucky" and it has me guessing that there are two major implications: 1) That the Michigan game is not the draw it once was due to the state of Michigan football. 2) That OSU's ticket office is finding it a bit hard to sell this slate of home games.

I'll add a third, that the Michigan game loses some of it's attraction when it is followed a week later by a CCG.
 
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cincibuck said:
Wut? What does it say about the total ticket sales for OSU if at this point in time there are Michigan tickets available to the alum lottery? It may be that someone has decided to make Michigan tickets open to a wider group than in the past. After all some of us have gotten tickets via the lottery to the games with Texas and USC, games I'm sure were sell outs. I just don't recall Michigan games being available. Then add on to it that two people from such a small populations sample "got lucky" and it has me guessing that there are two major implications: 1) That the Michigan game is not the draw it once was due to the state of Michigan football. 2) That OSU's ticket office is finding it a bit hard to sell this slate of home games.

I'll add a third, that the Michigan game loses some of it's attraction when it is followed a week later by a CCG.
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Michigan games have been available in the lottery since I was there many years ago...the pool is usually small, but they were always in it.
 
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cincibuck said:
Coulda fooled me. The best I ever got was two for Indiana. In the meantime I received UC (2), Miami (2), Ohio U (2), Kent State, Akron, BGSU (2) and YSU.
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My in-laws got scUM tickets in the lottery twice in the last decade.

FWIW about ticket sales:

http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2014/07/take_that_penn_state_-_ohio_st.html

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Penn State sold out its student ticket allotment consisting of more than 21,000 seats, so one of the most intimidating student sections in college football will again thrive in James Franklin's first year as coach.

But Ohio State isn't blown away, and it certainly doesn't agree that those numbers are "unrivaled," the term used in Penn State's press release announcing the sales last Thursday.

Ohio State, in fact, sold more. A release from Ohio State on Tuesday afternoon indicated there were nearly 30,000 student tickets sold for the 2014 season.
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The student total represents a 13 percent increase from last season and a 15 percent increase from 2012. This year's total is also 1,281 package more than the student allotment of 28,333 packages.
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UpNorth_Buckeye said:
Do many people here enter the lottery if you're not within a reasonable drive? I've considered it but I really don't want to "make a weekend" out of Kent State. I'd rather fork up an extra $50 and go to basically any game but UM.
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I gave up on the lottery when I dropped $65 for a seat in the far reaches of the south stands to watch the bucks play OU. On the very same day my nephew paid $10 to see the same game from a seat in 15 A.

I have since followed his lead and pay the scalper's price - usually well below the face value - including two free seats in 16 A to watch Indiana.

I paid $140 to watch the bucks play Dick Wad's boys. That was the year the bucks put 40+ on the board while the weasels narrowly avoided getting blanked. It was cold as hell. I was sitting next to the Bock O kids in miserable seats and loved every minute of it.
 
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cincibuck said:
Coulda fooled me. The best I ever got was two for Indiana. In the meantime I received UC (2), Miami (2), Ohio U (2), Kent State, Akron, BGSU (2) and YSU.
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They've always been part of the lottery, though the allotment was generally small (some years it was like 1500 total tickets). It's one of the carrots they dangled to get people to buy into the lottery every year. I wonder if now since they have jacked the pricing on bigger games, if the pool of alumni tickets for the better games will be/is higher. Face value can only be so high for the "lesser" seats and there are only so many rich alumni who can donate and get tickets the rich people way.
 
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