Student tickets for LSU’s season opener Sept. 4 at the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game against North Carolina in Atlanta are still available with the game just four days away.
Tim Messa, assistant director of ticket operations, said a little more than 2,000 tickets for the game have been sold to LSU students as of Monday afternoon.
“We will continue to take orders from students until mid-week,” Messa said. “We do not expect to run out of student tickets prior to that time. If students still want to buy, we’d love to sell to them.”
Tickets are on sale for $30 to students, discounted from the price of $60 to $85 to the general public.
The North Carolina game is not sold out to students yet,
unlike the Auburn, Florida and Arkansas games, Messa said.
“We’ve sold way more tickets for this game to students than we normally would for an away game,” Messa said.
“The 2,000 student tickets we’ve sold right now for UNC are more than we normally have available for other games, where we cut it off at about 500, though that number does fluctuate.”
Messa said students need 105 priority points to acquire lower-bowl tickets to the North Carolina game, a number that is not arbitrarily decided.
“It’s based on supply and demand,” he said.
A yearly event that did not have trouble selling tickets for the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game is the LSU Student Government Bus Trip.
SG Director of Athletics Brandon Briggs said the 250 spots were filled up in fewer than eight hours.
Briggs said the SG-sponsored bus trip to Atlanta filled up even more quickly than last year’s trek to Mississippi State.
“We picked Atlanta because of a lower student population there, so [the bus trip] can help the ticket office out,” Briggs said. “And it will be exciting being the first game of the season.”
LSU alumni are not losing their enthusiasm for traveling to away games, as Vice President of Alumni Relations Jason Ramezan said.
The Traveling Tigers’ charter trip to Atlanta sold out in July after sales dropped earlier in the summer. Ramezan said 200 people are attending.
“This is one of the tougher years to sell, often because of the economy,” Ramezan said. “Once people really get excited for football, it changes. Atlanta is not an easy area for students to get to. With it being the first game, it’s sometimes hard to get out of class and head out of town.”
Messa agreed that Labor Day weekend may present conflicts for students to make the trip to Atlanta, but he said it is important for students to know tickets are ready and waiting to be sold.
“If students still want to go, they still can,” Messa said. “I don’t know if we’ll sell every last seat, but we’ll be close.”
 
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