SEC Championship tickets will become available to students Saturday pending a win in the LSU-Arkansas game Friday.
The SEC Championship game is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 6, at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
LSU is allotted 1,500 tickets for students, which are only available to full-time students enrolled at LSU-Baton Rouge and cost $25 each.
Zack Lassiter, assistant ticket manager for the LSU ticket office, said the East and West champions are allotted the same amount of tickets, and 1,500 is only a rough estimate of how many tickets the office will have available.
Lassiter said the department would know exactly how many student tickets are available on Saturday.
Students will be allowed to scan their IDs and enter a lottery for one of the 1,500 tickets starting Saturday, Nov. 29, from noon to 5 p.m., on Sunday, Nov. 30, from noon to 5 p.m. and Monday, Dec. 1 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The e-mail said there is no need to camp out or arrive early in the LSU ticket office, because a lottery of all IDs scanned will select the 1,500 lucky fans.
Katie Rassinier, an anthrolpogy and sociology sophomore, said she would like to go to the game but doesn’t think she’ll be selected in the lottery.
“The price is really good but 1,500 tickets is not nearly enough,” Rassinier said. “That’s like a miniscule percent of our 32,000 person school.”
The Georgia Dome holds 71,500 fans, a number that dwarfs the 1,500 tickets allotted to LSU.
Some students were angered by the low amount of tickets allowed but admitted it seemed the fairest way.
“If both student bodies are allowed the same amount then it’s fair,” said David Desonier, a political science sophomore. “I think we [the students] should get more.”
Desonier said he thought the lottery is a fair way to distribute out the tickets.
“It’s as fair as it can be – you have so many students who want tickets, and a lottery is the fairest way to give them out,” Desonier said. “I do think that if you get a ticket though, you should have to go and you can’t re-sell it.”
Josh Barnett, an undecided freshman, said he thinks the 1,500 ticket allotment is fair because season ticket holders should get preference to students.
Barnett said his father has season tickets and received a request form for SEC Championship and Bowl Game tickets earlier in the year.
“You can request a certain amount of tickets for each game,” Barnett said. “Preference is given to people who have donated more money to TAF and have had their season tickets the longest.”