Despite whispers throughout campus, there have been no major changes to football game admissions for the fast approaching season.
The only officially announced change allows students to electronically transfer their game tickets to another student's Auburn Ignited Card from midnight Sundays until noon Fridays.
"Now, you can have a ticket on a card that doesn't already have a ticket to the game," said an Auburn Athletic Ticket Office representative.
Before this year, students exchanged money for an Ignited Card with tickets to particular games.
The policy change came as part of an effort to limit the number of invalid Ignited Cards sold, while also trying to decrease the number of cards stolen as a result of the exchanges. However, many people in the market for Auburn football tickets are not University students.
Harris Green, sophomore in microbiology, had full-season tickets his first two years at Auburn, but last year he purchased an extra ticket to the to the Arkansas game. "I invited a bunch of friends up," Green said. "I used the unofficial ticket exchange Facebook group, and found one for about $20 under face value."
The new exchange option does not seem to change anything about this process.
The official Auburn Athletics Twitter account tweeted Aug. 26, "entrance procedures for the Auburn Student Section at football games have not changed."
The ticket office confirmed the tweet.
"As far as the Athletic Department is concerned, that's the only thing that's really changed from last year," the representative said. "Official policy has always been that tickets are for student's personal use to enjoy."
He also said Auburn Athletics does not police Jordan-Hare Stadium's gates.
Event Operations Group Inc., the organization that swipes Ignited Cards for entry into games, could not be reached for comments on how the policy will be enforced.
"They can't check every ID though," the representative said. "It'd take them three years to get everyone through the gates."
The option to transfer tickets can be found under the Student Ticket Order Menu of the Tiger I tab on AU Access.
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