FOOTBALL TICKET LOTTERY RESULTS
Notification regarding the Ohio State Alumni Association ticket lottery was sent by the Athletics Ticket Offfice in June, and a second notice was sent by the Alumni Association July 23.
Tickets will be mailed approximately two weeks prior to the game. Tickets for the Youngstown State game were mailed to out-of-state members Aug. 19 and members in Ohio Aug. 20.
According to the Athletics Ticket Office, which administrates the distribution of all Buckeye football tickets, 44,112 Association members applied for the lottery. Of those, 39,563 (90%) received tickets to a game during the 2008 football season.
The Athletics Ticket Office was also able to increase the Association's ticket allotment prior to conducting the lottery. The Association was initially allotted 71,000 tickets for the season, 62,000 of which were included in the ticket lottery. The 62,000 total grew to 79,126.
Eighty-four percent of the tickets in the Alumni Association's allotment were for the Youngstown State, Ohio University, and Troy football games. The remaining 16 percent were divided among the four conference home games.
Total tickets distributed to Association members for each game were: Youngstown State, 25,238; Ohio, 21,280; Troy, 19,990; Minnesota, 4,122; Purdue, 3,244; Penn State, 2,450; and Michigan, 2,802.
The Alumni Association mailed 91,857 total football applications to members. Forty-eight percent of those members applied for the ticket lottery.
