This new program, which allows non-MSU students to purchase paper tickets allowing them admission to the student section through the popular ticketing site StubHub provides new opportunities for students who want to attend games with their friends from other universities.

“It’s nice because I have a lot of friends who don’t go to MSU but want to come to football games,” advertising junior Mary Husser said. 

“Even though they could still buy tickets before, being able to sit in the student section and experience the game in that way is a totally different experience.”

Husser said that she plans to attend the Central Michigan game on Sept. 26 with a friend who is a CMU student. 

Making tickets available to non-MSU students is also useful to students with younger siblings who want to experience the energy and atmosphere of the student section.

“My younger brother is a big college football fan and trying to get him into the games last year was a struggle," media and information junior Sarah Maskill said. 

“My parents were constantly trying to get me to find tickets to the games for him, but since he is only 16 they wanted me to be with him at the games.”

Maskill, who is a season ticket holder, has also utilized the service to sell her tickets to a non-student.

“The process for selling a ticket to a non-student is unnecessarily difficult,” she said. 

“Just the process of creating an account and finding the right website to log into took me a half hour.”

Once she made it past the initial account creating, Maskill said that StubHub was easy to use and she would use it again in the future.

One issue selling tickets on StubHub presents is a $4.50 service fee to the party selling the ticket. Because of this, Maskill noted students can make more money by simply transferring their ticket to another student, “however it is nice to give a non-student the opportunity to sit in the student section,” Maskill said.