can anyone sit in the student section?

validated

You can sit in the student section, but in order to get through the gate you either need a student ID or you have to have your ticket validated, which requires a student to pay to have a sticker put on it for general use. You also must enter the stadium in the section printed on your ticket, but as long as you can usher dodge (pretty easy), you're free to move around from there. Just make sure if you go too far out of your section that you won't be needing to get up for any reason until the game is over.

No, you have to stand the whole time.

Big House ushers are surprisingly very, very, VERY thorough about checking that you are going into the section your ticket is for. If you are with a friend and they have a student section ticket, have them go in and borrow a ticket from someone else in that section, then come back out and give you the extra, then you can both go in. They won't care if you look like a student or not.

you need to show a ticket for the correct aisle to enter your section. The validation issue gets you into the stadium grounds, and then you have to have the same section number to sit together.

I've only had this problem at the Big House, my dad has used student hockey tix at Yost with no problems

First, you have to stand, but that is worth it.

Second, you do not need an ID but if you don't have one, the ticket must be validated, and i believe the validation must be done by a student. Validation prices generally range from $25-40 depending on how big the game is.

Finally, the ushers in the student section are as big of dicks as advertized. It doesn't matter if they recognize you, if your ticket doesn't correspond to the section, they are not letting you in. This is made even more stupid by the fact that above maybe the first 5-10 rows (which are way overrated due to your lack of a sight line to the other endzone so much so that I don't want to be below about row 25), nobody sits in there exact seat all the time and kids are always going around to see their friends. It just means that there is much ticket exchange. I have always foud the fact that we have an individual seat instead of just an area to be really stupid.

Still, as a college aged kid there is no where I would rather sit and I would suggest to anyone who hasn't to try it.

If you’re caught selling your student ticket to a local tattoo parlor, do you get a 5-game suspension?

I disagree with anyone saying the Big House ushers are very strict on making sure your ticket matches what section you're sitting in. I had tickets in row 80 this year and some friends of mine had tickets in row 14 in a different section (completely accross the stadium from my section) and I sat with them (if they didn't use all their tickets) or just sat there if they weren't using their tickets. I never once got asked to see my ticket. If you look like you know where you're going or act like you've been there before I have NEVER been asked. I even had a blue hair get an usher to get me to "sit down" and he just asked me nicely and went on his way.

It should be first-come first-served.  If freshmen care enough to get to the game early and snag good seats, so be it.

My sister was turned off by the Big House all three times she came up for games (not to mention that all three were losses, two of which being the App. St. and Oregon games).  The first time, we weren't allowed to sit in our "reserved" seats because we got there late and the girls in my legitimate spot were  bitches and wouldn't move.  The second time, my friends in my seating group were assholes and invited too many buddies into our area, so we had to sit separately.  The third time, my sister actually got ticketed by an usher and had to sit in a different section than me :-( 

I was using student tickets for a few years after graduation and never got the stickers. Our strategy was to target the really old guys that are checking tickets at the main gate.  Never had a problem.  That of course is still my strategy to smuggle in my cocktails.