Why do we sell so many tickets to our opponents?

Double-post.

If Ohio has 15-20K in the stands, it's not our athletic department's doing.  It's due to some of our season-ticketholders selling off their tickets to Ohio fans.  The actual visitor's allotment is much smaller than that, just a few thousand.

Regarding MSU, what you write is not very accurate - we always have a lot of fans in Spartan Stadium, certainly no fewer than they get in Michigan Stadium.  My friend was at the 2009 game there, when we were 4-0 and MSU 1-3, and we had a huge contingent of fans that day - a ton of MSU fans had sold off their tickets to us that year.

Not many Michigan fans make it to Ohio Stadium, but it's not a ticket distribution issue.  It's more of a "Their fans are violent drunken thugs" issue.

I can assure you your number is incorrect.  My understanding is that the number is 5000 between schools.  I know for a fact that Wisconsin only give us 3000 so we only give them that back. 

I have had disucssions about this with the AD and that is what they told me.

shouldn't be missed you'll still have 109,899 left

Man, after getting here late I nominate this for most confusing thread of the year.

Yee! Here therr be trollin' on the seas! Arr!

We have a fair number of seriously old alums in my section who seem to show up for most of the early season games, but come November, their tickets are occupied by others, sometimes Michigan fans, sometimes not.  I have often wondered if they just don't like the cold weather.  For what it is worth, you often see a large number of MSU fans in attendance when they play in Ann Arbor..

If you read our ticket policy on away tickets (which I believe comes with the season tickets, but MGoBlue would have this up as well somewhere), you would get the sense that there is no way the allotments would be more than a few thousands seats pretty much anywhere you go. At my giving level, I am "offered" two tickets to ND, Nebraska and Ohio (I don't have any paperwork on it at my desk right now, so I will check it later), and no guarantee that said offer will be fulfilled in the end. It's likely very similar at other schools, I imagine. Actually, I think Ohio's ticket policy - based on a conversation with a colleague who is an alum of that school - is that students are offered one ticket as part of their package and that they basically tell alums and faculty to contact the host school.

To the OP - sorry to hijack your post, but at this point why not.

Here's a link to the 2012 football ticket pack and individual ticket info.

http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/071012aaa.html

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Others: if deemed worthy please start a new post with this nugget of information as I do not have enough points to do so.

Again, sorry to hijack but anything football related helps us all through this dry period.

It's summer and things are sloooooooow, so FWIW here's a link to CFNs 2012 preseason bowl picks.

http://cfn.scout.com/2/1169806.html

It's done in 3 parts and spoiler alert...Michigan is tabbed for the Capital One Bowl.

Happy reading.

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i see a lot of posts about tickets here and elsewhere on the site. I only bought the student package the first year. Every other year we just bought them at the game (including when we were in HS) in the street or from another student that couldn't go. For ND and Ohio I had to buy a few more to resell to cover my cost. We did the same thing at away games.