Want a YSU-OSU ticket? Show your student ID

There are no general public ticket sales available for the Sept. 1 game.

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YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State University students hoping to see the Youngstown State-Ohio State game in Columbus will be allowed to buy tickets one day only — Monday.

They can get tickets from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. in person at the Stambaugh Stadium Athletic Ticket Office.

The Ohio State opener is Sept. 1 at noon at Ohio Stadium. The game will be televised by the new Big 10 Network, which will not be carried by any Mahoning County cable TV company.

Trevor Parks, YSU’s sports and information director, said the university has set aside somewhere between 500 and 600 tickets for students.

Tickets cost $65, and students are required to bring their current/valid YSU student ID. Students are allowed to buy one ticket in person with their own YSU student ID.

There are no general public ticket sales available for the game.

The YSU ticket office has set a policy for the Sept. 1 game. The only way to guarantee tickets to the game is with a membership in the YSU Penguin Club at the Royal Level ($200) or above.

Fans receive the option to buy the number of YSU/OSU tickets equal to or less than the number of tickets allotted with a Penguin Club membership.

4,500 tickets for YSU

Ohio State gave YSU an allotment of 4,500 tickets, most of which will be available to Penguin Club members, assistant athletic director Tom Morella said.

Penguin Club members have the opportunity to buy tickets through the end of this week. Penguin Club membership revenue is used to cover the costs of athletic grant-in-aid provided to student-athletes.

Season-ticket holders were given a chance for tickets through a lottery system earlier in the year, according to YSU. They had to fill out and return their season-ticket renewal form along with YSU/OSU Ticket request form with credit card payment information by June 30.

After June 30, those entries were put into a lottery and season-ticket holders drawn. Each entry drawn will receive and be charged for two tickets.

Hard to come by

Pharmacist Rocky Fumi of Buckeye Pharmacy in Canfield doesn’t have any tickets available for the Buckeyes-Penguins contest.

But the longtime Ohio State fan, who has developed into sort of a friendly broker with an honest reputation for taking in and disposing of tickets for Buckeyes home games for friends and relatives, thinks that eventually some OSU-YSU tickets will become available.

And if and when they do, he in turn will sell them to the public at face value as he always has done. He said the face value this year is $60, although YSU is selling them for $65 each but only to Penguins Club members and YSU students.

“In all the years that I have been selling them, this is the toughest ticket to acquire for any game. This is just a tough game. Tickets are very scarce, and I am not getting any extra tickets yet,” Fumi said.

Fumi said that he and his family and friends usually get about 12 tickets for every OSU home game, and he sells whatever tickets that are not used, and whatever other tickets come to him for sale.

“I have been a season-ticket holder since 1950 as a student and then every year thereafter. I never missed a year,” Fumi said.

Fumi said the OSU ticket designs this year showcase the Buckeyes’ seven Heisman Award winners.

“There are seven home games, and OSU has seven Heisman award winners and two of them are Archie Griffin, and his picture is on two of [the tickets]. Les Horvath’s picture is on the OSU-YSU game ticket,” Fumi said.