Editor’s Note: Onward State runs its own student ticket exchange. The following post is not intended to be an endorsement of either Penn State Athetics’ resale market nor our own exchange.

Penn State Athletics announced an official Student Ticket Resale Marketplace for the 2024 football season on September 4, just before Penn State football took on Bowling Green in the team’s home opener. Through student emails, those looking for tickets received directions on how to buy/sell tickets.

Let’s dive into how the ticket resale works and review the process.

First, the link in the email takes you to a login page. The login page took multiple times to reload and even crashed a couple of times. It was difficult and even said that there was no student account found, which was extremely frustrating. I had to refresh the page to finally get into the Ticketmaster portal.

Once in, a dashboard of games was on the page, giving you options to select which game you’re looking for. I decided to check for Kent State to see the range of ticket prices. The tickets were split up into sections in the student section.

However, I was shocked to see that some tickets were going for $5,000. There were more options that made more sense for the game, though. Section GA7 was the cheapest option, ranging between $60-$95. Weirdly enough, section GA8 was the section with the $5000 ticket. The average cost for a ticket on the website was probably around $100.

For checking out, the process was typical for Ticketmaster but was still hard. It was super stressful and gave me flashbacks from checking out the old ticket system for football tickets.

For fun, I wanted to check out the White Out game against Washington. The ticket prices were atrocious. These tickets started at $444 and went to $3500.

To see both sides of the site, I tried to sell a ticket to see how the process works. The process just wasn’t user-friendly. There were no instructions and it was unclear how to sell. Honestly, the steps were really what annoyed me. I didn’t even get as far as actually selling a ticket because I was so irritated.

All in all, the website needs to be fixed for next season. I also think that Penn State Athletics should put a cap on the amount that students can sell tickets for.

Folks wanting to try out the website for themselves can click here.