Joe Lister contributed to this report.

Penn State football tickets for its first-ever College Football Playoff game went on sale to the general public at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, December 9, through Ticketmaster. Penn State Athletics, like many programs around the country, was tasked with coming up with a system to request and purchase tickets for a home playoff game.

During the general public sale, several sections normally reserved for students during the regular season had seats available. Ticketmaster showed five sections, including two in the south end zone, for sale that are usually reserved for student seating.

Penn State Athletics, in a comment sent to Onward State, said all students who requested tickets by the assigned November 29 received them.

“The ticket inventory and pricing are controlled by the CFP (College Football Playoff),” wrote Penn State Athletics spokesperson Kris Petersen in an email. “All students who requested tickets by the Friday, November 29 deadline received tickets, and no student requests were turned away prior to the November 29 deadline.”

Several Penn State students, including Dylan Dawson, a Penn State content creator known online as PSUDylan, said they requested student tickets but were denied in the lottery process. Dawson said he and six to eight friends requested tickets but were denied.

Dawson provided Onward State with a screenshot of an email sent to him by Penn State Athletics on November 24 confirming his ticket request.

On November 13, The Athletic reported the normal allotment of 21,000 student tickets would be available.

Students requested tickets in late November and were notified during the first week of December if chosen. Student tickets were sold for $28, nearly a quarter less than the minimum general admission price of $100, and weren’t transferable.