By Mary Mogan Edwards, The Columbus Dispatch
COLUMBUS – Ohio State football and basketball fans will pay more for some tickets next fall and winter if the university’s Board of Trustees approves a proposed pricing plan Friday.
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The most-expensive tickets would be $190 for the football games against Michigan State and Oklahoma and, for basketball, $57 for a club-level seat against a “premier” opponent.
But for basketball games, two newly designated tiers of seating in the Schottenstein Center would offer cheaper seats.
The university is fine-tuning the practice of charging more for high-profile games and, in basketball, better seats.
In both sports, the proposal would leave the price for student tickets unchanged: $34 for every football game regardless of opponent, and $238 for a student season ticket; in basketball, $10, $12 or $13 per game depending on opponent. Officials say the plan is to keep the $34 student rate for football the same at least through the 2020 season.
Instead of one premium football game (this year it’s the University of Michigan at $195), the 2017 football season would have two top-price games: Oklahoma and Michigan State, at $190 each. Mid- and lower-tier tickets would be $5 or $10 more than comparable games in the current season. Penn State would be $140; Maryland and Illinois, $80; Army, $70; and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, $65.
To buy each home game ticket individually in the current football season would cost a total of $720. In 2017, if the plan is approved, that total would be $815, about a 13 percent increase.
Season tickets for football would be $695, up from $614. For club-level or box seats, single-game prices would range from $90 to $215, with season tickets at $845.