re: How much did y’all as students pay for student tickets for a big game?

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I'd rather know I have a ticket to the game

I do not recall any student being turned away. No reserve seating. Student section was from about 30 yard line to the middle of the north end zone. The Band had from the 30 to the 50 yard line.

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This was changed after the Washington game in 1983. Tiger Stadium officially held about 78,000; for that game attendance was 82,390. Overage was all from the student section getting in with just their ID's. We were sitting in aisles, on steps, on the retaining wall between sections; anywhere we could. THAT was what made the change to having to get actual paper tickets in advance; they were able to limit the number distributed.

But while I was there (1983-1986) they were still FREE, as were the "date tickets" which was just your regular student tickets with a little paper ticket stapled to it. My then-girlfriend (now wife) who was in high school and then college in New Orleans, used to come to just about every game with me for free.

Later, after I graduated LSU and she was at LSU Med School in New Orleans in the early '90s, she would get a few date tickets and student tickets via the med school-- also for FREE. They had the same ticket deal, but med school students rarely went to games. She'd also borrow a couple of male med students ID's for the weekend. While she was studying, my buddies and I would go to games on those tickets and ID's and have a blast.