Clemson Football: Could the Tigers follow Michigan’s season ticket policy?

Decision time is inching closer for Clemson football and its ticket policy

Clemson football fans, along with the rest of the country, are anxiously waiting with anticipation to hear the fate of the 2020 season.

Some believe we’ll see Clemson football take the field on time and that a limited number of fans will be in the stands. Others think the season will be moved to later in the fall while others believe the spring is the only reasonable option. Some think the season will be canceled altogether before it’s all said and done.

No matter where you fall on the spectrum, we can all agree upon this premise: The 2020 Clemson football team is still moving forward as if there’s going to be a season.

In addition to the Tigers moving forward with their preparation, Clemson Athletics and IPTAY are currently in the process of crafting plans- and have been for a while. They’re running out of time, though, and it’s expected that we will begin to hear plans and procedures being announced sooner rather than later.

The University of Michigan was the first prominent Power 5 program to announce its ticket policy for the 2020 season, assuming we’re able to play and that fans will be allowed in the stands.

According to the announcement:

• There will be no football season tickets. Status as a season ticket holder remains unchanged and ticket locations will be retained for the 2021 season.
• All home games will be sold on an individual game basis with sales limited to current season ticket holders and students. There will be no tickets for sale to the general public.
• All forms of ticketing will be through a mobile platform

Could Clemson football adopt Michigan’s season ticket plan for 2020 season?

Many are obviously wondering what Clemson football will do this season and how the Tigers will go about giving out tickets if they are allowed to have fans in Death Valley.

Though it will be a much smaller capacity- potentially somewhere in the realm of 15 percent to 50 percent, at most- there will still be a great demand.

If Clemson adopted a plan similar to this, only season ticket holders and students could buy tickets and they would be sold on a individual game basis. That means you would have to be one of the first ‘in-line’ (though it will be done virtually) each week that there’s a home game to see if you can score some tickets.

Though this plan isn’t ideal, it does at least give a little insight as to the process that colleges are currently going through in trying to make the best out of a bad situation.