About two weeks before student football tickets went on sale this year, incoming freshmen were allowed to sign up for tickets during First-Year Testing, Counseling and Advising Program (FTCAP), Bud Meredith, manager of ticket operations, said.

Ticket sale tables were set up at FTCAP on May 20 to get a jump start on filling seats because last year tickets did not sell out until the last week in August, Greg Myford, Penn State's associate athletic director for marketing and communications, said.

Although only 200 tickets were sold at FTCAP, the athletic department will not sell tickets at FTCAP again next year so freshmen do not have an advantage.

"In hindsight it wasn't something we'd choose to do again, and given the demand, we didn't need to," Myford said.

Jen Skrzypek (freshman-division of undergraduate studies) said she doesn't remember being offered the opportunity to sign up for tickets during FTCAP.

Instead, Skrzypek said she ordered tickets after received a letter in the mail.

She added that she thinks its good freshmen were given a chance to order tickets to introduce them to the college experience.

"But I can see where there's disagreement with seniority," Skrzypek said.

Some upperclassmen were upset to find out that freshmen were given first dibs at FTCAP.

Tony Grazel (senior-world language education and applied Spanish) was not happy that freshmen were able to sign up for tickets early.

"That makes me really angry," Grazel said.

"Especially because there's a lot of freshmen who are putting their tickets up on eBay."

Gary Paradee (senior-materials science and engineering) said he thinks he should have been given seniority because it's his last year at Penn State.

"I feel kind of cheated that I couldn't get tickets," Paradee said.

Doug Dyer (senior-business management) also said there should have been a priority to upperclassmen.

"It's a big part of Penn State going to football games," Dyer said. "It would be kinda nice -- our last year to see the games."

Collegian Staff Writer Meaghan Haugh contributed to this article.