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USF Students Still Can Score Bulls Tickets

Chris Urso / Tampa Tribune

The last remaining student tickets were up for grabs this morning with just under 1,000 upper bowl tickets available.

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By KEITH MORELLI | The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 11, 2007

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TAMPA - About 1,000 free student tickets remain for Saturday's University of South Florida football game against cross-state rival University of Central Florida.

Box office officials expect all the tickets to be doled out before the noon kickoff at Raymond James Stadium.

The box office at the Sun Dome on the USF campus is open from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m., and students with valid identification cards can stop by to pick up their wristbands and free tickets. The 1,000 tickets are ones that weren't handed out Sunday during the initial offering on the Tampa campus and ones that weren't distributed at USF's three branch campuses during the week.

Only seats in the upper level remain, said Erik Book, USF director of ticket operations. There were no long lines outside his window, he said. But he was confident the tickets would be gone within a day or two.

"People will be trickling in all day," he said.

The USF Bulls, ranked fifth in the nation, take on the unranked Golden Knights of UCF and are hoping to continue an undefeated season. In about a month's time, the team went from obscurity to cracking the nation's top 10 with wins over Auburn and West Virginia universities, both of which were high-ranked teams.

The West Virginia game two weeks ago was a sellout at Raymond James Stadium, the first since the inaugural game 10 years ago. If the game Saturday sells out, it will be another first for the Bulls: consecutive sellouts.

Book said there were 12,501 student tickets available for each home game, 8,500 of which are in the lower level surrounding the north end zone. The rest are in the upper level.

Reporter Keith Morelli can be reached at (813) 259-7760 or at kmorelli@tampatrib.com.

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