Less Than 2,200 Football Season Tickets Remain
STARKVILLE, Miss. – Mississippi State shattered a school record for football season ticket sales in May and the number continues to rise as over 48,000 have been purchased for the 2015 campaign in Davis Wade Stadium.
Less than 2,200 season tickets remain and fans can still purchase them at HailState.com/tickets or by calling 1-888-GO-DAWGS. Priority reserved season tickets are available for $340, while non-priority season tickets are only $220. Plus, Mississippi State alumni who graduated after May 2014 can purchase first-time season tickets for just $180.
“The excitement is building as we draw closer to another Bulldog football season,” said Director of Athletics Scott Stricklin. “Mississippi State fans have purchased season tickets in record numbers and their support has been unwavering.”
The Bulldogs enter 2015 coming off the first 10-win regular season in school history and the program’s first No. 1 national ranking. MSU capped the year No. 11 in the Associated Press poll – its highest finish since 1940 – and reached the Orange Bowl for the first time since 1941. It took the Bulldogs just five weeks to move from an unranked team to the No. 1 spot in the rankings -- the quickest rise in the 78-year history of the AP poll.
Head coach Dan Mullen, the 2014 Maxwell Football National Coach of the Year, begins his seventh season and welcomes the return of a squad that shattered 30 school records last fall. Senior quarterback Dak Prescott is a Heisman Trophy hopeful after finishing eighth in the voting last December, while also being a finalist for the Maxwell Award presented to the National Player of the Year.
Davis Wade Stadium, which expanded to a capacity of 61,337 following a $75 million expansion in 2014, has been transformed into one of college football’s grandest venues. National writers and television media have proclaimed the stadium one of the loudest in the sport following a remarkable 2014 campaign that saw MSU become the first team since 1983 to defeat three consecutive top-10 ranked opponents.
The Bulldogs take an eight-game home winning streak – the longest since 1998-2000 – into the home opener on Sept. 12 against LSU. Kickoff is scheduled for 8:15 p.m. on ESPN.
Follow the Maroon and White on social media via Twitter at @HailStateFB, like the team on Facebook at Facebook.com/HailStateFB and join the squad on Instagram at Instagram.com/HailStateFB.