The cost of moving to the SEC is about to hit Texas A&M fans in the pocketbook.
A&M announced an increase in season ticket prices for football this week, while offering one fewer home game than in 2011.
Texas A&M, which sold out every home game for the first time last season, begins play in the Southeastern Conference this season.
Non-student tickets will cost $50 more for the season, which means $450 for bench seating, $485 for armchair seating, and $520 for club and suite tickets.
Student tickets will increase $25 per seat to $225 for football-only tickets and $350 for an all-sports option.
The average price of a season ticket at Kyle Field will be $360.
Not only will there just be six home games instead of the seven in 2011, but ticket discounts that brought the price down to as low as $175 have been eliminated. The change was to accommodate SEC rules for visiting-team allotments and student seating.
"As we head into the SEC, we are faced with new challenges on the playing field as well as off the field," A&M athletic director Bill Byrne said in a statement. "The increase in ticket prices for Aggie football reflects these challenges."
A&M has the largest student section in the nation with 30,000 student tickets sold last season. Byrne said there would be no reduction in the number of tickets made available to students, although some student seats will have to be moved from behind the visitors bench because of SEC rules.
Earlier this week, the Big 12 announced that A&M would pay $12.41 million dollars in exit fees to the conference. A&M officials later said the real impact will be only $9.31 million.
The exit fees, which could have reached as much as $30 million before the sides reached a settlement, will be taken from A&M's share of Big 12 revenues.
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