Sixth consecutive year: LSU has sold out of season football tickets for the sixth consecutive year. The university sold 68,650 season tickets for the 2009 home slate, which ties a record set last year. LSU has been selling out season tickets since 2004, the season after the Tigers won their first BCS Championship. LSU has seven home games this season; the first is Sept. 12 against Vanderbilt.
Tigers and Aggies take rivalry to the Web: LSU and Texas A&M are competing to see which will be the first university to have 100,000 fans on the popular social networking site Facebook. BlueFuego, a higher education marketing group, says it will donate one penny for every Facebook fan to the school that reaches the 100,000 benchmark first. LSU has seen its Facebook fanbase explode since the Tigers won the College World Series. After the series, LSU became the first university with 50,000 Facebook fans. To become a fan of LSU, click here.
