OU-Texas student tickets sold out in 30 minutes despite being in additional supply this year, compared to last year when tickets lasted only about three hours, said Kenneth Mossman, senior associate athletic director for communications.

“OU-Texas is an attractive game,” Mossman said. “You have the Heisman winner and the runner-up playing each other, so it’s expected to be a good game.”

The OU ticket office sold 4,200 tickets to students this year, 200 more than sold in 2008, Mossman said.

“We were excited about the demand for tickets,” Mossman said.

This year, one student had the right name, but the wrong place in line for tickets.

“If anyone deserves OU-Texas tickets, it should be someone with the name ‘Boomer,’” said Boomer Butler, health and exercise science sophomore.

Butler said he woke up at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday to get OU-Texas tickets, but was unable to get through the online notification page, which was alerting its users that the server was busy.

“I was thoroughly angry,” Butler said.

Butler said he and his friends intend to go to the Texas State Fair and may stay near the stadium to watch the game with other students who couldn’t get tickets.

“I like to talk smack,” Butler said. “I’m that guy, unfortunately.”

Weihao Zhang, a social work graduate student originally from China, said this is the first year in his three years at OU to attend the OU-Texas game.

“It’s pretty hard to get tickets, so I just gave up every time,” Zhang said. “And it’s pretty expensive when you don’t have season tickets.”

Zhang said he woke up at 7 a.m. Tuesday to buy tickets, but the Internet connection at his apartment complex was very slow and wouldn’t let him log on to the site.

Fortunately, Zhang said he asked his friend who lives in the Kraettli apartments to buy his ticket for him.

Zhang said he is going with a group of friends to the OU-Texas game.

“I think [these games] are great for the university community,” Zhang said. “You have this pride and it’s great.”

Nevertheless, other obstacles hindered many students from getting tickets to this game.

Devon Carnesciali, University College freshman and season ticket holder, said she didn’t try to get tickets Tuesday morning because she had heard from several people that freshmen couldn’t get tickets until Wednesday, if any remained.

“I knew realistically I probably wouldn’t get them,” Carnesciali said.

Blake Jenkins, letters sophomore, was eligible for a ticket Tuesday morning but said he missed his chance to get one.

“It was 10:30 a.m. this morning when I remembered,” Jenkins said. “I checked and they were sold out, which is what I figured.”

Jenkins said he plans to get together with friends and watch the game in the Dallas area or remain in Norman, unless he can find a ticket to the game.