[Farm93]

i could see Alabama or Ohio State doing this.  any school with a large, loyal fanbase.  
but Stanford, the school with the smallest fanbase in the conference?

Bama is not exactly the center of the tech universe.

Let's flip this around.   Stanford University, the place that gave its football players iPads to use as playbooks, will of course be pioneers in using electronic based systems for its college gameday operations.   

Running two or more systems is really a worst case scenario for audits and fraud control.   My guess is they will let people use paper, for a while and at a cost, if the customers insist.  And each year it will become more difficult and expensive to get access to a paper ticket.  Over time this idea of paper tickets will be something similar to trying to get a Sears (paper) catalog to order your next washing machine.   

FWIW -
I still print out my boarding passes for airplanes for fear my phone will run out of juice or get lost, but in my experience more than half of airline passengers in the USA are using their phones and have no real backup plan.  Shows my age, I guess.

Remember when airlines and travel agents used paper ticket packets with carbon paper? 
Does anyone on this board still use travel agent printed paper airplane tickets?

[Farm93]

i could see Alabama or Ohio State doing this.  any school with a large, loyal fanbase.  
but Stanford, the school with the smallest fanbase in the conference?

Bama is not exactly the center of the tech universe.

Let's flip this around.   Stanford University, the place that gave its football players iPads to use as playbooks, will of course be pioneers in using electronic based systems for its college gameday operations.   

Running two or more systems is really a worst case scenario for audits and fraud control.   My guess is they will let people use paper, for a while and at a cost, if the customers insist.  And each year it will become more difficult and expensive to get access to a paper ticket.  Over time this idea of paper tickets will be something similar to trying to get a Sears (paper) catalog to order your next washing machine.   

FWIW -
I still print out my boarding passes for airplanes for fear my phone will run out of juice or get lost, but in my experience more than half of airline passengers in the USA are using their phones and have no real backup plan.  Shows my age, I guess.

Remember when airlines and travel agents used paper ticket packets with carbon paper? 
Does anyone on this board still use travel agent printed paper airplane tickets?