While the football team waits until Sunday to hear where it will make another bowl appearance, some ISU students who traveled to previous bowl games are thinking about staying home.

Trevor Helmers, junior in psychology, said he loved traveling to both of the previous bowl games in Arizona and Louisiana.

“When I went to Phoenix two years ago, the only people I saw in downtown Phoenix were Cyclone fans,” he said. “It was great to see the other Iowa State fans who may not get a chance to go to the other games.”

Helmers said he might follow the football team this year, too — if the Cyclones play in the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, Fla.

“I was totally planning to go to a game,” he said. “But Boise is so cold. I wanted to go somewhere warm.”

Helmers, who went to every home game this season as well as the Eddie Robinson Classic in Kansas City and the Iowa game, said the weather isn’t the only problem. It’s also the expenses and hassles that come with making long-distance travel plans in a short amount of time.

“It’d be pretty tough to try to figure out a way,” he said. “There are so many problems to try to go to a bowl on the 23rd that it’s not worth trying.”

Wendy Baxter, senior in elementary education, went to Shreveport, La., last year for the Independence Bowl. She said she’s not likely to travel this year because she doesn’t have the money.

“I’d consider going if it’s somewhere warm, but [travel] would be a lot more expensive,” Baxter said. “I’m definitely not going to Boise.”

Athletic department officials will announce Sunday whether the Cyclones will play in the Dec. 23 Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, the Dec. 26 Motor City Bowl in Detroit or the Dec. 31 Humanitarian Bowl in Boise, Idaho.

Students who want to go to the game can buy tickets beginning at 8 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 13 at the Hilton Ticket Office, said David Crum, assistant athletic director in charge of ticket sales.

“We have to wait until we have the actual tickets in hand,” Crum said.

He said he doesn’t expect any problems getting tickets from the appropriate bowl in time to distribute them to students.

Prices are $35 for the Humanitarian Bowl and $45 for the Motor City and Tangerine Bowls.

Crum said ISU fans will have 5,000 to 10,000 seats at the Humanitarian and Motor City Bowls and about 12,000 seats at the Tangerine Bowl.

He said season ticket holders, who could submit requests for tickets beginning Wednesday, are asking for seats at all three games.

Helmers said he hopes that ISU fans will fill the stadium.

“If we do play in Boise and people don’t go, it could hurt us next year,” he said. “The last two years, so many people have gone. The way we travel is a huge plus to Iowa State that it would probably hurt us.”