The high school football season gets into full swing Friday night. Omaha Public Schools has changed its admission policy for students that now includes a fee for attending games not involving their team.

Until this year, a $35 activity card would get OPS high school students into any regular season game. Now if an OPS student wants to sit in the stands at an OPS game that doesn't involve his or her school, then it’s going to cost $3.

One of the season openers on tap Friday takes place at Bryan Stadium with the Bears hosting Omaha South. Bryan High principal Dave Collins says it's only fair to give the participating schools priority in the seats.

"When you start drawing really big crowds, whether it's a football game or a basketball game, you want your own kids in there. You want your own paying adults, paying kids. You want those kids that are going to your school in there."

Friday’s games could be the first time some have heard of the policy. "I have not heard one thing from our kids saying why do we have to pay to go watch another game and my answer would be, well it's not your home school, so you're like everybody else," says Collins.

Crowd control can always be a problem at big games, but Collins says there was no particular incident that led to the policy change.

"This is something that we've been discussing as building principals and administration for about three years, so I don't think it was necessarily one incident. I just think after talking about it, discussing it for about three years, we just decided to make the change."

The new policy doesn't just apply to football, but all sports through the year.