Not really--different teams do their ticketing at different times. A lot of places do not have "reserved" season tickets--they move them around some depending on donations, etc. (tOSU is one of these**). PSU knows they have X tickets by the contract--so they can parse those out. They just don't know exactly where they will be yet. When our local chapter got ND, Me-Chicken, and tOSU tickets (at different times), we had to pay before knowing where they were and they didn;t come right away either. Frankly it's nice to know early that you have tickets even if you know 100% where they are, as one can then make travel plans.
**tOSU sometimes did not send out single game tickets until the week before the season started--I know tOSU folks who got shafted a few years back as they were bumped out of the game they were originally assigned to into the opening game and they were away on vacation (Labor Day) when the tickets came and only found out when they got back. That has since changed.