CFP Title Game Ticket Prices on Pace to Be Most Expensive Ever

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CFP Title Game Ticket Prices on Pace to Be Most Expensive Ever​

The College Football Playoff title game between Miami and Indiana is trending towards being the most expensive on record.

The Miami-Indiana showdown in the College Football Playoff national championship game is trending toward being the most expensive title matchup on record.

Since both teams secured their spots with victories in the CFP semifinals last week, the resale ticket market has been climbing at unprecedented levels.

As of Sunday afternoon, the only tickets remaining on Ticketmaster, the game’s official ticketing provider, were resale tickets, and the cheapest was $3,565. The cheapest get-in ticket on resale marketplace TickPick was $3,370. That’s nearly double the get-in price for Ohio State–Notre Dame last year—$1,830 on TickPick—which was the previous record for the most expensive CFP national championship game.

The majority of game tickets are allocated to the two participating schools and are originally sold directly through each institution.

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CFP Title Game Ticket Prices on Pace to Be Most Expensive Ever

Since Indiana and Miami secured spots with wins in the CFP semifinals, the resale ticket market has been climbing at unprecedented levels.
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Go Gophers!!
 

The other four FBS teams to get to 15-0 won the national championship. Indiana, on the other hand, has to win one more game, on the road, in what will be a home game for the opposition and the most hostile environment in Miami for a football team in decades.
 

Goldmember said:
The other four FBS teams to get to 15-0 won the national championship. Indiana, on the other hand, has to win one more game, on the road, in what will be a home game for the opposition and the most hostile environment in Miami for a football team in decades.
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Will Miami have to use the visitors locker room in their own (sorta) home stadium? They are the road team at a neutral site as far as the CFP is concerned. They will be wearing their away whites.

I say "sorta" because us Gopher fans know very well what it's like to be a secondary tenant in a NFL and multi-purpose stadium off campus. The Miami Hurricanes may not have their own dedicated locker room at that stadium.
 


Goldmember said:
The other four FBS teams to get to 15-0 won the national championship. Indiana, on the other hand, has to win one more game, on the road, in what will be a home game for the opposition and the most hostile environment in Miami for a football team in decades.
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My hunch is there will be just as much Hoosier Crimson & Cream in the Stadium (if not more) than Hurricane Green & Orange.
 



Oh my. Have to admit, at those prices, I would really be on the fence if Gophs made the championship game.
 

What was the face value price of the worst seats, anyone know? I would guess $400 or so for crappy seats. I realize I am old and out of touch, but I cant believe people would really pay $3500 plus for crap seats, and basically watch the game on the jumbotron. I can get rich multimillionaires or billionaires dropping big cash on luxury suites or great seats, but for the average middle class fan thats crazy pricing. Maybe its just like the super bowl now I guess...
 




Goldmember said:
I hope no Indiana fan actually wears “cream”.
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I would trust the Hoosier fans go with Crimson and uppercase "Cream", as opposed to lower case.

I don't think it would last long in the Florida humidity.
 







USAF said:
You are confusing Ticketmaster with resellers.
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Usually, Ticketmaster IS the reseller for a significant portion of the inventory.

Even if they when they are not, they scrape a huge portion of the price in Fees which also drives up the price.
 

Well, IU fans haven't spent thousands of dollars over the past 20 years going to mediocre bowl games in mediocre cities.
 

Ope3 said:
My hunch is there will be just as much Hoosier Crimson & Cream in the Stadium (if not more) than Hurricane Green & Orange.
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I bet Indiana will be well represented fan wise but I don't see any way they are not fairly significantly outnumbered by the locals.

Miami will most likely have a decent home field advantage crowd wise to go along with the other comforts of playing at home.
 

MNVCGUY said:
I bet Indiana will be well represented fan wise but I don't see any way they are not fairly significantly outnumbered by the locals.

Miami will most likely have a decent home field advantage crowd wise to go along with the other comforts of playing at home.
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What percentage were they in Atlanta, 90%? Granted Oregon was 3 time zones away.

I think you are undersestmating their ability to travel.
 


Ope3 said:
What percentage were they in Atlanta, 90%? Granted Oregon was 3 time zones away.

I think you are undersestmating their ability to travel.
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Again, I have no doubt that Indiana will be well represented, their fans will definitely come out for this but so will Miami's and they have the advantage of not having to travel to get there. I could see something like a 60/40 split or something along those lines I just don't see how Miami does not have a home field advantage crowd wise.
 

MNVCGUY said:
Again, I have no doubt that Indiana will be well represented, their fans will definitely come out for this but so will Miami's and they have the advantage of not having to travel to get there. I could see something like a 60/40 split or something along those lines I just don't see how Miami does not have a home field advantage crowd wise.
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The Tony Kornheiser Show (podcast) had Bob Kravitz as a guest today. He is retired columnist based in Indianapolis. The guest indicated that the high secondary market prices were being driven more by the Hoosier fans, many being sold by Hurricane fans taking the dough and profit.

He was confident that the crowd will be at the least split or perhaps even slightly more pro-Hoosiers.

I'm riding with that. It will be fun to see how it turns out.

Capacity is 65,326. Each school gets 20,000 tickets.

If the ticket price is already $3000 - $4000 (secondary market), what's another grand or two for airfare/hotel? For those fans it's truly first time in their lives to experience such a thing. Hurricane fans under the age of 60 it's happened multiple times.

Yesterday Bills-Jags in Jacksonville, what percentage were from Buffalo? Looked like 50% to me. At least. Same sort of deal.
 

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