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Ohio State: sold out 13,000
Michigan State: 6,000 of 13,000
Minnesota: 5,500 of 9,000
Wisconsin: N/A (8,500)
Nebraska: ~3,000 of 6,000
Iowa: 2,500 of 6,000
Maryland: N/A (7,500)
Penn State: sold out 7,600
Rutgers: no ticket commitment (school hoping to sell 8,000)
Illinois: N/A (6,000)

--Couldn't find anything for Wisconsin, Maryland or Illinois.

--Ohio State fans are actually outpacing Alabama fans on the secondary market for the Sugar Bowl.

--It's understandable that Michigan State is struggling to move Cotton Bowl tickets when everyone assumed they were going to the Orange Bowl, but that didn't stop Baylor's Twitter account from poking fun at Sparty.

--Nebraska travel agencies are skipping Holiday Bowl charters due to lack of interest.

--Iowa fans are going to be really, really outnumbered in Jacksonville.

--Penn State, predictaby, gobbled up Pinstripe Bowl tickets quickly.
 

Interesting to see - thanks for compiling.

Go Gophers!!
 

Great stuff, love the updates! I know I've seen it asked many time on here, but not answered, where is Mizzou at for ticket sales?
 

GopherLady said:
Great stuff, love the updates! I know I've seen it asked many time on here, but not answered, where is Mizzou at for ticket sales?
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No report on specific progress, but I can say it's probably safe to assume they're behind where we are, in terms of sales through the university. As of now, you can buy a group of 10 tickets together through their site in section P11 (Plaza Level Red Zone area). We are sold out of all Plaza-level tickets on our side.
 

Unless I'm reading the site wrong, in the areas not completely sold out there are only tickets available in at maximum 4 rows in each section and at minimum 1 row in each section. That tells me we're doing well.
 


GopherLady said:
Great stuff, love the updates! I know I've seen it asked many time on here, but not answered, where is Mizzou at for ticket sales?
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I've checked each evening for you and haven't come up with any number.

I do know they sold out their SEC Championship Game Allotment (I think it was about 16,300) and their allotment to the Cotton Bowl (13,500) last year. I would anticipate their selling a minimum of 9,000.

I'll keep checking for you though.
 



Buck_Buchanan said:
I've checked each evening for you and haven't come up with any number.

I do know they sold out their SEC Championship Game Allotment (I think it was about 16,300) and their allotment to the Cotton Bowl (13,500) last year. I would anticipate their selling a minimum of 9,000.

I'll keep checking for you though.
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On the PowerMizzou podcast they mention that 70% of Mizzou's allotment is sold.

https://missouri.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1714919

Around the 16:15 mark
 





Russ Archambault said:
On the PowerMizzou podcast they mention that 70% of Mizzou's allotment is sold.

https://missouri.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1714919

Around the 16:15 mark
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If that's true, they're outpacing us by about 1000.

Also worth noting that Missouri, while not a short drive, is a significantly easier drive to Orlando than to Minneapolis.

Missouri is an easy 1 day trip to Orlando from most places and you don't even have to drive through the night. The plane tickets seem to be equally outrageous from Kansas City, Orlando, and Minneapolis.
 

Buck_Buchanan said:
I've checked each evening for you and haven't come up with any number.

I do know they sold out their SEC Championship Game Allotment (I think it was about 16,300) and their allotment to the Cotton Bowl (13,500) last year. I would anticipate their selling a minimum of 9,000.

I'll keep checking for you though.
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So kind of you, thank you!

Russ Archambault said:
On the PowerMizzou podcast they mention that 70% of Mizzou's allotment is sold.

https://missouri.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1714919

Around the 16:15 mark
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Thanks!!!
 



Nice job Gopher Fans! Let's sell them out! We need those new facilities for non student athlete enrollment too. My son, great academic, was set on going to Florida. Now he is going to Nebraska. Loves the great facilities for Bball, Football, etc. Total Student experience.


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I know i'm going to get burned by my Gopherhole brethren for this....but in order
to get the seats we wanted, we had to go through a secondary site. I would
assume with astronomical airfare prices, a lot of others did the same to keep costs
down...
...so, we'll definitely have a good showing despite our allotment sold. I'd say, more
than 10,000? 15,000?
 

Jike Spingleton said:
Ohio State: sold out 13,000
Michigan State: 6,000 of 13,000
Minnesota: 5,500 of 9,000
Wisconsin: N/A (8,500)
Nebraska: ~3,000 of 6,000
Iowa: 2,500 of 6,000
Maryland: N/A (7,500)
Penn State: sold out 7,600
Rutgers: no ticket commitment (school hoping to sell 8,000)
Illinois: N/A (6,000)

--Couldn't find anything for Wisconsin, Maryland or Illinois.

--Ohio State fans are actually outpacing Alabama fans on the secondary market for the Sugar Bowl.

--It's understandable that Michigan State is struggling to move Cotton Bowl tickets when everyone assumed they were going to the Orange Bowl, but that didn't stop Baylor's Twitter account from poking fun at Sparty.

--Nebraska travel agencies are skipping Holiday Bowl charters due to lack of interest.

--Iowa fans are going to be really, really outnumbered in Jacksonville.

--Penn State, predictaby, gobbled up Pinstripe Bowl tickets quickly.
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Not according to what Sid says Jerry Kills said.
 

"A little over 1000 tickets sold " According to the lady in the Wisconsin ticket office.
 


GophersInIowa said:
Yeah it probably has nothing to do with the fact that Baylor is less than 100 miles away from the Cotton Bowl.
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Not to mention Sparty's coming off a Rose Bowl winning season. No offense to the Cotton Bowl (and Baylor), but you're not the Rose Bowl. Barring winning the CFP playoff, there's no way MSU fans this season were going to come close to matching the high (and heights) they reached last season.
 

GopherLady said:
So kind of you, thank you!



Thanks!!!
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Found it. Per www.kansascity.com
As of Friday afternoon, Missouri has sold roughly 6,500 tickets — approximately 70 percent of its allotment — for the Citrus Bowl against Minnesota on Jan. 1 in Orlando, Fla.

MU executive associate athletic director Bryan Maggard originally said the Tigers’ allotment would be 8,000 tickets, but that figure has been revised to 9,400.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/sports/co...of-missouri/article4458635.html#storylink=cpy
 

Buck_Buchanan said:
Found it. Per www.kansascity.com
As of Friday afternoon, Missouri has sold roughly 6,500 tickets — approximately 70 percent of its allotment — for the Citrus Bowl against Minnesota on Jan. 1 in Orlando, Fla.

MU executive associate athletic director Bryan Maggard originally said the Tigers’ allotment would be 8,000 tickets, but that figure has been revised to 9,400.
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Found this interesting. MSU AD Mark Hollis, on Sparty's lagging bowl ticket sales, as well as concern over excess boozing becoming too much of the game-day experience.

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/c...14/12/16/michigan-state-mark-hollis/20501739/
 

I heard 7200 sold reported by kfan last night around 6pm.
 

SelectionSunday said:
Found this interesting. MSU AD Mark Hollis, on Sparty's lagging bowl ticket sales, as well as concern over excess boozing becoming too much of the game-day experience.

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/c...14/12/16/michigan-state-mark-hollis/20501739/
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Yes, it is interesting. Some people demand booze, others went the college ticket route because they didn't want to be around drunks. Teams want/deserve better seats because they've earned their way to the bowl. Bowl's also want to take care of sponsors and the people who be tickets locally to support the bowl year-round.

"The number of Port-A-Johns on campus "has done nothing but gone up, and yet the need for them has been exponentially passed by the supply of Port-A-Johns," Hollis said.
"Well," he continued, "the need is because we're doing different things at football games than we used to do. … Any time you come out and say, 'Stop drinking at football games,' it sounds like we're trying to deliver a bad message, and we're not. We're saying, 'Come to this campus, have a wonderful time, keep it within the environment that is acceptable for an 8-year-old to an 80-year-old.' And I think everybody could have a lot better time, we'd have more (fans) in the stands."..


Hollis also has to worry right now about Cotton Bowl seats, with MSU selling less than 7,000 of its allotment of 13,000. Hollis and other Big Ten athletic directors have spoken out in the past about the need for bowl games to provide better seats for ticket allotments, and he said he recently spoke again about the issue with Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany.
"The tickets we have remaining are in the upper hithers of (AT&T) Stadium and fans can find seats at lower prices and much better locations than what they can find with some of the remaining tickets we have available to us," Hollis said. "Not a good business model for the participating schools. … We're not getting credit for the many Spartans that are buying tickets through the third-party (sites).."
 

Iceland12 said:
Yes, it is interesting.


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Hollis also has to worry right now about Cotton Bowl seats, with MSU selling less than 7,000 of its allotment of 13,000. Hollis and other Big Ten athletic directors have spoken out in the past about the need for bowl games to provide better seats for ticket allotments, and he said he recently spoke again about the issue with Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany.
"The tickets we have remaining are in the upper hithers of (AT&T) Stadium and fans can find seats at lower prices and much better locations than what they can find with some of the remaining tickets we have available to us," Hollis said. "Not a good business model for the participating schools. … We're not getting credit for the many Spartans that are buying tickets through the third-party (sites).."
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This pretty much sums up why bowls will be so hard to get rid of. They are a total $ scam, propped up by local chambers of commerce and the "execs" who run these as non-profits yet take huge salaries. MN should actually wear our history of low attendance as a point of pride in not being swindled as hard as the rubes from elsewhere in the midwest.

Want to go somewhere warm and watch your team? Me too. But don't for one minute feel compelled to by the extortionate rates to fly on the official charters and stay in the official hotels and sit in the official seats.
 

Then don't


golden boy said:
This pretty much sums up why bowls will be so hard to get rid of. They are a total $ scam, propped up by local chambers of commerce and the "execs" who run these as non-profits yet take huge salaries. MN should actually wear our history of low attendance as a point of pride in not being swindled as hard as the rubes from elsewhere in the midwest.

Want to go somewhere warm and watch your team? Me too. But don't for one minute feel compelled to by the extortionate rates to fly on the official charters and stay in the official hotels and sit in the official seats.
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mnsportcat said:
Then don't
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Obviously. Just making a counter-point to the "please buy from the U" crowd. It's utter nonsense IMO. Why overpay? If you want to make a donation to the AD it's better to just write them a check rather than pay them a premium for your flight/hotel.
 


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