Ticket prices for the College Football Playoff National Championship Game between No. 1 Indiana and No. 10 Miami are at absurdly high ranges.
As of Saturday morning, the cheapest ticket for the Jan. 19 game on GameTime is over $3,500, together with charges. That worth is 1000’s of {dollars} larger than the typical ticket worth of any of the earlier 5 nationwide title video games on GameTime.
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There are a pair of apparent causes for the high prices. The game is at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens the place Miami performs its dwelling video games. And the Hurricanes are enjoying for his or her first nationwide championship because the 2001 season.
Indiana, in the meantime, has by no means received a nationwide title in soccer. And its followers are having fun with each minute of its undefeated season. Hoosier followers flooded Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta for Friday evening’s Peach Bowl blowout of Oregon. It’s not an exaggeration to say that greater than 80% of the gang was sporting crimson. Indiana has the biggest dwelling alumni base of any faculty within the nation; there are tons of alums who would like to see their faculty play for a nationwide title.
Big-game ticket prices sometimes come down on the secondary market as kickoff approaches, however this 12 months’s title game may largely show to be the exception to that rule. Last 12 months’s common ticket worth for Ohio State’s win over Notre Dame was simply over $2,700. And even that was over $700 larger than the typical ticket worth for Michigan’s win over TCU in January 2024.
Yes, the typical ticket prices for the final two title video games had been significantly beneath the present worth to easily get within the constructing. Will that maintain?