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Travel demands of 12-team College Football Playoff add momentum to ticket prices for title game

ATLANTA — Notre Dame and Ohio State fans have had to endure unprecedented travel demands throughout college football’s first 12-team playoff to reach Monday night’s national championship game. “It’s actually already surpassed the final sales of every national championship game on StubHub.” Vivid Seats, another ticket marketplace, reports the game is its “hottest college football ticket” since 2009, with an an average price of $2,269 and the least expensive at $1,452. Brett Daniels, senior director of communications for the CFP, said each school exhausted its allotment of 20,000 tickets as the game is designed to produce a “neutral site feeling.” Fighting Irish boast big fan base Notre Dame’s national fan base makes it difficult to predict the fan turnout based on sales by states. It’s big, but not Super big Bocanegra said “I don’t think I’ve seen a championship game like this” in terms of the demand and price for tickets in college sports.

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Texas raising football ticket prices ahead of rising costs in paying players and more scholarships

Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas will be raising football season ticket prices by $13 per game next season as the program, already one of the richest in the nation, tries to meet rising costs. Athletic director Chris Del Conte announced the price increase this week in his annual campus town hall, where he detailed the program’s expected finances upon final approval …

2 months ago

Notre Dame and Ohio State arrive in Atlanta and it’s the 2nd visit of the season for Fighting Irish

Associated Press

ATLANTA — Ohio State and Notre Dame arrived in Atlanta on charter flights Friday as the teams moved closer to the College Football Playoff national championship game Monday night. In a game that strengthened Notre Dame’s playoff hopes, the Fighting Irish beat Georgia Tech 31-13 on Oct. 19 as quarterback Riley Leonard ran for two touchdowns. The South’s claim to …

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Playoff game at Ohio State has sold 34% more tickets than Notre Dame game on StubHub

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The Indiana vs. Notre Dame matchup in the first round of the College Football Playoff is the most expensive ticket on StubHub, but it’s Tennessee vs. Ohio State that’s selling the fastest. StubHub spokesperson Adam Budelli said Monday that the game being hosted in Columbus, Ohio, …

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Big game at the Big House as No. 4 Texas visits No. 10 Michigan for 1st regular-season clash

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan’s Davis Warren may not have the credentials of Texas quarterbacks Quinn Ewers and Arch Manning. The former five-star recruit skipped his final season of high school in 2021, and enrolled early at Ohio State, where he was on the sideline and …

1 year, 1 month ago

ESPN, College Football Playoff agree on 6-year deal worth $1.3 billion annually, AP sources say

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! ESPN and the College Football Playoff have agreed to a six-year deal worth $1.3 billion annually that allows the network to keep exclusive rights to the 12-team playoff through the 2031 season, two people with knowledge of the agreement told The Associated Press. ESPN was first …

2 years, 5 months ago

The future of College Football, Inc.: Where the sport’s money and management go from here

New York Times

“Dramatic changes are necessary to permit athletes to participate in the enormous proceeds.” When longtime NCAA president Walter Byers said those words about college athletics in 1995, the Big Ten’s annual revenue was around $50 million. “There’s general agreement, at least among FBS programs, that we need a new model to govern football and certain parts of what we do …

3 years, 4 months ago

NFL’s best and worst pocketbook values based on fan game day costs, winning

New York Times

The Cincinnati Bengals sit at 5-3 and may be a legitimate deep-run playoff contender — Sunday’s loss to the J-E-T-S sparks a little concern. It costs $437.30 to take a family or group of four to a Bengals game at Paul Brown Stadium, and that’s the cheapest among the NFL’s 32 teams, per a new analysis of ballpark pricing from …

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