National championship tickets are widely available, brokers see falling prices
Maybe it’s Alabama-Clemson fatigue, or because of the thousands of miles that separate the stadium from Alabama and Clemson. But make no mistake, selling tickets for the upcoming national championship game is proving especially difficult. And prices have dropped dramatically compared to last year’s meeting between Alabama and Georgia.
This is the fourth straight postseason featuring an Alabama-Clemson game as the Crimson Tide have won two of the three meetings.
Last year’s get-in cost was about $1,700, but this year appears to be around $245, according to AL.com and several ticket brokers.
An upper-corner seat in Santa Clara’s Levi Stadium is the lowest found online at StubHub on Tuesday morning. Ticketmaster’s resale page had seats for just over $300, as did ticket resale search engine TicketIQ. According to TickPick, a secondary ticket marketplace, the national championship Game at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, California currently has an average listing ticket price of $1,805, with a get-in price of $452.
At this time last year, prices were 65 percent higher to watch Alabama-Georgia in Atlanta at $2,984.
“It will be interesting to see if it’s completely sold through,” Jesse Lawrence, the CEO at TicketIQ, told AL.com. “I think it will be dicey. I think there’s a pretty good chance it doesn’t sell out or there’s empty seats.”
Unprecedented low market for national championship game (Bama-Clemson). There are currently 210 tickets on StubHub to the game selling for under $400.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) January 1, 2019
Location plays a part…
Travel costs are probably the biggest issue. The TV ratings should be solid.
Nobody wants to spend 2 grand on tickets after spending nearly as much in travel and lodging. If the game was in Texas or on the east coast it’d be a sellout.
Correct.
Brokers are legal thieves.
@redsox2004 – Supply vs Demand….Prices too high? Don’t buy a ticket. There are
alternative markets, it’s not a monopoly.
Yea, people are getting tired of seeing at least one of the same two teams playing every year.
I understand the “they earned it” angle, but regardless, it gets boring.
People wanna see something else.
It’s a great time to live in Northern California!
Regardless of the two teams playing, the site of the game ought to somewhere in the central U.S….and it ought to be indoors.
It’s not fatigue. It’s location. I wouldn’t even say it’s about how far it is, just that it’s Santa Clara. If it were at the Rose Bowl, it’d be a different story. There’s history and prestige playing there. Not so much for Levi Stadium and Santa Clara.