Anyone notice...

[WildBill]

The supposed dream matchup, SC and Oklahoma, number 1 and number 2. Now go to Ebay and search for tickets. Face value is generally in the $150-300 range. The few ticket offers with bids are going for about $50 a ticket!!! Thats right, the tickets are being bid for FAR below face value. What the hell is going on down there?

Got any comment on this Rail?

 

[jjgold]

not too many interested in this game

 

[Fishhead]

I have been to numerous bowl games(and other big sporting events) in my lifetime and you will ALMOST always be able to scalp tickets 30 miniutes before game time for about half their face value........Super Bowls excluded.......which by the way doesnt even compare to a top-notch bowl game.........WAY OVERRATED AND EXPENSIVE.

Another factor in this game..........USC is not a good traveling team, one of the very worst of any elite program in the country.

Allready knew this, but was never more evident than two years ago when i attended the USC-IOWA Orange Bowl game.

From the time I arrived at the stadium at noon, till kick-off at 8pm, I swear i never seen OVER 50 USC fans TOTAL! Meanwhile, there were no LESS than 55,000 IOWA fans that i tailgated with in those 8 hours! Even with the game sold out, tickets could be had for about one third face value 30 miniutes before kick-off.

At the LSU-IOWA game this year, purchased 4 30 yard line 2nd level 3rd row seats(GREAT SEATS) for $40 each..............$75 face value. If I had shopped a little more and waited a tad longer, could have even done better than that but was to intoxicated and didnt want to mess around, and thus didnt really care.

 

[WildBill]

I say this because people are all convinced we need playoffs. I think interest in a college playoff is overrated. Sure many would watch, but it wouldn't capture the nation like the college basketball tournament does.

 

[miked429]

college football like baseball is a regional sport.this game in ny tonight wont beat a red sox vs yankee or met vs yankees regular season game in the ratings.

 

[Fishhead]

I say this because people are all convinced we need playoffs. I think interest in a college playoff is overrated. Sure many would watch, but it wouldn't capture the nation like the college basketball tournament does.

The FINAL FOUR is another overrated event that I will never attend again unless IOWA is in it.

Bowl games and college football in general are by far the most fun of any live sporting event that one could attend IMO...........expecially if your a fan of a BIG TEN or SEC team...........great fans abound from both these conferences.

 

[jwunderdog]

A little surprised that the championship game is that easy to get tickets for, but most bowl games give a lot of freebbie tickets to sponsors and clients that have no interest in the game itself hence always some easy tickets to get a hold of.