Current Ticket Prices for 1st Round Games

[BigTimeVols]

Cheapest Ticket on TM for the following games:

SMU at Penn State $82
Vols at OSU $179
Clemson at Texas $136
Indiana at Notre Dame $569

This is super interesting to me. Before games were announced I assumed all these matchups would cost similar to the Notre Dame price.

What reason would you believe is the cause for cheaper tickets?

I may be remembering incorrectly but were there not upper deck tickets for over $200 for the Kent state game in Neyland?

 

[VolunteerVandiver]

No doubt that the average ticket price would be much higher if the VOLS hosted

 

[Ritzwatch]

Cheapest Ticket on TM for the following games:

SMU at Penn State $82
Vols at OSU $179
Clemson at Texas $136
Indiana at Notre Dame $569

This is super interesting to me. Before games were announced I assumed all these matchups would cost similar to the Notre Dame price.

What reason would you believe is the cause for cheaper tickets?

I may be remembering incorrectly but were there not upper deck tickets for over $200 for the Kent state game in Neyland?

I think some of the math comes down to 2 things:

1. Students are not on campus, freeing up 15,000 tickets or so.
2. Big donors were leveraging their tickets: Sell the tickets. If you win, you have seed money to try to go to your team's bowl/national title game. If you lose, well, you made money and aren't pissed about sitting in the cold to watch a loss.

 

[Mrvols1731]

I just got tickets in 6A for $180 so prices are going down! Volnation needs to step up the takeover of the shoe! GO VOLS

 

[DaddyChad]

Cheapest Ticket on TM for the following games:

SMU at Penn State $82
Vols at OSU $179
Clemson at Texas $136
Indiana at Notre Dame $569

This is super interesting to me. Before games were announced I assumed all these matchups would cost similar to the Notre Dame price.

What reason would you believe is the cause for cheaper tickets?

I may be remembering incorrectly but were there not upper deck tickets for over $200 for the Kent state game in Neyland?

I’m guessing most Buckeye fans don’t want to freeze their buckeyes off watching a Ryan Day coaching display.

 

[Vfl2407]

I’m guessing most Buckeye fans don’t want to freeze their buckeyes off watching a Ryan Day coaching display.

True because all men know that cold causes shrinkage to buckeyes.

 

[Hulavol]

No doubt that the average ticket price would be much higher if the VOLS hosted

They would be insane prices - probably the highest we’ve ever seen.

 

[AthensVol2007]

I think some of the math comes down to 2 things:

1. Students are not on campus, freeing up 15,000 tickets or so.
2. Big donors were leveraging their tickets: Sell the tickets. If you win, you have seed money to try to go to your team's bowl/national title game. If you lose, well, you made money and aren't pissed about sitting in the cold to watch a loss.

I don’t think it’s freeing student tickets up, OSU boards say their students could buy tickets for $35 and they sold out. However, said students are now selling those tickets so that’s partly the reason there are so many on the secondary market. It’s not like the schools have 15k extra tickets to sell to the general public now, i.e. there’s an oversupply. The students see an opportunity to make a couple hundred $ and if they don’t get that, perhaps they show up.

 

[Jax_Vol]

In their most recent game, the sloppy loss to much hated MeatChicken.

It either:

Makes them more dangerous,

or knock them out while wobbly.

 

[volfanvfl]

If anyone needs a single I have a 11C Row 1 ticket if you're looking to avoid the fees and Venmo instead

 

[zeppelin128]

Cheapest I saw on vivid seats for Vols tix just a bit ago was $132.

 

[Volfan1000]

Cheapest Ticket on TM for the following games:

SMU at Penn State $82
Vols at OSU $179
Clemson at Texas $136
Indiana at Notre Dame $569

This is super interesting to me. Before games were announced I assumed all these matchups would cost similar to the Notre Dame price.

What reason would you believe is the cause for cheaper tickets?

I may be remembering incorrectly but were there not upper deck tickets for over $200 for the Kent state game in Neyland?

Bobby Denton would bark Pay those prices and pay no more.

 

[bubbag]

Cheapest Ticket on TM for the following games:

SMU at Penn State $82
Vols at OSU $179
Clemson at Texas $136
Indiana at Notre Dame $569

This is super interesting to me. Before games were announced I assumed all these matchups would cost similar to the Notre Dame price.

What reason would you believe is the cause for cheaper tickets?

I may be remembering incorrectly but were there not upper deck tickets for over $200 for the Kent state game in Neyland?

After the initial release on the aftermarket, buyer behavior sets the price. It's simple supply and demand.

Not a lot of locals here are buying tickets on the aftermarket. The folks who bought up tickets with the intent of resale seriously overestimated what the demand will be for tickets here locally. They did not have a good read on fan sentiment. There just isn't as much excitement for the game as there is in Tn. Why that is the case is open for debate but that is the reality.

The fanbase is still discussing the game against Michigan more than they are the upcoming game. There is a lot of incredulity and a lot of anger directed at Day. Skepticism pervades the fanbase at the moment and they feel let down again and are waiting for another axe to fall because that has been the trend under Day. BJork doesn't get it and his comments just made it worse. He is still a newcomer who is an outsider and doesn't understand the dynamic here. The game with Michigan means everything to fans and the inexcusable choke is being brushed off. Bjork doesn't understand why fans just don't let it go and focus on the playoffs. Outsiders looking in won't understand either, but fans are still ticked off. The bottom line is Day is going to have to prove he can win a big game before fans get too excited about the prospects again. As far as worry about Vols fans buying up the tickets, what you might here is , 'Let them have the tickets. I am not paying money around the busy holidays just to sit in the cold and watch Day inevitably choke away talent again. '

I do not think this way and think some fans are not being rational about this. But that is the emotional sentiment of a good number of locals right now. The fourth straight loss to Michigan has created a revolt against Day and turned most pessimistic. The only way he redeems himself to the masses is by going to the finals.

 

[AthensVol2007]

After the initial release on the aftermarket, buyer behavior sets the price. It's simple supply and demand.

Not a lot of locals here are buying tickets on the aftermarket. The folks who bought up tickets with the intent of resale seriously overestimated what the demand will be for tickets here locally. They did not have a good read on fan sentiment. There just isn't as much excitement for the game as there is in Tn. Why that is the case is open for debate but that is the reality.

The fanbase is still discussing the game against Michigan more than they are the upcoming game. There is a lot of incredulity and a lot of anger directed at Day. Skepticism pervades the fanbase at the moment and they feel let down again and are waiting for another axe to fall because that has been the trend under Day. BJork doesn't get it and his comments just made it worse. He is still a newcomer who is an outsider and doesn't understand the dynamic here. The game with Michigan means everything to fans and the inexcusable choke is being brushed off. Bjork doesn't understand why fans just don't let it go and focus on the playoffs. Outsiders looking in won't understand either, but fans are still ticked off. The bottom line is Day is going to have to prove he can win a big game before fans get too excited about the prospects again. As far as worry about Vols fans buying up the tickets, what you might here is , 'Let them have the tickets. I am not paying money around the busy holidays just to sit in the cold and watch Day inevitably choke away talent again. '

I do not think this way and think some fans are not being rational about this. But that is the emotional sentiment of a good number of locals right now. The fourth straight loss to Michigan has created a revolt against Day and turned most pessimistic. The only way he redeems himself to the masses is by going to the finals.

I asked once before but didn’t see a response; what do secondary market tickets typically go for, for B1G games around there? Based on the complaints over pricing I’ve seen, I can only assume OSU fans are used to considerably cheaper tickets than we are. Our resellers are either extremely greedy and we’ve learned to live with it, or the demand/excitement is greater around the UT fanbase overall.

 

[Vols1498]

This is on the Gametime app

 

[bubbag]

I asked once before but didn’t see a response; what do secondary market tickets typically go for, for B1G games around there? Based on the complaints over pricing I’ve seen, I can only assume OSU fans are used to considerably cheaper tickets than we are. Our resellers are either extremely greedy and we’ve learned to live with it, or the demand/excitement is greater around the UT fanbase overall.

It depends entirely on the opponent and varies wildly. If a team like Akron comes in, you can get an aftermarket ticket for relatively close to face value. For a team like Maryland or Iowa, you can get a decent seat for perhaps 20% above face value. A big game against Penn State, you will see prices similar to what you see here for this game. For the Michigan game, it's through the roof, especially if you wait until the last minute.

Here was the standard single-game ticket price for the season per the OSU athletics office. These are the non-premium seats and dont include club section seating, etc . It's what you would pay for a single ticket to the game listed if you purchased during the pre-season directly from OSU,

 

[AthensVol2007]

It depends entirely on the opponent and varies wildly. If a team like Akron comes in, you can get an aftermarket ticket for relatively close to face value. For a team like Maryland or Iowa, you can get a decent seat for perhaps 20% above face value. A big game against Penn State, you will see prices similar to what you see here for this game. For the Michigan game, it's through the roof, especially if you wait until the last minute.

Here was the standard single-game ticket price for the season per the OSU athletics office. These are the non-premium seats and dont include club section seating, etc . It's what you would pay for a single ticket to the game listed if you purchased during the pre-season directly from OSU,

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So the secondary market for this game lines up with the face value (apparently) for the Michigan game while this is a more meaningful game, a rarer matchup and first of its kind game and yet so many on Eleven Warriors are whining about prices. The dichotomy in excitement and perceived affordability for this game between the 2 fanbases, to me at least, is summed up like this; my crew consisting of friends and siblings are coming from Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Nashville, Memphis and Chicago while OSU fans are the ones selling us the tickets and the OSU ones who are wanting to attend think it’s too expensive.