MNC game at NRG Stadium tickets

[utexas8 1,436]

I’ve been planning this hypothetical Houston trip for almost a month lol decided to hold off on “gambling” until we find out. Im going regardless of the price but I think they will drop from what they are now since there will be more inventory. Curious to see how many tickets are gone tomorrow after the conclusion. Tickets prices probably won’t start dropping till Thursday once people get their seat allocations.

Already have a place to stay. Arrangements for the kids have been made. Plane tickets will be purchased tomorrow. Game tickets tbd. Will wait as long as day before but I probably can’t hold that long from fomo.

The ball is in your court now, texas.

[tokamak 6,395]

One thing to think about is Bama/Michigan fans will get first crack at the secondary market tomorrow. 

[ITHorn 800]

Something I’ve noticed over last 24 hours: CFP RSVP prices are dropping fast for all four teams. I’m guessing folks who got in early are trying to lock in profit vs gambling on one more game. Going to keep an eye on this throughout the day and may strike if this trend continues and the outcome starts to become a bit clearer in the Mich/Bama game. 

[TrashMaster G 17,551]

2 hours ago, ITHorn said:

Something I’ve noticed over last 24 hours: CFP RSVP prices are dropping fast for all four teams. I’m guessing folks who got in early are trying to lock in profit vs gambling on one more game. Going to keep an eye on this throughout the day and may strike if this trend continues and the outcome starts to become a bit clearer in the Mich/Bama game. 

People playing the market are taking their profits. People actually wanting to buy tickets if their team wins are holding.

[UTexasFight 9,431]

Getting tempted to pull the trigger on bama lower level….

[utexas8 1,436]

Oh god

[utexas8 1,436]

Right before the 4th down play 2000 lowest on tik pick. Now lowest is 2300

[tokamak 6,395]

Yeah tickets jumped ~$400 instantly. 

[utexas8 1,436]

lol. The prices are gonna be unreal aren’t they.

If we do our job.

[UTexasFight 9,431]

For sure until the 40k school allotments are distributed. Going to be a challenging week and hoping and praying prices drop a ton the day or so before 

[DCA_HORN 725]

4 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

For sure until the 40k school allotments are distributed. Going to be a challenging week and hoping and praying prices drop a ton the day or so before 

Not many high money donors are selling tickets 

[tx 3 putt 76,881]

UT fans dumping their ‘tickets’

price dropped from $2500 to $1400 

[UTexasFight 9,431]

I thought for a bit I was going to pull off an amazing steal. Gambled and grabbed two rsvp’s for $400 total around the time UW went up 9.

but alas…

[ousux 5,597]

I'll be lucky to break even, $910 down the shitter.

[tx 3 putt 76,881]

7 minutes ago, ousux said:

I'll be lucky to break even, $910 down the shitter.

sell asap

sugar bowl tickets were damn cheap 20 mins before game time 

[4th&Five 41,521]

A Michigan buddy paid $2,900 for a nosebleed right after they won yesterday. Oops. 

[tx 3 putt 76,881]

13 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

A Michigan buddy paid $2,900 for a nosebleed right after they won yesterday. Oops. 

$1400 now 

[utexas8 1,436]

I’m still gonna watch prices to see how far the go down. So much time and research went into this can’t back down now. lol

[tokamak 6,395]

Yeah pretty wild swings in the last 24 hours. Get-in-the-door price went from around $2200 pre-games to a peak of nearly $3k after Michigan won to around $1600 as I type.

[utexas8 1,436]

Moral of the story. Buying cfp-rsvp as soon as it opens for next season.

[tx 3 putt 76,881]

 

[MonkeyDoughnut 10,231]

All in $1200 now for nosebleeds, seeing $2100 for lower bowl, $2500 for club

[UTexasFight 9,431]

These tickets are going to be dirt cheap right before the game (and/or once 40k tickets to the schools are distributed).

 

[tx 3 putt 76,881]

3 hours ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

All in $1200 now for nosebleeds, seeing $2100 for lower bowl, $2500 for club

it’s too early to buy 

$900 upper deck 

Edited January 2 by tx 3 putt

[orange dream 1,247]

Walk of Shame time...

Bought two on Dec. 3rd, lower bowl 15 yard line "Texas  Washington" side for a smooth 3k per ticket including fees.

Sold today for 1.8k per ticket net of fees.  In general, the listing prices still seem too high, I'm anticipating prices in that area will end up in the 650-850 range by gameday.

Edited January 2 by orange dream

[SimkinsMan 4,386]

38 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

These tickets are going to be dirt cheap right before the game (and/or once 40k tickets to the schools are distributed).

 

Agreed. I'll bet lower bowl tickets are $500 or less by game time. 

[tokamak 6,395]

4 hours ago, orange dream said:

Walk of Shame time...

Bought two on Dec. 3rd, lower bowl 15 yard line "Texas  Washington" side for a smooth 3k per ticket including fees.

Sold today for 1.8k per ticket net of fees.  In general, the listing prices still seem too high, I'm anticipating prices in that area will end up in the 650-850 range by gameday.

Honestly I think you made out ok given the circumstances. 

[ITHorn 800]

At halftime last night I was trying to buy 2 lower level CFB RSVP at 1660 each and by the time I got through the queue to select and check out only one was left. I passed hoping to get 2 later and never got back in to make it happen with the way the game flowed. 
 

Will be a fun game to play next year and I can only imagine reservations will be cheaper with more teams making playoff. 

[BurntOrange&White 39,930]

I hope you all lose your ass on this purchase of national championship tickets. You are nothing but a jinx and you should be tarred and feathered. 

[troph 24,781]

21 hours ago, utexas8 said:

Moral of the story. Buying cfp-rsvp as soon as it opens for next season.

When is that?

[troph 24,781]

I’m also wondering what kind of options there are on future Rose Bowl tickets? I need to take my mom before she gets too old (she’s 76 but still very active).

[Incredulity 11,660]

18 hours ago, orange dream said:

Walk of Shame time...

Bought two on Dec. 3rd, lower bowl 15 yard line "Texas  Washington" side for a smooth 3k per ticket including fees.

Sold today for 1.8k per ticket net of fees.  In general, the listing prices still seem too high, I'm anticipating prices in that area will end up in the 650-850 range by gameday.

username checks out

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

25 minutes ago, troph said:

I’m also wondering what kind of options there are on future Rose Bowl tickets? I need to take my mom before she gets too old (she’s 76 but still very active).

Oh, if you can please do. It's an amazing event. Parade and all. Noting that I've not been there for the actual day but those that I know that have loved it.

I don't know how difficult it is to purchase a year out, I do recall reading that the stadium is set to host one of the playoff games this fall?? But if you want the actual Rose Bowl on Jan 1, 2025 with the parade and hoopla then not sure if the ticket agencies have that but they might. Wouldn't surprise me if groups have bought if so.

[utexas8 1,436]

When is that?

Checking twitter, they opened up on 8/29 last yr.

[utexas8 1,436]

I’m surprised the tickets haven’t gone down more still 1k plus to get in the door.

[Pimphand 5,735]

On 1/2/2024 at 8:45 AM, 4th&Five said:

A Michigan buddy paid $2,900 for a nosebleed right after they won yesterday. Oops. 

I will never understand the panic rush to buy tickets ASAP it just never makes sense.

[troph 24,781]

19 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Oh, if you can please do. It's an amazing event. Parade and all. Noting that I've not been there for the actual day but those that I know that have loved it.

I don't know how difficult it is to purchase a year out, I do recall reading that the stadium is set to host one of the playoff games this fall?? But if you want the actual Rose Bowl on Jan 1, 2025 with the parade and hoopla then not sure if the ticket agencies have that but they might. Wouldn't surprise me if groups have bought if so.

my ex and I went to the Mich and USC rose bowls, best college football experience of a lifetime. New Year's Eve in LA/Santa Monica (early dinner), Jan 1 early in Pasadena for the parade, then move over to the game. Day after go see the floats on display up close. Unbelievable. My mom needs to see it. She's an old lady and has said many times "I don't do drugs or alcohol, I'm too old for sex, but I do do Texas football." Getting her to the Rose Bowl with Texas there is a must. She may already be too old but if she gets a disabled parking pass I bet she can do it.

Edited January 3 by troph

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4 minutes ago, Pimphand said:

I will never understand the panic rush to buy tickets ASAP it just never makes sense.

except for Texas v USC I've never seen tickets do anything other thank spike at or shortly after announcement and drop all the way to game time.  I could see the next Texas championship game going the same way though.

[Not a cat 5,652]

2 minutes ago, troph said:

except for Texas v USC I've never seen tickets do anything other thank spike at or shortly after announcement and drop all the way to game time.  I could see the next Texas championship game going the same way though.

This.  I think you need 1) 2 blue bloods, 2) near campus of one of them so they don't incur travel costs, and 3)  one (or both) hasn't won a championship in a while and is full of highly paid fanatical alums.  Or Michigan/Texas this year if it had happened. 

Even then, I wonder if the ubiquity today of internet brokers would change the calculus.  In January 2006 there were just no extra tickets available. I'm not sure if internet brokers would alleviate supply problem or just goose demand even higher in the same situation today.

[dcar00 14,160]

10 minutes ago, troph said:

except for Texas v USC I've never seen tickets do anything other thank spike at or shortly after announcement and drop all the way to game time.  I could see the next Texas championship game going the same way though.

This.  Friday is probably the day but I wouldn't have any problem waiting until Sunday early if I was going and didnt have a ticket.

Texas USC was the weirdest ticket market ever.  there were almost no scalpers with tickets anywhere.

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

If Nebraska ever got enough wins to be eligible,  their fans would be paying premium even if it was the HimandHermiroids Bowl

[orange dream 1,247]

13 hours ago, tokamak said:

Honestly I think you made out ok given the circumstances. 

Oh, I agree.  Listed them at midnight when our game ended for around what I paid for them hoping to catch a drunk Michigan or Husky fan.  Dropped to about 10% below the prevailing price in my and neighboring sections around 10:30 or 11 Tuesday morning and they were sold within a couple of hours.  Prices this morning are below what I sold for and not selling.

The TX/USC Rose Bowl was an outlier.  Another one was Georgia vs. Bama CFP Championship game at the end of the 2017 season in ATLANTA.  My son and I had planned a trip to that game early in the season.  It was Georgia's first Championship opportunity in close to 40 years.  I watched tix on that for a while anticipating / hoping for a drop that never came.  Ended up paying close to double what I had originally anticipated but by then my son and I were sitting in our hotel in Atlanta starting to figure out what time we should head over to the stadium. 

I think this game in Houston with Texas (especially if it had been Texas vs. Michigan) would have been ridiculous for ticket prices.  I rolled the dice and lost, but

[TexasGolf 4,896]

lucky to get invited to go to the game.   taking my son who's mom went to Michigan so he's super pumped.

was really hoping to watch Texas Monday night but being able to treat my son is special too. 

thinking 2027 we get to see (in person) Texas vs Michigan in Austin since we wont probably make it to Ann Arbor this fall.

 

[Skipper 6,130]

On 1/2/2024 at 10:38 AM, utexas8 said:

Moral of the story. Buying cfp-rsvp as soon as it opens for next season.

Texas/Michigan would have been the perfect storm.  But with this being the last year of the 4 team playoff, we may never see championship game ticket prices reach that potential again.  They will continue to jack up face value, and you combine that with travel costs for multiple rounds of playoffs, it will be tougher to reach peak demand.  I think if the Championship game is reasonable driving distance from Texas (i.e., any Texas city or NOLA) it would still be a good bet to buy those early.  But outside of that, not sure the upside will ever be close to what it was for those that bought early this year.

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17 minutes ago, Skipper said:

Texas/Michigan would have been the perfect storm.  But with this being the last year of the 4 team playoff, we may never see championship game ticket prices reach that potential again.  They will continue to jack up face value, and you combine that with travel costs for multiple rounds of playoffs, it will be tougher to reach peak demand.  I think if the Championship game is reasonable driving distance from Texas (i.e., any Texas city or NOLA) it would still be a good bet to buy those early.  But outside of that, not sure the upside will ever be close to what it was for those that bought early this year.

Next year (2025) is in Atlanta, not the easiest drive but completely doable. AZ is doable too. Miami, LA, not at all. I'd have a gaggle of kids and kin folk so except for the Rose Bowl (2026 is Hard Rock in Miami which we would skip), we are driving. even if it's like this:

 

 

but to your point, quarters and semis are the bowls - Peach, Orange, Fiesta, Cotton, Rose and Sugar, national championship is elsewhere but neutral. That's an expensive habit to do three straight.  I bet there will be some empties in the quarter finals. Rose Bowl Jan 1 for the quarter finals would be sublime across the board - right day, likelihood of winning, Rose Bowl, depressed prices.

Edited January 3 by troph

[tokamak 6,395]

I think the 12 team format is really going to crush demand for the semis and quarterfinals. There's just not many people that will have the financial ability to fly somewhere 3 weeks in a row (or even 4 if they're not a top 4 seed). We saw this with the Sugar Bowl where Washington fans didn't show. Michigan is a big fanbase that was starving just like us, so they showed up for the Rose this year, but in the 12-team future, there won't be these decades-long droughts between appearances.

[UTexasFight 9,431]

16 minutes ago, tokamak said:

I think the 12 team format is really going to crush demand for the semis and quarterfinals. There's just not many people that will have the financial ability to fly somewhere 3 weeks in a row (or even 4 if they're not a top 4 seed). We saw this with the Sugar Bowl where Washington fans didn't show. Michigan is a big fanbase that was starving just like us, so they showed up for the Rose this year, but in the 12-team future, there won't be these decades-long droughts between appearances.

For sure.

just need to study ticket trends with bama fans for how a 12 team playoff will look

or switching sports, Astros fans. I rarely attend an LDS game these days and typically only 1 or 2 LCS games saving all the powder for the World Series.

[BurntOrange&White 39,930]

Just now, UTexasFight said:

For sure.

just need to study ticket trends with bama fans for how a 12 team playoff will look

or switching sports, Astros fans. I rarely attend an LDS game these days and typically only 1 or 2 LCS games saving all the powder for the World Series.

Opening rounds are home games 5-8 seeds, right?

 

Semi's and finals are neutral sites. So you'll have an idea 3 weeks in advance for pre-purchase.

[tokamak 6,395]

12 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Opening rounds are home games 5-8 seeds, right?

 

Semi's and finals are neutral sites. So you'll have an idea 3 weeks in advance for pre-purchase.

Yeah 5-8 get a home game against 9-12. Quarters and semis are at the existing bowls. Championship at a rotating site.

[Skipper 6,130]

I can see the semis being where ticket pricing is really dirt cheap.  You can still pair the quarters with a NYE trip/vacation a lot of people would be doing anyways.   But tacking on another trip with the possibility of a championship and I can see a ton of folks (potentially myself included) that would plan on quarters and finals with semis on TV.