MNC game at NRG Stadium tickets

[Horn of Gabriel 1,590]

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.

How does this work exactly?  When you buy the option if it hits, you get a ticket but is it "whatever they have available in the nosebleeds" or can you buy an option for a certain type of seat?

[ITHorn 797]

Just now, Horn of Gabriel said:

How does this work exactly?  When you buy the option if it hits, you get a ticket but is it "whatever they have available in the nosebleeds" or can you buy an option for a certain type of seat?

They sell certain types of seats. For this season, you could have bought an upper or a lower RSVP and it told you what part of the Texas section they would be in ahead of time. They were both corner end zone this season.

[markstanco 12,504]

1 hour ago, tokamak said:

but in the 12-team future, there won't be these decades-long droughts between appearances.

[thunderlounge 7,754]

I wonder how it takes them to figure it out, and end up putting the second round on-campus as well. Leaving semi’s and final located like they do now. 

[Not a cat 5,615]

4 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

I wonder how it takes them to figure it out, and end up putting the second round on-campus as well. Leaving semi’s and final located like they do now. 

This is the way.  Gives another advantage to the better seed, making the regular season still important, and allows for better attendance at each game.  

How would the money split work on those games?  Does home team keep all revenues from game or split profits with visitor?  I know in regular season games it's the former but the latter seems to make sense for playoffs IMO 

[utexas8 1,433]

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.

Yeah but I think at the beginning of the year they are really cheap like $10. Face value + 10 is not bad if you hit. I wouldn’t do it every year but Texas has a good chance next with ewers back so I think I’ll do it next year.

Where is the championship next year?

[tokamak 6,351]

29 minutes ago, utexas8 said:

Yeah but I think at the beginning of the year they are really cheap like $10. Face value + 10 is not bad if you hit. I wouldn’t do it every year but Texas has a good chance next with ewers back so I think I’ll do it next year.

Where is the championship next year?

Atlanta 2025, Miami 2026

[Not a cat 5,615]

31 minutes ago, utexas8 said:

Yeah but I think at the beginning of the year they are really cheap like $10. Face value + 10 is not bad if you hit. I wouldn’t do it every year but Texas has a good chance next with ewers back so I think I’ll do it next year.

Where is the championship next year?

If they're only 10 bucks, I'd buy ones for each of the usual suspects that have large fanbases and resell when one or both hits.  Seems a cheaper way to do a futures bet on a team making the finals.  

[MAUFRAIS 6,573]

I wonder how it takes them to figure it out, and end up putting the second round on-campus as well. Leaving semi’s and final located like they do now. 

Fuck. I thought this was what it was and have been telling people who think I know what I’m talking about.

[troph 24,562]

3 hours 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.

4 rounds, only 1st round is a home game. the other 3 rounds (quarters, semis, finals) are bowls or neutral site.  final is never a bowl game, the quarters and semis are the traditional big bowls (Peach, Orange, Cotton, Fiesta, Sugar and Rose).

[Ignatius 4,000]

3 hours ago, thunderlounge said:

I wonder how it takes them to figure it out, and end up putting the second round on-campus as well. Leaving semi’s and final located like they do now. 

Yeah right now they’re still semi-beholden to the bowl mafia, but that will die off soon enough…

[troph 24,562]

53 minutes ago, Ignatius said:

Yeah right now they’re still semi-beholden to the bowl mafia, but that will die off soon enough…

I’d rather it not. CFB is about tradition and the bowls are a huge part of it. The quarters are the most appealing to me for that reason 

 

btw everyone or a anyone who knows - how does the early season option work? You buy and you can sell it later? Not out the ticket price until teams are set? So you could make a few bucks? 

[ITHorn 797]

Correct. After you buy it you can sell it at whatever price the market dictates up until the semi final game goes final. I believe they take 25% fees, but if you get in early you could make some very good money if you buy a team like Texas early before everyone saw them play Alabama. You don’t have to pay for anything other than the RSVP until your team qualifies for the championship. 

[thunderlounge 7,754]

3 hours ago, MAUFRAIS said:

Fuck. I thought this was what it was and have been telling people who think I know what I’m talking about.

Yeah, you probably shouldn’t have done that. 

[n64ra 1,076]

Does CFP-RSVP just do the championship game or do they do the semifinals too? I'll take a shot at the semi at the Cotton Bowl and the title game in Atlanta. 

[utexas8 1,433]

Does CFP-RSVP just do the championship game or do they do the semifinals too? I'll take a shot at the semi at the Cotton Bowl and the title game in Atlanta. 

Just the championship.

[UTexasFight 9,376]

They ain’t gonna be $10 when they open up. Not for the usual suspects.

maybe the school a couple of hours to the East.

I recall upthread folks posting they got us for $30 early this year, but I’ll be surprised if lower level are anything under $100 out of the gate. 

[Ignatius 4,000]

 

6 hours ago, troph said:

I’d rather it not. CFB is about tradition and the bowls are a huge part of it. The quarters are the most appealing to me for that reason 

I’m talking about the bowl game organizers more than the sites themselves; their bullshit is why we only got 13K tickets this week. The title game against Alabama wasn’t the Rose Bowl, but it didn’t feel any different to me than the USC game did four years earlier (except, obviously, for the game outcome)….

[DanTheHorn 4,897]

Semis need to turn into home games. That way it is still just two games for all out travel.

[BurntOrange&White 39,618]

4 hours ago, DanTheHorn said:

Semis need to turn into home games. That way it is still just two games for all out travel.

Just be ranked in the top 8.

[DanTheHorn 4,897]

2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Just be ranked in the top 8.

That is still 3 away travel games if semis are not made home games. Also, semis at home are a big reward for being a top 4 conference champion if you make past the NYG quarters. People can make a game during holiday dates. Also, they will make it to final game but would you go to semis after traveling to quarterfinals?

Edited January 4 by DanTheHorn

[BurntOrange&White 39,618]

1 minute ago, DanTheHorn said:

That is still 3 away travel games if semis are not made home games. Also, semis at home are a big reward for being a top 4 conference champion if you make past the NYG quarters.

And? 

Edited January 4 by BurntOrange&White

[DanTheHorn 4,897]

5 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

And? 

I guess if one is watching them all on TV it does not matter. Just in the interest of fan bases. The stadiums will fill up with locals when prices go down.

[BurntOrange&White 39,618]

Just now, DanTheHorn said:

I guess if one is watching them all on TV it does not matter. Just in the interest of fan bases. The stadiums will fill up with locals when prices go down.

Just don't be poor, easy. You're starting to sound entitled like FancyBoots. 

[LonghornSean 3,942]

The quarters should be on campus and I think that will happen after these first two years of the 12 team format.

[Dnaguy 11,769]

22 hours 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.

 

22 hours 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.

 

The home games will be well attended and nuts.

The quarters will be better attended than the semis as the higher seed bye team will show out with the advanced knowledge of the game. The winning team of the opening round is only going to have 10 days to get tickets. That's tough. 

It seems to me that the Sugar and the Rose Bowl will always be Quarters as they have always been on 1/1. 

That leaves a rotating 4 bowls of Orange, Cotton, Fiesta, and Peach for quarters  and semis.

The semis and NCG are going to be sparse / sterile / corporate IMO.

Does rotating sites help or hurt attendance? I can probably argue both ways, but that's miniscule compared the travel burden you're putting on a fan base.

 

 

 

Edited January 4 by Dnaguy

[TrashMaster G 17,386]

8 hours ago, Ignatius said:

 

I’m talking about the bowl game organizers more than the sites themselves; their bullshit is why we only got 13K tickets this week. The title game against Alabama wasn’t the Rose Bowl, but it didn’t feel any different to me than the USC game did four years earlier (except, obviously, for the game outcome)….

I am a big traditionalist, but the way the bowls distribute tickets has always pissed me off. The fact that the participating schools, especially for the major bowls, get such a small allotment is just absurd. And the seats generally suck.  Meanwhile, thousands and thousands of people who have zero interest in the game are comped prime seats.

It's a racket and if it starts to die I won't shed a tear.

[thunderlounge 7,754]

1 hour ago, DanTheHorn said:

That is still 3 away travel games if semis are not made home games. Also, semis at home are a big reward for being a top 4 conference champion if you make past the NYG quarters. People can make a game during holiday dates. Also, they will make it to final game but would you go to semis after traveling to quarterfinals?

 

I'm not sure you grasp what "semi-final" means, as you are actually talking about the quarter-finals (Round 2), which are slated to be bowl games (4), along with the (2) semi-finals. R1 is on-campus, and the quarter-finals (R2) should also be. Hell, the semi's should be as well, so there's only 1 real travel headache. Works for the NFL, although the visitors still have to travel. Home crowd makes up for the attendance issues though.

Would be a pain in the ass though, as long as the bowls are tied to a specific location, as they don't seem to be going anywhere.

[field 216]

6 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

I am a big traditionalist, but the way the bowls distribute tickets has always pissed me off. The fact that the participating schools, especially for the major bowls, get such a small allotment is just absurd. And the seats generally suck.  Meanwhile, thousands and thousands of people who have zero interest in the game are comped prime seats.

It's a racket and if it starts to die I won't shed a tear.

Fun fact - if it was up to the bowls, they'd require the participating schools to contractually buy way more tickets than they do now.  As it is, the bowls enter into contracts with conferences - not individual schools - and the conferences are the ones who have limited the contractual requirement on ticket allotment at the request of their schools.  Most schools lose their ass on ticket allotments, which is why conferences pushed back on ticket allotment numbers and reduced them to 13,000 (from 17,500) during the last round of contract negotiations in 2014 for the New Years Six bowls.  

   

[LonghornBreeder 550]

2 hours ago, DanTheHorn said:

That is still 3 away travel games if semis are not made home games. Also, semis at home are a big reward for being a top 4 conference champion if you make past the NYG quarters. People can make a game during holiday dates. Also, they will make it to final game but would you go to semis after traveling to quarterfinals?

 

59 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

 

I'm not sure you grasp what "semi-final" means, as you are actually talking about the quarter-finals (Round 2), which are slated to be bowl games (4), along with the (2) semi-finals. R1 is on-campus, and the quarter-finals (R2) should also be. Hell, the semi's should be as well, so there's only 1 real travel headache. Works for the NFL, although the visitors still have to travel. Home crowd makes up for the attendance issues though.

Would be a pain in the ass though, as long as the bowls are tied to a specific location, as they don't seem to be going anywhere.

I think Dan has the right idea. He is suggesting that the Semis (round of 4) be played as 2 home games because they will be played the weekend after the NYD bowls (Quarter). It seems wacky to have the 4 rounds go home/away > neutral > home/away > neutral, but who's gonna convince the rose bowl and the rest of the mafia to play bowl games before Christmas?

[Ignatius 4,000]

1 hour ago, field said:

Fun fact - if it was up to the bowls, they'd require the participating schools to contractually buy way more tickets than they do now.  As it is, the bowls enter into contracts with conferences - not individual schools - and the conferences are the ones who have limited the contractual requirement on ticket allotment at the request of their schools.  Most schools lose their ass on ticket allotments, which is why conferences pushed back on ticket allotment numbers and reduced them to 13,000 (from 17,500) during the last round of contract negotiations in 2014 for the New Years Six bowls.  

   

True, but at that time 4 of the 6 weren’t part of the playoff rotation in any given season. Will be interesting to see if the SEC/B10 don’t push for a higher number whenever that gets renegotiated….

Edited January 4 by Ignatius

[Beau Vine 53,986]

All of it should be on campus, except the championship game, which should be at the Rose Bowl every season.

Fuck the bowls.

[immamac 42,516]

4 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

All of it should be on campus, except the championship game, which should be at the Rose Bowl every season.

Fuck the bowls.

I agree the national championship should be played in a stadium with 95k+ capacity every time. 

[DanTheHorn 4,897]

1 hour ago, thunderlounge said:

 

I'm not sure you grasp what "semi-final" means, as you are actually talking about the quarter-finals (Round 2), which are slated to be bowl games (4), along with the (2) semi-finals. R1 is on-campus, and the quarter-finals (R2) should also be. Hell, the semi's should be as well, so there's only 1 real travel headache. Works for the NFL, although the visitors still have to travel. Home crowd makes up for the attendance issues though.

Would be a pain in the ass though, as long as the bowls are tied to a specific location, as they don't seem to be going anywhere.

Round (1) is at home with four teams getting a bye week. Round (2) is either 31st and 1st which a good time for fans to travel because it is combined with the New Year celebration. Everyone knows no work gets done between Christmas and New Years. Then the semi-final is Round (3) which as best I can ascertain will happen on Wednesday and Thursday (Jan 8 & 9 2025) because of not wanting to compete against NFL games.  I don't care who you are those are crappy travel dates and that is why I think those should be home games. People will make the final (Round 4) regardless of when or where it happens. I thought just saying semis was enough for people to understand what games I was talking about and the crappy calendar in which they are slated to fall.

 

https://collegefootballplayoff.com/news/2023/5/2/24-25-dates.aspx

[DanTheHorn 4,897]

31 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

All of it should be on campus, except the championship game, which should be at the Rose Bowl every season.

Fuck the bowls.

 

26 minutes ago, immamac said:

I agree the national championship should be played in a stadium with 95k+ capacity every time. 

Yes NC should be in 95K+ stadium and no the quarters should be in the bowls because some of us like those trips and I still need my shot at the Orange Bowl since other than @Armybrat none of us have a had a chance to mark that one off the list.

[Beau Vine 53,986]

1 hour ago, DanTheHorn said:

Yes NC should be in 95K+ stadium and no the quarters should be in the bowls because some of us like those trips and I still need my shot at the Orange Bowl since other than @Armybrat none of us have a had a chance to mark that one off the list.

I could agree with this if the Orange Bowl was still played in the Orange Bowl Stadium, but this is not my idea of a destination stadium:

 

[DanTheHorn 4,897]

2 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

I could agree with this if the Orange Bowl was still played in the Orange Bowl Stadium, but this is not my idea of a destination stadium:

 

It is not about the stadium it is about the Cotton, Rose, Sugar and Orange bowls being the guys when I first started to be a college football fan and then the Fiesta joining them somewhere along the way. I have marked off 4 of the 5.

[tx 3 putt 76,314]

We found a pair of front-row seats near the 50-yard line at NRG Stadium reselling on SeatGeek for $98,428 each on Wednesday, which included an eye-watering $24,196 in fees alone. The grand total for this primo pair in Section 106, Row A came to $196,854.
 

 

While you pause to talk the purchase over with your accountant, with those tickets sitting out in your cart, SeatGeek will email you a coupon code for 15% off. But before you get your hopes up thinking you can possibly swing it with a sizable discount of $29,528, a quick check of the fine print on the SeatGeek discount promo will stipulate a maximum savings of $25. That'll bring the all-in price down to $196,829.44. And that's only if you're a first-time purchaser through the ticket vendor.

When we checked for the tickets again on Thursday morning, they were no longer listed, meaning either some football fan made the splurge of a lifetime or the seller got cold feet. But one section to the right, in Section 105, Row A, we found seats going for $57,447 eachwith fees included. The rub here is that you have to buy six seats, meaning you're looking at $344,678.22 out the door. (Here's hoping your friends don't mind going Dutch.) For perspective — because perspective is sorely needed when the price of anything tips into five- and six-figure territory — seats just a few feet back, in Row B, Section 106, are available for $7,845 each. That includes $1,934 in fees, but is all but theft by comparison.

[thunderlounge 7,754]

[TxEx84 375]

57 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

We found a pair of front-row seats near the 50-yard line at NRG Stadium reselling on SeatGeek for $98,428 each on Wednesday, which included an eye-watering $24,196 in fees alone. The grand total for this primo pair in Section 106, Row A came to $196,854.
 

 

While you pause to talk the purchase over with your accountant, with those tickets sitting out in your cart, SeatGeek will email you a coupon code for 15% off. But before you get your hopes up thinking you can possibly swing it with a sizable discount of $29,528, a quick check of the fine print on the SeatGeek discount promo will stipulate a maximum savings of $25. That'll bring the all-in price down to $196,829.44. And that's only if you're a first-time purchaser through the ticket vendor.

When we checked for the tickets again on Thursday morning, they were no longer listed, meaning either some football fan made the splurge of a lifetime or the seller got cold feet. But one section to the right, in Section 105, Row A, we found seats going for $57,447 eachwith fees included. The rub here is that you have to buy six seats, meaning you're looking at $344,678.22 out the door. (Here's hoping your friends don't mind going Dutch.) For perspective — because perspective is sorely needed when the price of anything tips into five- and six-figure territory — seats just a few feet back, in Row B, Section 106, are available for $7,845 each. That includes $1,934 in fees, but is all but theft by comparison.

Those section 105 seats are now going for $5k each.  A bargain, I tell ya!

Still doesn't look like the schools have released their seats.  If you look on Ticketmaster, almost no inventory in corner sections. Prices will drop significantly when those hit the market.

[Beau Vine 53,986]

24 minutes ago, TxEx84 said:

Those section 105 seats are now going for $5k each.  A bargain, I tell ya!

Still doesn't look like the schools have released their seats.  If you look on Ticketmaster, almost no inventory in corner sections. Prices will drop significantly when those hit the market.

Washington is releasing tix Friday.  

[Tex Long 4,346]

33 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Washington is releasing tix Friday.  

For a game 2,000+ miles away three days later? Smooth move.

Edited January 4 by Tex Long

[Beau Vine 53,986]

17 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

For a game 2,000+ miles away three days later? Smooth move.

Yeah, and we're relying on an 89-yo man to send us his electronically.  

Nothing could go wrong, right?

[Surly Bevo 24,695]

14 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Yeah, and we're relying on an 89-yo man to send us his electronically.  

Nothing could go wrong, right?

You're really going to enjoy that 4 pm early-bird dinner theater presentation of Death of a Salesman.

[utexas8 1,433]

For the CFP-RSVP it’s like a stock so the teams who have a higher chance of making the playoff are at a higher price point from what I’ve gathered.

In 2019 Clemson and Alabama started off at 200 I think. So who knows what Texas will be.


On another note how much will tickets be for the Michigan game. I found some for 600 each. Never been to the big house but from pictures it doesn’t look as big as it is. It looks like any seat would be fine. Not too high.

[UTexasFight 9,376]

13 hours ago, utexas8 said:

For the CFP-RSVP it’s like a stock so the teams who have a higher chance of making the playoff are at a higher price point from what I’ve gathered.

In 2019 Clemson and Alabama started off at 200 I think. So who knows what Texas will be.


On another note how much will tickets be for the Michigan game. I found some for 600 each. Never been to the big house but from pictures it doesn’t look as big as it is. It looks like any seat would be fine. Not too high.

It’s mostly underground .

It has about as many rows (96) as DKR just without an upper and lower deck split.

Rows 80s and 90s are going to be aways away

[troph 24,562]

Rose Bowl is similar.

[Tex48 840]

Anyone go to the CFP concerts tonight? My buddies and I went to see 2 Chainz and Jack Harlow. It was actually a good time but each artists would play and then there’d be a 35-40 min break.

[utexas8 1,433]

Ticket prices still high with fees cheapest around 1100. Safe to say if Texas was there tickets prices would be higher and wouldnt have dropped at all like I would’ve been hoping for.

My finances dodged a bullet, my heart did not.

[Stunns38 3,357]

My finances dodged a bullet, my heart did not.

Great name for a new country song.