Ohio State, Notre Dame Championship Resale Tickets Up 37% From Last Year at SeatGeek

On January 17, 2025By Littum

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Resale tickets for Monday’s College Football Playoffs Championship game between Ohio State and Notre Dame are proving to be a hot commodity, with most third-party sites listing entry prices around $1,800 and data from SeatGeek showing that this year’s tickets are currently higher than tickets for recent championships.

Running Back Aneyas Williams #20 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish runs with the ball under Penn … (+) State Nittany Lions versus Notre Dame Fighting Irish College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Orange Bowl on January 9, 2025 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fl.

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Key facts

Data provided to Forbes by ticket resale platform SeatGeek showed the average resale ticket price, with fees, to attend Monday’s game was $3,327, marking a 37% increase from the 2024 championship game between Michigan and Washington.

Ohio State and Notre Dame meet at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta at 7:30 PM EST on Monday.

While average resale ticket prices are likely to change before Monday, the trend as of Thursday this year was higher than the last three championship games, with an average resale ticket on SeatGeek costing $2,424 in 2024, $1,549 in 2023 and $1,226 in 2022.

The entry price on SeatGeek as of Thursday was $1,817 with fees, equivalent to the $1,809 get-in price of StubHub and $1,789 get-in price at Game Time.

SeatGeek’s director of growth marketing Chris Leyden told Forbes that this season’s game is “shaping up to be the most coveted in SeatGeek’s history,” likely because “two of the most passionate and dedicated fan bases in college football … are showing up in full force , stimulates demand.”

StubHub told Forbes on Wednesday that sales for Monday’s game were 85% higher than at the same time last year and had already surpassed the final sales of all championship games on the platform from 2019 to 2023.

To be expected, the average price of more than $3,000 to attend the championship on SeatGeek is far higher than both teams’ season-long average ticket price: The average resale ticket price to attend a Notre Dame road game was $281, and the same for Ohio The state was $304.

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Which states buy the most tickets on Seatgeek?

Data showed the top five states with the highest percentage of fans purchasing resale tickets were:

Ohio, accounting for 17% of sales
Texas, accounting for 9% of sales
Florida, accounting for 7% of sales
Georgia, which accounts for 6% of sales
Illinois, accounting for 6% of sales

Contra

SeatGeek stated that prices scale down after the teams are set, and as the event approaches, notice that ticket prices may drop during the week.

big number

$14,000. That’s about how much, including fees, one person paid to sit in the front row on the 50-yard line for Monday’s game. It was the top-selling ticket for the event on SeatGeek as of Thursday.

What is the spread in Monday’s game?

FanDuel Sportsbook shows Ohio State as an 8.5-point favorite over Notre Dame as of Thursday afternoon, just as it does SportsLine. Both betting platforms had an over/under of 46.5 points.

Key background

Ohio State finished the regular season with a 7-2 conference record and beat Tennessee, Oregon and Texas to reach this year’s championship. Notre Dame was 11-1 heading into the tournament and beat Indiana, Georgia and Penn State in the postseason. Ohio State has not won the championship since 2014, while the last time Notre Dame took the title was 1988.