MIAMI — Ticket prices for Monday night’s College Football Playoff national championship game between the top-ranked, top-seeded Indiana Hoosiers (15-0) and the No. 10 Miami Hurricanes (13-2) have dropped only slightly from their peak, with supply obviously low and demand obviously high.
Ticketdata, which tracks resale pricing of tickets across major marketplaces, said the lowest get-in price for the game at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens was $3,652 at midday Sunday. That number — based on a two-ticket purchase, including fees — was down about 8% from where it was at midday Saturday.
Many sites still showed some tickets topping $10,000 apiece in the best sections of the lower bowl of the stadium where the Hurricanes and the NFL’s Miami Dolphins play their home games. Some parking passes — no game ticket included — were topping $1,000 online, though a few could be found in remote lots for as little as $100 or so.
Last week, CFP executive director Rich Clark was asked about how ticket prices at Hard Rock Stadium for the game were topping the secondary market costs for pop star Taylor Swift shows at the same stadium during her recent world tour.
“It’s more expensive than Taylor Swift? We have arrived,” Clark said, smiling — and it should be noted that the CFP has nothing to do with setting the secondary market costs. “That’s awesome. I will just say that speaks to the excitement of the game.”