ATLANTA – Maybe Ohio State and Notre Dame fans skipped the early-round College Football Playoff games to save for this moment. Judging by the offers on the secondary market in the hours before kickoff, hopefully they had been saving for quite some time before this game.
While secondary ticket prices for some CFP games dropped below $20 in the hours before kickoff, prices for the national championship remained much higher. Three hours before kickoff, the door price for Ohio State-Notre Dame tickets hovered around $4,000, with Stubhub recording a low price of $3,934 and Ticketmaster at $4,401, both for tickets at the upper Mercedes. -Benz Stadium.
The huge discrepancy between ticket prices for the semifinals and the championship game, all of which are played in NFL stadiums, will likely contribute to an ongoing push to move more playoff games to campuses. All four on-campus games in the first round – in Columbus, State College, Austin and South Bend – were enthusiastic sellouts.
At the same time, it’s difficult to get fans to pay for tickets and travel to four different locations over the course of a month. Notre Dame and Ohio State have each traveled more than 4,000 miles in air travel from home to NFL stadiums across the country.