That doesn’t mean Ohio State is a lock to have the most fans at the game. Jan 17, 2025, 12:04 PM ET Open Extended Reactions “We definitely expected demand to be up,” StubHub spokesperson Joseph Bocanegra said Thursday. “But I definitely don’t think we were expecting demand to be as big as it has been.”Notre […]
“We definitely expected demand to be up,” StubHub spokesperson Joseph Bocanegra said Thursday. “But I definitely don’t think we were expecting demand to be as big as it has been.”Notre Dame’s national fan base makes it difficult to predict the fan turnout based on sales by states. Vivid Seats predicts Notre Dame fans will make up 55% of the crowd on Monday night as the Irish look for their first national title since 1988.
“It’s on track to be our best-selling CFP national championship game in StubHub history,” Bocanegra said. “It’s actually already surpassed the final sales of every national championship game on StubHub.”Associated PressATLANTA — It would have been reasonable to worry that the prolonged 12-team College Football Playoff would have exhausted fans’ spending money before the final costs of reaching the championship game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.Bocanegra said the average ticket price for the game on his site is ,500, compared with an average of ,800 for last year’s matchup between Michigan and Washington in Houston.Brett Daniels, senior director of communications for the CFP, said each school exhausted its allotment of 20,000 tickets as the game is designed to produce a “neutral site feeling.”Instead, the first 12-team playoff has only fed ticket prices for the sellout.