The new CFP bowls will mostly reduce their ticket allotment requirements to schools. Instead of 17,500 each, it will be only 12,500 each for the Peach, Cotton, or Fiesta and the two semifinal games. The NCG however will require a 20,000 ticket guarantee from each school. The Rose, Sugar, and Orange will still set their own limits when not a semifinal game.

My thoughts, how are they going to sell 20,000 tickets for a game in about a week?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nca...s/4331253/

Well that is what I was waiting for regarding the bowl ticket allotment in the new playoff era.

Can't they just pre-sell the tickets? You can buy playoff tickets in MLB for teams that don't make the playoffs. Sell them after the end of the regular season and refund it if the teams get eliminated

(01-05-2014 09:19 PM)Jericho Wrote:  Can't they just pre-sell the tickets? You can buy playoff tickets in MLB for teams that don't make the playoffs. Sell them after the end of the regular season and refund it if the teams get eliminated

Bingo! Auburn and Alabama sold SEC championship tickets before the game was even played. The losing team was refunded. They'll do the same prior to the semi finals and sell the 20,000 allotment to all four teams and then refund to the two losers. In the meantime they (both the host and the school) will earn short term interest on the entire doubled balance.

I just find it a bit odd that they'd require more tickets for a game that would have less time to prepare. Maybe the NCG won't be the corporate event the Super Bowl is.

(01-05-2014 09:29 PM)CommuterBob Wrote:  I just find it a bit odd that they'd require more tickets for a game that would have less time to prepare. Maybe the NCG won't be the corporate event the Super Bowl is.

I sure hope you're right, but I must confess I have sincere doubts that it can keep from becoming a corporate monstrosity. The National Championship tickets here were $680 for a pair. This year my brother in law and my nephew are using ours. That was a faculty and staff price too. At Auburn immediate family which includes brothers, nephews, grandchildren, etc. are free to use their family's tickets. I know people here who are paying up to $1700 for a regular ticket. I've heard the box seat area tickets are going for $33,000 for a pair. If that's the case it is already well on its way to too much corporate influence. Good thread Bob. The news means that they are at least confronting what we've all been seeing.

(01-05-2014 09:35 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-05-2014 09:29 PM)CommuterBob Wrote:  I just find it a bit odd that they'd require more tickets for a game that would have less time to prepare. Maybe the NCG won't be the corporate event the Super Bowl is.

I sure hope you're right, but I must confess I have sincere doubts that it can keep from becoming a corporate monstrosity. The National Championship tickets here were $680 for a pair. This year my brother in law and my nephew are using ours. That was a faculty and staff price too. At Auburn immediate family which includes brothers, nephews, grandchildren, etc. are free to use their family's tickets. I know people here who are paying up to $1700 for a regular ticket. I've heard the box seat area tickets are going for $33,000 for a pair. If that's the case it is already well on its way to too much corporate influence. Good thread Bob. The news means that they are at least confronting what we've all been seeing.

Crazy for what something that isn't even professional.