An interesting analysis of each team's ticket sales and where these sales take place.

It maps out the counties where sold.



https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/col...ket-sales/



I checked Notre Dame, and this is what it said:

"Among Vivid Seats’ buyers, the nationwide fan base that Notre Dame loves to promote holds up. The Fighting Irish are the most popular ticket in 171 of these counties, by far the most in college football, leading Georgia’s 142. After Notre Dame, the next four teams are all large state schools that, for the most part (apologies to Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt), have a stronghold on the state’s football fans: Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri and Nebraska.

Notre Dame also leads the country with at least some ticket buyers in 1,614 different counties, from Penobscot County in Maine to the Kenai Peninsula Borough in Alaska. The college football bluebloods all have a wide presence here: Notre Dame is followed by Alabama, Tennessee, Michigan and Ohio State.

A few major areas with no college football power are split between fan bases. Notre Dame sells the most tickets on Vivid Seats in New York County (16 percent), followed by Michigan (7.9 percent) and Penn State (5.5). Northwestern, which advertises itself as “Chicago’s Big Ten Team” but often welcomes hordes of opposing fans into Ryan Field, is the top seller in Illinois’s Cook County, followed by Notre Dame and Michigan. USC outdraws UCLA in Los Angeles County, 30.4 percent to 19.6 percent.

The dominant local fan bases are also clear: West Virginia leads in every county in its state, and Wisconsin is the top seller in every Wisconsin county in which anyone bought a Vivid Seats ticket."

Cook County
1 Northwestern
2 Notre Dame
3 Michigan

Illinois not #3. Wow.

In the Tampa Bay area, USF trails Florida 19% to 17% and 19% to 14% in the two big counties that make it up.

FSU is right on our heels.

It's a tough problem.

"Rice Owls:
Errr ... your team is not that big a deal, ya know? Its tickets make up no more than 3.9 percent of any county sales."

You know what's funny... Pitt County, home of Greenville and ECU... ECU 33%, NC State 12%, Alabama 8%...

When I first saw the title I thought "wow, Notre Dame only sold 538 tickets to the Michigan game"?

It's the tickets bought through a particular third party vendor over actual overall ticket purchases. I imagine no one buys Rice tickets on Vivid Seats, for instance, because they have a gigantic stadium relative to their fanbase, so why buy resale when you can just walk up to the Rice Bowl? I also doubt more people in Dekalb County, Illinois are buying Iowa Hawkeyes tickets than NIU tickets by a 5-1 margin, but that's what that data says. Again, you don't have to go resale for NIU but I can tell you for a fact the NIU fanbase in Dekalb-Sycamore is FAR bigger than the Iowa fanbase.

Does using a resale site favor the most popular schools over schools that always have tickets available if you showed up right before the game?

It doesn't give the sample size within each county, which in some cases is small. Alabama had 79.5 percent in Allegany County, NY, where people would need to fly to Alabama. The county has a population between 40,000 and 50,000.

Showing what I've said elsewhere about college sports not being popular in the New York City area, Notre Dame is Number 1 in all five boroughs, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, and Rockland. Army is Number 1 in Putnam and Dutchess. I live in Nassau, and the Top 3 are Notre Dame, Penn State, and Ohio State.

(10-28-2019 07:02 AM)EvanJ Wrote:  Does using a resale site favor the most popular schools over schools that always have tickets available if you showed up right before the game?

It doesn't give the sample size within each county, which in some cases is small. Alabama had 79.5 percent in Allegany County, NY, where people would need to fly to Alabama. The county has a population between 40,000 and 50,000.

Showing what I've said elsewhere about college sports not being popular in the New York City area, Notre Dame is Number 1 in all five boroughs, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, and Rockland. Army is Number 1 in Putnam and Dutchess. I live in Nassau, and the Top 3 are Notre Dame, Penn State, and Ohio State.

Ole Miss was #1 for a county in Wyoming. Probably something like only 14 people in that county bought CFB tickets through VividSeats, but a family of 5 whose parents are alums bought a game at Ole Miss.

(10-25-2019 10:00 AM)TerryD Wrote:  An interesting analysis of each team's ticket sales and where these sales take place.

It maps out the counties where sold.



https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/col...ket-sales/



I checked Notre Dame, and this is what it said:

"Among Vivid Seats’ buyers, the nationwide fan base that Notre Dame loves to promote holds up. The Fighting Irish are the most popular ticket in 171 of these counties, by far the most in college football, leading Georgia’s 142. After Notre Dame, the next four teams are all large state schools that, for the most part (apologies to Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt), have a stronghold on the state’s football fans: Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri and Nebraska.

Notre Dame also leads the country with at least some ticket buyers in 1,614 different counties, from Penobscot County in Maine to the Kenai Peninsula Borough in Alaska. The college football bluebloods all have a wide presence here: Notre Dame is followed by Alabama, Tennessee, Michigan and Ohio State.

A few major areas with no college football power are split between fan bases. Notre Dame sells the most tickets on Vivid Seats in New York County (16 percent), followed by Michigan (7.9 percent) and Penn State (5.5). Northwestern, which advertises itself as “Chicago’s Big Ten Team” but often welcomes hordes of opposing fans into Ryan Field, is the top seller in Illinois’s Cook County, followed by Notre Dame and Michigan. USC outdraws UCLA in Los Angeles County, 30.4 percent to 19.6 percent.

The dominant local fan bases are also clear: West Virginia leads in every county in its state, and Wisconsin is the top seller in every Wisconsin county in which anyone bought a Vivid Seats ticket."

Something for folks to do next off-season: find a way to combine the map above with this one I am linking to below:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014...14,-75.384

(10-26-2019 03:00 PM)Mav Wrote:  It's the tickets bought through a particular third party vendor over actual overall ticket purchases. I imagine no one buys Rice tickets on Vivid Seats, for instance, because they have a gigantic stadium relative to their fanbase, so why buy resale when you can just walk up to the Rice Bowl? I also doubt more people in Dekalb County, Illinois are buying Iowa Hawkeyes tickets than NIU tickets by a 5-1 margin, but that's what that data says. Again, you don't have to go resale for NIU but I can tell you for a fact the NIU fanbase in Dekalb-Sycamore is FAR bigger than the Iowa fanbase.

Exactly. In Hamilton County/Cincinnati it is OSU #1. These are people who are not season ticket holders and probably go to 1 OSU game a year. UC is #2. UC fans are either season ticket holders and others just buy tickets from UC's website. ND is #3.