Key Highlights
- At least. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementTicket trackers say this year's College Football Playoff National Championship between IU and the University of Miami Hurricanes is on track to be the most expensive title game in history, thanks to a combination of short ticket supplies, a team playing literally in their backyard and large fanbases deprived of success at this level in recent history.
- If IU fans plan to buy on resale sites, they should be prepared to shell out thousands of dollars. For the Indiana University Hoosiers, victory Monday would mark the program's first-ever national championship win to cap off a historic, undefeated season in which their star quarterback won the coveted Heisman Trophy.
- A win for Miami would cement the Canes as top dogs in college football once again, ending a 24-year title drought in a once-in-a-blue-moon chance to play for the championship in their home stadium in Miami. IU makes history: Indiana is college football's greatest story, one we will never see again"I would say this is a very similar market to a Super Bowl," said Kyle Zorn, director of content at TickPick, an online ticket marketplace launched in 2011. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAnd Indiana fans have proven they are willing to travel, with a sea of crimson taking over Atlanta's Peach Bowl on Jan.
- 9, overshadowing any Oregon green in the stadium. The cheapest tickets to the championship currently cost at least $3,500.
- Better seats will cost fans at least $1,000 more. As of 4 p. m.
