College Football Season Ticket Prices
by Brian Favat on Jun 17, 2010 9:39 PM EDT
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PrintIf there's one thing we learned from the great conference shuffle of 2010, it's that in college football, it's all about the benjamins, baby. Rivals took a look at college football season ticket prices for all 120 programs, highlighting just how expensive it can be to attend a game of your favorite college football team.
A Rivals.com survey of season-ticket prices at each of the 120 FBS programs shows that ... Ohio State, Notre Dame, Wisconsin and Michigan ... charge the most for season tickets. With required donations or seat licenses, the most inexpensive season ticket at those schools costs more than $900.
Big-time college football, apparently a recession-proof enterprise, remains a textbook example of supply and demand. For some programs, the demand for season tickets is so great and the supply so limited (even in 100,000-plus stadiums) that successful programs can require thousands of dollars in donations just for the chance to purchase season tickets. The most expensive ticket is at Ohio State, which costs $2,107, including a donation for the right to buy season tickets.
But just a few hours west, Illinois - Ohio State's Big Ten rival - offers season tickets for as little as $77. And USF's $75 end zone package is the least-expensive season ticket offered by a team in a Big Six conference.
The cheapest season tickets overall are offered by Kent State and Western Kentucky, at $30.
BC's ticket prices come in on the cheaper side of the ACC. Here's Rivals complete list of the cheapest season ticket plans (which include a minimum donation and the cost of the season tickets). Here's the list of the 12 ACC programs and how they compare:
- Virginia Tech - $436
- Clemson - $309
- N.C. State - $305
- North Carolina - $270
- Georgia Tech - $260
- Florida State - $231
- Duke - $200
- Boston College - $175
- Maryland - $135
- Virginia - $120 (for access to grass hill, no seats)
- Miami - $119
- Wake Forest - $99
Virginia Tech leads the way with a minimum cost of $436, including a $100 minimum donation. Wake Forest offers the cheapest season tickets in the conference at a price of $99 (and no minimum donation). Wake also has one of the ten least expensive season ticket packages for a program in a BCS conference. As an aside, $200 for Duke season tickets? No wonder Blue Devil fans are content to wait until basketball season rolls around.
Regarding our non-conference opponents this year, BC will be playing three schools on very different ends of the season ticket price spectrum. Notre Dame has the second most expensive season ticket package in the country ($1,250 minimum donation, $490 season tickets, $1,740 total), behind only Ohio State. In contrast, Syracuse's $100 season tickets were on the lower end of the spectrum while Kent State's $30 season ticket package was the lowest price in the country.
These season ticket prices don't reflect differences in number of home games so the actual figures aren't an exact science. Still, I think it's interesting to see where BC stacks up against the rest of the conference. Thoughts?
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Seat donations
A few years ago, BC wanted $1,000 donation per seat to get good tickets on lower deck. Plus $350 for the tickets. We are not far from ND cost wise
But what a joke when u compare what you get at ND vs the horrible Alumni Stad experience.
bC still making crazy donation demands???
FSU
FYI, Rivals has a wrong number for FSU. Season tickets are $321 for the Noles.
"Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand." - Wes Westrum, Mets Manager
FSU
So the lowest season ticket package is $231 plus a $100 minimum donation?
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No
Okay let me clarify, because I’ve been corrected.
There is a package for $231, but that is deceiving since it’s in the “Family Zone” which is two small sections at the top of the South End Zone.
Standard season tickets are $321. Priority III (basically the corners) tickets do not require a Booster donation to renew next year. In years past, it did in order to guarantee your seats. Mediocre seasons affected renewals over the past few years. Higher levels do require a minimum donation.
"Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand." - Wes Westrum, Mets Manager
If there is a package for $231, the Rivals numbers would be correct then, no? These are the cheapest available season tickets.
The Virginia $120 figure is for seating on the grass hill (no seats), which is the lowest available package.
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by Brian Favat on Jun 18, 2010 10:04 AM EDT up reply actions
They actually missed our cheapest
We have a $180 dollar season ticket. Also, for those that are bored, check out this site for perspectives from every seat in the house of everyone’s house. My seats are the 260 bucks seats.
I write stuff From the Rumble Seat.
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