Question about tickets from a Georgia fan...

[jtdawg]

We will be traveling to Notre Dame for our second game next year. I am sure that UGA won't get very many tickets, and those will all go to big money donors. With that being said, what is the best way to get tickets to a Notre Dame game? And how much should we expect to pay?

 

[twalsh]

We will be traveling to Notre Dame for our second game next year. I am sure that UGA won't get very many tickets, and those will all go to big money donors. With that being said, what is the best way to get tickets to a Notre Dame game? And how much should we expect to pay?

Atlantan here. Based on what people here are saying, I suspect that there will be 20,000 to 25,000 UGA fans making the trek to South Bend. In fact, I'm not sure I know a male UGA fan who is not planning on going, and most of them already have hotel rooms. We will give UGA the standard 5,000 or 6,000 tickets, and as you noted, these will go to high dollar donors only. So that leaves a whole lot of people looking for tickets, never mind the non-UGA fans that will be looking for them. While tickets are usually pretty easy to come up with on game day on campus, this game might be an exception, like Nebraska was about 15 years ago. The demand may be way in excess of the supply. In the Nebraska case the prices were bid up into the silly range, with Nebraska people paying as much as $1,500 to $2,000 per pair. At that price, the ND people will be sellers in a big way.

 

[NDSMC78]

I agree that UGA tickets next year will be one of most expensive for a long time. I don't know about $1500-$2000 a pair, but I could easily see $500 each. Although 2000 Nebraska was crazy, Oklahoma tickets in 2013 and Texas tickets last year were not that tough to come by. The one thing that might keep cost down a little is if ND finishes 6-6 or 7-5 this year.

 

[twalsh]

I agree that UGA tickets next year will be one of most expensive for a long time. I don't know about $1500-$2000 a pair, but I could easily see $500 each. Although 2000 Nebraska was crazy, Oklahoma tickets in 2013 and Texas tickets last year were not that tough to come by. The one thing that might keep cost down a little is if ND finishes 6-6 or 7-5 this year.

Oklahoma and Texas had both been to South Bend before, and in the last 20 years or less. UGA has never been to ND, ever. The curiosity factor down here is off the charts, along with the idea of a Chicago visit. Based on the prelim schedule it looks like the Cubs are home on that Sunday, and a lot of people are planning on that game too.

 

[Toby Smart]

There will be plenty of ND ticket holders who would go for the bucks and turn the stadium over to the Georgia fan base and not lose any sleep over it.

 

[TXNDFan88]

I have gone the route of hoping my daughter gets in to ND next year, and then gets a student ticket. Then she is willing to sell her student ticket to me!

 

[NDSMC78]

Oklahoma and Texas had both been to South Bend before, and in the last 20 years or less. UGA has never been to ND, ever. The curiosity factor down here is off the charts, along with the idea of a Chicago visit. Based on the prelim schedule it looks like the Cubs are home on that Sunday, and a lot of people are planning on that game too.

You may be right. The more demand there is, the more ND fans will sell their tickets.

 

[jtdawg]

Are Notre Dame student tickets hard copy, paper tickets, that can be sold to non-students. Or are they like most SEC student tickets now, on the student ID, and have to be used by that student?

 

[Toby Smart]

Student tickets are on an app that the students have on their phone. No, the tickets cannot be sold. Ushers know what tickets are legit and what tickets are copies just by looking at the phone. And yes, a student ID is required to enter and sit in that particular section.