MIAMI \u2014 Ticket prices for Monday night\u2019s College Football Playoff national championship game between Indiana and Miami have dropped only slightly from their peaks, with supply obviously low and demand obviously high.<\/p>\n
Ticketdata, which tracks resale pricing of tickets across major marketplaces, said the lowest get-in price for the game at Hard Rock Stadium was $3,652 at midday Sunday. That number \u2014 based on a two-ticket purchase, including fees \u2014 was down about 8% from where it was at midday Saturday.<\/p>\n
Many sites still showed some tickets topping $10,000 apiece in the best sections of the lower bowl of the stadium, and some parking passes \u2014 no game ticket included \u2014 were topping $1,000 online, though a few could be found in remote lots for as little as $100 or so.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the week, CFP executive director Rich Clark was asked about how ticket prices at Hard Rock Stadium for the game were topping the secondary-market costs for Taylor Swift shows at the same stadium during her recent world tour.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s more expensive than Taylor Swift? We have arrived,\u201d Clark said, smiling \u2014 and it should be noted that the CFP has nothing to do with setting the secondary market costs. \u201cThat\u2019s awesome. I will just say that speaks to the excitement of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miami went through its allotment with ease, as would be expected \u2014 Hard Rock is its home stadium. Season ticket partners for the Hurricanes were all sent emails in recent weeks asking them to stake their claims for tickets to each round of the CFP, and those who responded to those pitches had the best luck in getting their hands on the hottest ticket in college football.<\/p>\n
Indiana fans have traveled in droves to the Hoosiers\u2019 CFP games at the Rose Bowl and Peach Bowl, and it\u2019s clear that the Hoosiers have come to Miami as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know they\u2019ll travel well to this game,\u201d Indiana linebacker Isaiah Jones said. \u201cI think it\u2019s going to be a statement that it\u2019s in Miami, and I think we\u2019ll still see a very decent amount of Indiana Hoosiers fans.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hoosiers quarterback Fernando Mendoza, a Miami native, can attest to that.<\/p>\n
\u201cTickets are definitely a problem,\u201d the Heisman Trophy winner said, \u201cbecause there\u2019s so many family members that want to come to the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
No Lucas until second half<\/p>\n
Miami will be without defensive back Xavier Lucas for the first half of Monday\u2019s College Football Playoff national championship game against Indiana because he was flagged for targeting in the second half of the Fiesta Bowl semifinal earlier this month.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes tried, to no avail, to get the play revisited.<\/p>\n
So, on Sunday in the final news conference for both teams before the title matchup, Miami coach Mario Cristobal said he hopes the rule gets amended going forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe feel it was unjustly administered, and now it impacts the last game of the season,\u201d Cristobal said. \u201cWe do have the ability, again, as an officiating crew and the powers that be to revisit that to give every team due process and their best ability to compete in this game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lucas was ejected in the fourth quarter of the Fiesta Bowl win over Mississippi. Miami was upset that a targeting call earlier in the game against Ole Miss was overturned after review, saying it felt the plays were extremely similar.<\/p>\n
Players flagged for targeting in the first half of a game have to simply sit out the remainder of that contest. Those flagged in the second half are out for the remainder of that game and must sit the first half of the ensuing game as well.<\/p>\n
National TV taking notice<\/p>\n
The Miami-Indiana game made it to NBC\u2019s \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d and CBS\u2019 \u201cSunday Morning\u201d this weekend.<\/p>\n
SNL took a comedic look at Miami alum Michael Irvin\u2019s impassioned antics on the Hurricanes sideline, with Kam Patterson portraying Irvin for a segment on \u201cWeekend Update.\u201d The bit showed a photo of Irvin screaming toward Miami coach Mario Cristobal; Patterson, as Irvin, said \u201chere\u2019s me whispering.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fortunately for Cristobal, the bit didn\u2019t include Irvin\u2019s now-infamous smooch of the Miami coach\u2019s cheek after one of the CFP wins.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d rather not get kissed by Michael Irvin. \u2026 That whole kiss thing, I\u2019m never going to live that down,\u201d Cristobal said, adding that he considers Irvin a brother and has been thrilled to have him on the sideline.<\/p>\n
On \u201cSunday Morning,\u201d host Jane Pauley \u2014 a proud Indiana alum \u2014 discussed the school\u2019s rise from perennial football doormat status to becoming a juggernaut, even drawing parallels to the movie \u201cHoosiers\u201d and that championship tale. She lauded an \u201cunexcitable\u201d coach in Curt Cignetti, along with \u201cdisciplined training and a lot of money to back it up\u201d as part of the reasons why Indiana got to the title game.<\/p>\n
And, of course, she pointed out Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza \u2014 a Miami native \u2014 and his rise to Indiana royalty.<\/p>\n
\u201cA Florida boy,\u201d Pauley said. \u201cA Hoosier now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 Ticket prices for Monday night\u2019s College Football Playoff national championship game between Indiana and Miami have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[339,7,49,48,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-687139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-sports","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115918008708809355","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}