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Title: Cotton Bowl Tickets: Sellers outnumbering buyers 10-1 . . .
Post by: sonofdaxjones on December 26, 2006, 04:52:32 PM
neither school has sold their allotment, 19th lowest priced 3rd party bowl ticket prices:

Cotton Bowl tickets are becoming a bargain<
^By ERIC OLSON=
^AP Sports Writer=
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ Tickets for the Cotton Bowl are so cheap that
a family of four could see the New Year's Day game between Nebraska
and Auburn in Dallas for less than $100.
The lowest price found Tuesday, on StubHub.com, was $12 for a
ticket with a face value of $90.
San Francisco-based StubHub is among the online marketplaces
that bring together ticket buyers and sellers. Company spokesman
Sean Pate said the so-called ``secondary market'' gives a true
indication of how hot _ or cold _ a ticket is.
Typically, fans go to the secondary market for hard-to-get
tickets _ and often pay significantly more than face value.
Buyers are getting the better end of the deal with the Cotton
Bowl.
TicketsNow.com had $15 tickets, and several other online brokers
had plenty listed for $20. Prime seats still go for several hundred
dollars, but what surprises Pate is that it would cost fans very
little to get a seat.
``Those tickets are dropping to unforeseen territory for a bowl
game of that magnitude,'' Pate said.
Neither Nebraska nor Auburn had sold out its allotment of 12,500
tickets, all priced at $90. All but about 3,500 of the 68,252
Cotton Bowl stadium seats have a face value of $90.
Omaha-based Ticket Express is getting 10 calls from people
trying to sell Cotton Bowl tickets for every one trying to buy,
president Chad Carr said.
Carr, like others in the travel and ticket business, say fans
aren't enamored with Dallas as a destination. Brokers say Nebraska
fans are let down after the Huskers lost to Oklahoma in the Big 12
championship game. Same goes for Auburn fans, who saw their Tigers'
national championship hopes end with a November loss to Georgia.
The 10:38 a.m. kickoff time also is difficult to overcome, Carr
said, as is the unpredictable January weather in Dallas.
At StubHub, the average price for a Cotton Bowl ticket is $90,
with $406 the highest paid so far. Pate said he expects the average
to fall as the game nears.
The average price is 19th among the 32 bowls and ranks behind
games such as the Texas Bowl ($100), Music City Bowl ($116),
Emerald Bowl ($125) and Alamo Bowl ($138).
The Bowl Championship Series title game, Pate said, is fetching
an average of $1,400.
Jason Randall, CEO of Austin-based Coast to Coast Tickets, said
he's not caught off-guard by the low Cotton Bowl ticket prices
because the stadium is large and the matchup pits teams from
distant places.
``When there's not a championship on the line, it makes it a lot
harder to justify the travel expense,'' Randall said. ``If (the
University of Texas) were playing in the Cotton Bowl against an
interesting opponent, maybe that would shake things up. As it is,
this game isn't that big a deal.''




Title: Re: Cotton Bowl Tickets: Sellers outnumbering buyers 10-1 . . .
Post by: fatty fat fat on December 26, 2006, 05:01:00 PM
thanks tmcats.
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl Tickets: Sellers outnumbering buyers 10-1 . . .
Post by: mjrod on December 26, 2006, 05:22:29 PM
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Jason Randall, CEO of Austin-based Coast to Coast Tickets, said he's not caught off-guard by the low Cotton Bowl ticket prices because the stadium is large and the matchup pits teams from distant places.

"When there's not a championship on the line, it makes it a lot harder to justify the travel expense," Randall said. "If (the University of Texas) were playing in the Cotton Bowl against an interesting opponent, maybe that would shake things up. As it is, this game isn't that big a deal."

Ya think?
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl Tickets: Sellers outnumbering buyers 10-1 . . .
Post by: ksuno1stunner on December 26, 2006, 06:11:15 PM
best fans in america
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl Tickets: Sellers outnumbering buyers 10-1 . . .
Post by: ednksu on December 26, 2006, 07:46:47 PM
I am soooo glad we didnt go there.....i mean we always had a crappy time traveling to that bowl game.
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl Tickets: Sellers outnumbering buyers 10-1 . . .
Post by: sonofdaxjones on December 26, 2006, 10:21:10 PM
thanks tmcats.

 :ustupid:
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl Tickets: Sellers outnumbering buyers 10-1 . . .
Post by: catinthehat on December 27, 2006, 10:18:30 PM
more people will be at that game than watching your game on tv.
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl Tickets: Sellers outnumbering buyers 10-1 . . .
Post by: mjrod on December 27, 2006, 10:29:48 PM
more people will be at that game than watching your game on tv.

LOL!!!

There is a circus somewhere that is missing their performer.
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl Tickets: Sellers outnumbering buyers 10-1 . . .
Post by: ksuno1stunner on December 28, 2006, 02:28:14 AM
more people will be at that game than watching your game on tv.

lol @ "Cotton Bowl"

seriously, that is sad.  is texas too far away?  it isn't for us.  we sold out like a month ago.
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl Tickets: Sellers outnumbering buyers 10-1 . . .
Post by: ksuno1stunner on December 28, 2006, 02:38:09 PM
now they are saying at least 30,000 ksu fans will be there.  pretty good for the texas bowl.
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl Tickets: Sellers outnumbering buyers 10-1 . . .
Post by: greasd up deaf guy on December 28, 2006, 04:28:23 PM
I'd love to return to the cotton bowl sometime. That said, that stadium is a piece of crap.
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl Tickets: Sellers outnumbering buyers 10-1 . . .
Post by: KSUcks2321 on December 28, 2006, 06:29:23 PM
I think that all the NU fans going to the Big 12 title game made them not want to go to Dallas for the cotton bowl. It was a mess getting in and out of the area and the game sucked. I blame that for the lack of interest in going. Also its an early kickoff on January 1st which doesn't help. At least the game is not on the NFL Network!
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl Tickets: Sellers outnumbering buyers 10-1 . . .
Post by: NorthChamps on December 28, 2006, 07:43:19 PM
now they are saying at least 30,000 ksu fans will be there.  pretty good for the texas bowl.

The question is how long will all those morons stay there with a blowout in progress?

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl Tickets: Sellers outnumbering buyers 10-1 . . .
Post by: cyclist on December 28, 2006, 07:49:55 PM
now they are saying at least 30,000 ksu fans will be there.  pretty good for the texas bowl.

The question is how long will all those morons stay there with a blowout in progress?

 :thumbsup:

:eek: :rolleyes: :confused: :ustupid:

Kind of like KSU @ NU in 2003, with the "Greatest fans" leaving ?
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl Tickets: Sellers outnumbering buyers 10-1 . . .
Post by: NorthChamps on December 28, 2006, 08:24:26 PM
now they are saying at least 30,000 ksu fans will be there.  pretty good for the texas bowl.

The question is how long will all those morons stay there with a blowout in progress?

 :thumbsup:

:eek: :rolleyes: :confused: :ustupid:

Kind of like KSU @ NU in 2003, with the "Greatest fans" leaving ?

Uh, yeah...kind of :jerkoff:
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl Tickets: Sellers outnumbering buyers 10-1 . . .
Post by: cyclist on December 28, 2006, 08:41:45 PM
now they are saying at least 30,000 ksu fans will be there.  pretty good for the texas bowl.

The question is how long will all those morons stay there with a blowout in progress?

 :thumbsup:

:eek: :rolleyes: :confused: :ustupid:

Kind of like KSU @ NU in 2003, with the "Greatest fans" leaving ?

Uh, yeah...kind of :jerkoff:

North, have a  :beerchug: on me, then...   ;)