Report: 42% of Tennessee-Ohio State tickets sold on SeatGeek have gone to Tennessee residents
A leaked presale code last week allowed Tennessee fans to get a jump on buying tickets for the College Football Playoff First Round game Saturday night at Ohio State.
The sales haven’t slowed down on the secondary market.
According to Awful Announcing’s Ben Koo, 42% of resold tickets on SeatGeek have gone to Tennessee residents.
Updates on the botched OSU playoff ticket sale…
— Ben Koo (@bkoo) December 16, 2024
1- Per @SeatGeek "42% of tickets resold on the platform have gone to Tennessee residents"
2- Professional resellers holding a huge amount of tickets. Prices quickly dropping (get in price now under $200) pic.twitter.com/PG1bxWpJz5
No. 9 Tennessee (10-2) and No. 8 Ohio State (10-2) are scheduled for an 8 p.m. Eastern Time start Saturday night at Ohio Stadium in Columbus. The winner will advance to face No. 1 Oregon in the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day.
It’s the first appearance for the Vols in the College Football Playoff and the first time Tennessee has played at Ohio State.
The Vols were given an allotment of 3,500 tickets, as mandated by the College Football Playoff. Ohio Stadium has a capacity of 102,780.
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Koo estimated that Tennessee fans could fill 18-22% of the Ohio Stadium crowd and that fans of “usual visiting teams” take up 5-12% of the stadium.
Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork went on Columbus radio last week and asked Buckeye fans not to resale their tickets to Tennessee fans.
“Don’t sell your tickets,” Bjork said during an appearance on The Fan 97.1-FM WBNS. “Tennessee fans, they’re rabid fans. They are going to invade the Shoe. Let’s make sure we don’t have as much orange in there as people think.”
The get-in price as of Tuesday morning was as low as $142 on StubHub. The Ticketmaster presale code ‘OSUFB’ leaked online last week, when tickets were put on sale for Ohio State fans. The leak ended with Tennessee fans and ticket resellers getting a head start on the ticket market.
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Head coach Josh Heupel said Monday he wasn’t surprised to hear of so many Tennessee fans buying tickets for the game.
“Not with this fanbase,” Heupel said. “It’s a nice, short drive up there. Christmas is right around the corner. It’s a great Christmas present.”
Ryan Day: ‘Our fans are invested in this in a big, big way.’
Tennessee is coming off a 36-23 win at Vanderbilt to end the regular season on November 30, punching a ticket to the new 12-team College Football Playoff. Ohio State lost 13-10 at home to rival Michigan, losing out on a chance to play in the Big Ten championship game and earn a bye into the quarterfinals.
The Vols and Buckeyes have met just once in football, with Tennessee winning 20-14 in the 1996 Citrus Bowl in Orlando.
“It’s just exciting for our fans,” Ohio State coach Ryan Day said Monday of the first home playoff game. “And just like our players, our fans are invested in this in a big, big way. So it’s going to be an exciting day, exciting night, 8 o’clock kickoff. And then this week of work for us is going to just continue to build to Saturday.”
