The get-in price for Tennessee-Ohio State in College Football Playoff keeps dropping
The get-in price for No. 9 Tennessee’s game at No. 8 Ohio State in the first round of the College Football Playoff keeps dropping. As of Thursday morning, tickets were as low as $74 on the secondary market, down nearly half over the last two days.
No. 9 Tennessee (10-2) and No. 8 Ohio State (10-2) are scheduled Saturday night for an 8 Eastern Time start on ABC and ESPN at Ohio Stadium in Columbus. The Vols have never played at Ohio State, or in the state of Ohio for that matter, with the only other game against the Buckeyes coming on a neutral field in a 20-14 win in the 1996 Citrus Bowl in Orlando.
The first round starts Friday night with No. 10 Indiana at No. 7 Notre Dame in an 8 p.m. ET start on ABC and ESPN. The triple header on Saturday will begin with No. 11 SMU at No. 6 Penn State in a Noon ET game and will be followed by No. 12 Clemson at No. 5 Texas in a 4 p.m. start on TNT and streaming on HBO Max.
The get-in price at Ohio State isn’t all that different from the other Saturday games in the first round. Penn State is by far the lowest, with tickets as low as $35 for the afternoon game against SMU. The Texas prices are as low as $85 for the Clemson game.
Notre Dame is a different story, to say the least. The cheapest tickets as of Thursday morning were $434 on SeatGeek. The get-in price on Ticketmaster was $524.
No. 9 Tennessee at No. 8 Ohio State: How To Watch
Start Time: Saturday, 8 p.m. Eastern Time
TV: ABC/ESPN
Streaming: ESPN App
Radio: WNML-FM 99.1 in Knoxville (Bob Kesling, Pat Ryan, Brent Hubbs, Jayson Swain). The Vol Network radio broadcast can be heard on local affiliates across the state of Tennessee.
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Ohio State AD: ‘Don’t sell your tickets. Tennessee fans, they’re rabid fans.’
Tennessee was given an allotment of 3,500 tickets, as mandated by the College Football Playoff. Ohio Stadium has a capacity of 102,780.
According to Awful Announcing’s Ben Koo earlier this week, 42% of resold tickets on SeatGeek have gone to Tennessee residents, though the total numbers of tickets sold on the site was not reported.
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.”
