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Break down of the 92,000 tickets available for the Rose Bowl (Stanford got 30,000)

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The Rose Bowl seats 92,000

Break down of tickets:

30,000 -- sold out by Stanford (initial 28,000 tickets before being granted about 1,800 more)
22,200 -- sold out by Iowa
2,800 -- 200 tickets are given to each of the 13 other B1G schools plus 200 to the B1G office
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55,000 total of above


So that leaves 37,000 tickets to account for.

I am assuming brokers and any regular Joe Blow could buy these remaining 37,000 tickets. Per the CR Gazette, in October, and leading up to the B1G Championship game, you could still buy tickets from the Rose Bowl at face value ($150 or $180/ticket). Not so now, of course.

Iowa received 54,381 ticket requests. Makes you wonder how many Iowa fans will make it to Pasadena.

One thing is clear; the Rose Bowl will be at least 1/3 Stanford red.

Tickets are currently available for $532/ticket on Stub Hub ($450 + $82 in fees).
 
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bdg8 said:
Why was Stanford given more?
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that is a good question!!! See below, which is where i got Stanford's numbers

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David LombardiESPN Staff Writer
Stanford has sold out its Rose Bowl ticket allotment of about 30,000 seats, officials in the athletic department told ESPN. The Cardinal quickly sold out their initial 28,000 tickets before being granted about 1,800 more. Those are now gone as well, so fans will have to turn to the secondary market from here on out. Iowa is also experiencing high demand for their allotment. The average resale price of a Rose Bowl ticket, in fact, is significantly higher than any other postseason college football game.
 
Of the 4 sites I've been watching (stub hub, prime sports, seat geek, and vivid) there are less than 5,000 tickets on the secondary market. I'm sure there are more sites and more tickets to come but I expected a lot more tickets to be posted, especially from the Stanford side. At least prices are steadying a little lower than they were last week.
 
20Hawks14 said:
Of the 4 sites I've been watching (stub hub, prime sports, seat geek, and vivid) there are less than 5,000 tickets on the secondary market. I'm sure there are more sites and more tickets to come but I expected a lot more tickets to be posted, especially from the Stanford side. At least prices are steadying a little lower than they were last week.
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so, who has the other 37,000 tickets? you are seeing 5,000 for sale; i wonder if locals bought the rest?
 
bdg8 said:
Why was Stanford given more?
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Seriously, I'd like to see an explanation for this discrepancy, if it does, indeed, exist. It should go without saying that both schools would receive equal allotments, shouldn't it?
 
I know my cousins's company out in LA got 6 tickets for the game. His boss usually takes them, but since my cousin is an Iowa grad, his boss is letting him have them. I asked if I could get one, but he is taking his family to the game.

I know other bowl games that hand out tickets to businesses and companies long before the match-up is set. I am assuming that is where some of those tickets went as well.
 
You'd think the home team (Iowa) would get more tickets than the opposition.
 
Northwestern Mutual (the main sponsor), got a large allotment. They were available to NML employees until last Monday.
 
Only explanation I could guess is Stanford was a Conference champion and Iowa wasn't.
 
I think the Pac 12 or closer school usually gets more tix based on proximity with the thought they will be able to get more fans there. This year obviously you could have given each school 35 k and they would have filled them each.
 
It really should not be that difficult to understand. The amount that each school gets is set by the bowl contracts with each league. Clearly the Pac-12 is getting more than the Big Ten. The reasoning there shouldn't be too hard to understand, either: The fans of that school will always be closer to Pasadena than the B1G representative, so clearly they are interested in moving as many tickets as possible within the competing fanbases, and figure in most years selling more of them to the Pac-12 fans is the financially smarter thing to do. This covers their ass if they end up with Northwestern or Rutgers some year by a freak act of God.

As to where the "rest" of the tickets are going, the companies that book these travel packages are certainly eating up a lot of them. Someone should ask Kakert where the tickets are coming from for the HawkeyeReport travel package. Miller's site also has a package, as do Winebrenner, etc. There must be some on the Stanford side, too. Clearly, this is going to cover tens of thousands of tickets. The question is, how to they get access to them? Are they being held back in some way until the matchup is set? How does Winebrenner, for example, get ahold of them and not some OSU-affiliated travel company? Also, isn't Winebrenner now affiliated with the UI? But they are clearly getting tickets outside of the UI allotment, correct?
 
OnceAhawk said:
so, who has the other 37,000 tickets? you are seeing 5,000 for sale; i wonder if locals bought the rest?
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I assuming those tickets are all apart of Rose Bowl packages being sold by other companies. That, and probably bought up by other companies that either sell them or give them away.
 
I woud really like to hear the Rose Bowl's rationale for giving Stanford 33% of the tickets to the game and only giving Iowa 24%. Did they not think Iowa would be able to sell 30,000 tickets after a 25 year Rose Bowl draught?
 
The Stanford ticket office told me that some years the B1G teams have trouble selling all of there tickets. Makes sense being that there has been a lot of repeat B1G teams in the last 15 years and with how expensive of a bowl it is for midwesterners it would be hard to justify for most going more then once.
 
I live out west and from what I am hearing you can expect there to be over 40,000 Stanford fans in the stadium.
 
Auger said:
The Stanford ticket office told me that some years the B1G teams have trouble selling all of there tickets. Makes sense being that there has been a lot of repeat B1G teams in the last 15 years and with how expensive of a bowl it is for midwesterners it would be hard to justify for most going more then once.
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Stanford has been pretty repetitive being there 3 out of the last 4 years. MSU fans made it sound like Stanford had a pretty poor showing compared to the amount of MSU fans there. I expect Iowa to outdo MSU by a decent margin.
 
I wonder how many of the 30,000 Stanford tickets are going to be going on the secondary market? I can't imagine that Stanford fans can be too excited to go to their 3rd Rose Bowl in 4 years and see Stanford play Iowa.
 
Scherrman said:
Stanford has been pretty repetitive being there 3 out of the last 4 years. MSU fans made it sound like Stanford had a pretty poor showing compared to the amount of MSU fans there. I expect Iowa to outdo MSU by a decent margin.
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MSU had about 65K fans there. I doubt Iowa is going to outdo that by a "decent margin." I imagine it will be similar but MSU fans were able to get their hands on about 10K of Stanford's allotment. It seems Stanford has caught on and will not allow that to happen again
 
schneeb5 said:
MSU had about 65K fans there. I doubt Iowa is going to outdo that by a "decent margin." I imagine it will be similar but MSU fans were able to get their hands on about 10K of Stanford's allotment. It seems Stanford has caught on and will not allow that to happen again
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I think some of the Stanford fans will sell their tickets. However I do know Stanford fans are a lot more excited this year then they have been in some of the past years largely due to their offense and McCaffrey. I think at best it will be a 50/50 corwd of Iowa and Stanford fans. If this was Orange Bowl prices I think you would see 60,000 plus Iowa fans but a lot of fans got priced out.
 
schneeb5 said:
MSU had about 65K fans there. I doubt Iowa is going to outdo that by a "decent margin." I imagine it will be similar but MSU fans were able to get their hands on about 10K of Stanford's allotment. It seems Stanford has caught on and will not allow that to happen again
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You greatly underestimate the fan base of Iowa, take a look at the the Big Ten Championship, it was at least 60% black and gold in the stadium and probably at least 75% around Indy. We are going with a group of 25 people and only 11 of us have tickets. The surrounding areas will be littered with black and gold and if there is anywhere that sells busch light in that area look out for a large swarm of black and gold
 
I work for a large fortune 100 company, and I know we have well over 100 Rose bowl tickets to give out to large clients, etc, and we are not a sponsor.
I assume many large companies have such an arrangement with certain bowls??
 
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Auger said:
I live out west and from what I am hearing you can expect there to be over 40,000 Stanford fans in the stadium.
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that's probably because all the wealthy Iowa donors are selling their allotment of 8 tickets to make a few extra bucks, huh? at least that was your theory last week...
 
Auger said:
I think some of the Stanford fans will sell their tickets. However I do know Stanford fans are a lot more excited this year then they have been in some of the past years largely due to their offense and McCaffrey. I think at best it will be a 50/50 corwd of Iowa and Stanford fans. If this was Orange Bowl prices I think you would see 60,000 plus Iowa fans but a lot of fans got priced out.
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I got priced out. I was dead set on going until I realized it was going to cost over $3,000 for two people. I went to the Orange Bowl in 2003 and it only cost me like $700 for one person and that was with a hotel on the beach.
 
His Hawkness said:
I got priced out. I was dead set on going until I realized it was going to cost over $3,000 for two people. I went to the Orange Bowl in 2003 and it only cost me like $700 for one person and that was with a hotel on the beach.
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Same thing for me. My wife and I could go on a tropical vacation for a week for less than that. Hell, I could fly to Europe for that. That's too much for 3 days in LA.
 
Scherrman said:
Same thing for me. My wife and I could go on a tropical vacation for a week for less than that. Hell, I could fly to Europe for that. That's too much for 3 days in LA.
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True, but you don't get to pick when the Hawkeyes go to the Rose Bowl. Thousands of Hawkeye fans over the last 25 years have died waiting for the next Rose Bowl.
 
Birky said:
True, but you don't get to pick when the Hawkeyes go to the Rose Bowl. Thousands of Hawkeye fans over the last 25 years have died waiting for the next Rose Bowl.
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This. The Rose Bowl is still special. If Iowa would have made the CFP, I don't think I would have made the trip to Dallas or Miami. I am going to Pasadena because its the Rose Bowl.
 
I bought two tix through a Stanford Alum and season ticket holder.
Also once they heard what Hawkeye fans were paying I am sure they bought them up quickly.
So not necessarily all Stanford fans using them
 
Birky said:
True, but you don't get to pick when the Hawkeyes go to the Rose Bowl. Thousands of Hawkeye fans over the last 25 years have died waiting for the next Rose Bowl.
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It would have been different if we were hoping and planning on going to the Rose Bowl. We decided to go to the Championship game and were not going to pursue the Rose Bowl. Monday rolls around and all of a sudden I have two tickets available to me so I started looking at what it would cost. At that point it was too late to find anything decent.

Even if I did decide to spend the money, the flight times are terrible and so are the layovers. We came very close to doing it but just figured it wasn't going to be worth it.
 
whatsup13579er said:
This. The Rose Bowl is still special. If Iowa would have made the CFP, I don't think I would have made the trip to Dallas or Miami. I am going to Pasadena because its the Rose Bowl.
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Going to Dallas or Miami would have been much easier and cheaper, at least for me. Part of me is really sad that I'm not going but part of me is relieved that I won't be putting myself through the hassle of traveling over the holidays.
 
From 1972 to l997, the seating capacity of the Rose Bowl
was 104,091. So they now have 12,000 less seats for sale.
 
Scherrman said:
It would have been different if we were hoping and planning on going to the Rose Bowl. We decided to go to the Championship game and were not going to pursue the Rose Bowl. Monday rolls around and all of a sudden I have two tickets available to me so I started looking at what it would cost. At that point it was too late to find anything decent.

Even if I did decide to spend the money, the flight times are terrible and so are the layovers. We came very close to doing it but just figured it wasn't going to be worth it.
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Certainly not saying you should spend the money. That is a ton of lettuce. Just saying I wouldn't even consider for 1/2 second taking a week long tropical vacation over a Rose Bowl trip. That is no comparison. The tropics are probably going to be there for awhile. Your kids may have to leave a Rose on your grave, and talk about how they "wish dad were still around" before they leave for Pasadena on the next Hawkeye Rose Bowl swarm...or you can go next year. Who knows?;)
 
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