Hard Rock Stadium hosts college football’s biggest game Jan. 19, when Miami meets Indiana for the College Football Playoff National Championship. Fans who waited for an opponent now stare at a price wall.
Secondary-market “get-in” tickets sat around $2,800 before Indiana clinched its spot in the game Friday night. Minutes after the Hoosiers finished off Oregon in the Peach Bowl, that entry point jumped to about $3,800 for seats parked in the last rows of the upper deck.
The top end looks even wilder. Listings cleared $10,000 late Friday across multiple resale platforms, including StubHub, TickPick and Ticketmaster resale.
A quick scan across marketplaces on Saturday, Jan. 10, shows fans paying luxury prices for a “nosebleed” view:
- SeatGeek pegged its cheapest Indiana-Miami listing at $3,719 and its average resale around $4,390.
- Vivid Seats listed tickets starting at $3,250 with an average near $5,741
- Ticketmaster resale options started at around $3,100 Friday afternoon.
Local ticket brokers also see the squeeze. Upper-bowl seats hovered near $2,500 in the early rush, with lower-level end zones around $3,500 and club areas around $4,500 — and those numbers climb quickly near midfield.
Miami draws a home-game crowd while chasing a sixth national title, and the fan base already pushed program-record demand this season. The Hurricanes sold more than 500,000 tickets across eight regular-season home games, per the AP report. Add Indiana’s first trip to this stage, plus a traveling fan base we already saw show up heavy in Atlanta, and the market reacts like a bidding war.
Each school receives a set number of tickets, and Miami has already moved most of its allotment. That leaves fans fighting on the secondary market.
Miami fans have dreamed about a title game back in South Florida for two decades. That dream now carries a four-figure cover charge.
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