Less than 48 hours before the No. 1 Oregon Ducks and the No. 3 Penn State Nittany Lions kicked off the Big Ten Championship, fans started to notice that they could get into the conference title game for a relatively inexpensive price.
Of course, there were the thousand-dollar seats that would make fans feel like they were basically on the sidelines but there were tickets listed as low as $15 or $12... surprisingly inexpensive for a Power Conference title.
Some fans even pointed out that the get-in-the-door cost was, somewhat embarrassingly, less than the price to get into the Georgia 6A state championship game – which was set to be played in Mercedes-Benz Stadium and had general admission tickets on sale for $23.
Georgia high school championship games cost $16 https://t.co/8nWPZPYVO4
— Radi Nabulsi (@RadiNabulsi) December 4, 2024
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For comparison, the SEC Championship had tickets on sale starting at a whopping $111. The SEC title game between the No. 2 Texas Longhorns and the No. 5 Georgia Bulldogs would determine which top-tier, Power Conference team received a bye in the first round of the College Football Playoffs – just like the Big Ten title game would.
Despite Oregon and Penn State having the higher cumulative ranking, the cost to get into the Big Ten Championship was nearly a tenth of the cost to attend the SEC title game.
The No. 1 Ducks and the No. 3 Nittany Lions were scheduled to kick off at 4 p.m. PT in Indianapolis – just four hours after the No. 2 Longhorns and the No. 5 Bulldogs kicked off from Atlanta at noon PT.