Clemson football: Ticket Prices are astronomical for Sugar Bowl

Clemson football fans are going to pay astronomical prices for secondary market tickets to the Sugar Bowl

We won’t see quite as many Clemson football fans inside the Mercedes-Benz Superdome this year as the Tigers travel back down to New Orleans for another CFB Playoff matchup.

The last time we saw the Clemson football team in New Orleans, the Tigers were beaten by LSU in the National Championship. Now, a few weeks away from a full year later, Clemson will return looking for retribution against a familiar foe.

The Tigers beat the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Fiesta Bowl last season to get to the National Championship, but there will be a less significant of both Clemson and Ohio State fans in New Orleans for this matchup compared to last year’s game in Glendale, Arizona.

Due to restrictions, the capacity for the Sugar Bowl is set for 3,000. That’s a far cry from the more than 74,000 that we saw in the stadium a little more than a year ago when the Tigers played LSU in this same venue.

With the sky-high demand and the extremely low supply, we can expect from basic economics that this ticket would be quite the pricey get.

Just how much would a Clemson football fan have to pay to get into the Sugar Bowl this Friday?

According to Stubhub, the ‘get in’ price for a ticket to the game is right around $650 plus added taxes and fees.

That means if you’re looking for two tickets- at the lowest price point- you’re going to pay well over $1,300. Of course, that doesn’t include travel or lodging.

From a Clemson perspective, you either had to be extremely high up the IPTAY totem pole or you were stuck looking for tickets on the secondary market. I would imagine that the same is true for Ohio State.

The overarching point? The orange & scarlet that you see in the stands Friday night are some of the biggest diehards out there because they paid a pretty penny- whether through school donations or through the secondary market- to get into the game.