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College Football Playoff Team Struggles to Sell Out National Championship Ticket Allotment
Athlon Sports ^ | Dec 31, 2023 | Alek Arend

Posted on 12/31/2023 10:52:53 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

Washington Huskies fans don't have much faith in beating No. 3 Texas in the Sugar Bowl to advance to the national championship.

Washington is the only College Football Playoff team that has yet to sell all of its national championship ticket allotment. How do we know this? The Huskies sent out an email reminding donors and season-ticket holders that tickets are still available.

Washington has a 20,000 ticket allotment for its fans if the Huskies reach hte national championship game. Fans can claim those tickets, which will be refunded if Washington fails to reach the national championship.

It's pretty sad that Washington has yet to sell the tickets. Any SEC or Big Ten team would sell the allotment in a matter of minutes.

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To: moviefan8

“ These teams sold their soul for money.”

No kidding. Money and TV (I.e., more money) ruined college football. I went to school in the era of pure regional conferences, minimal money, and a handful of bowl games (and no ridiculous minuscule, obscure and oddball bowl games). Our Big 8 spanned Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Colorado, and Nebraska, all contiguous states. The conference had longevity having been formed in 1907, so there was lots of tradition. The year before my frosh year, Big 8 started its association with the Orange Bowl.

Modern collegiate football has become sickening. I pity people who don’t have decades of tradition behind them.


41 posted on 01/01/2024 6:36:34 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

They are just the hired entertainment to draw in suburban-kid money. There is absolutely no loyalty to the brand, especially for a second team quarterback. I only watched the TTU-California game. I could care less about the rest. Mostly second teamers playing each other.


42 posted on 01/01/2024 6:42:01 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: ealgeone

Auburn game? Who lost to New Mexico State handily at home?


43 posted on 01/01/2024 6:43:36 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Of course it’s not the tickets for the game they’re definitely playing. It’s the tickets for the actual championship, which they might not play in. And if they win the Sugar Bowl there’s another week to sell the tickets. Non-story. Honestly it’s kind of weird that they even expect fans to pre-buy tickets for the final game before even knowing who is in, basically expecting to refund 40,000 tickets. Guess you can always count on the NCAA to do something odd.


44 posted on 01/01/2024 6:47:56 AM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: mythenjoseph

Lots of people. Alumni. People who live in the area. People who like sports. It’s not like you’re talking little league here, that would be creepy. College sports are played by adults, it’s all above board. Maybe stop being such a narrow minded killjoy.


45 posted on 01/01/2024 6:56:13 AM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: mythenjoseph

Besides the abovementioned, add gamblers.


46 posted on 01/01/2024 6:59:20 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: Steven Scharf
the cost of traveling to Houston for the game

If they travel to Houston for the Cotton Bowl, I think we've identified the problem.

47 posted on 01/01/2024 7:14:30 AM PST by PAR35
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The CFP Committee was not true to their governing rules and actions prior to this last one which they did what they wanted. By all rights they should have barred Michigan, but they no longer care about the CFP, only money. They should have left both Bama and Georgia out, putting as they did Michigan, FSU, Washington, Texas. Bama should not be in their having lost to TX. It cheapens the loss they had, but then rumors are Nick the Saint may be leaving on better terms than Harbaugh in 2024....


48 posted on 01/01/2024 8:57:18 AM PST by Jumper
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To: Tell It Right; dfwgator

Michigan is -2 1/2 vs Alabama=it can’t be #4 vs #1.

If Texas wins they will be an underdog to both Michigan and Alabama=they can’t be #2.

Ohio St -4 vs Texas would’ve been the line before Ohio St lost to Missouri.

The lines are the forward looking objective indicator.
Ofc they are frequently wrong and have some bias-Michigan has the largest/wealthiest alumni base-
they’re better than the supposition/academic models.


49 posted on 01/01/2024 9:02:25 AM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: Steven Scharf

You are correct. Aside from the fact the SEC will play that next to the last season game in the Snowbelt, putting all the bowls in the South is benefical to a team that isn’t built for a cold weather conference.

Now, if they sent those bowl games to the Snow Belt their would probably be a home field advantage... and definitely a personnel advantage - you play the Snow Bowl in Green Bay, Buffalo, Ann Arbor or Seattle and make Canada part of the festivities with tourism packages, the people who live up North won’t mind.

The arguement is that people are Snow Birds vacationing in the South from the North in the Winter - but no one is giving folks down South a chance to experience the beauty of the North.

Does anyone think Georgia or Bama, or any SEC team for that matter would be favored up on the Great Lakes in an Open Stadium... Ah the Blue Collar Beer Bowl, sponsered by Joe Burrow and Old Milwaukee Beer.


50 posted on 01/01/2024 9:03:53 AM PST by Jumper
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To: DennisR

It’s not horrible, we just played against a lot of top passing teams… and beat them.

Washington will rarely ever have the ball cause the Horns will run on them at will. When you do get it, Penix will be running for his life!

Texas will roll tonight.


51 posted on 01/01/2024 9:31:20 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim
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To: The people have spoken

I don’t think that Washington joining the B1G will change the culture of the conference. SEC fans will go to support their conference. OSU or MI goe to support their team. Next Years B1G logo could verywell be B16, eventually B18 or more likely become the COAST TO COAST CONFERENCE.

However, the SEC is going to hurt financially with their new expansion staying in two time zones. ESecPN and Disney are in trouble. One might say the SEC and ESPN will share whatever fortunes the Network suffers or enjoys. The sheer volume of Media Market Exposure was not lost the B1G Commission Petiti who came over from Major League Baseball - to negotiate a Major Media Market Conference.

The B1G will have every almost every major Metro (Minus TX and GA cities) once they add a Flordia Team and possibly NC Chapel (Raleigh, Durham, Chapil Hill & Charlotte):
Washington/Seattle
Oregon
Mich
NW in Chicago (MI too)
Indiana in Indianapolis
OUS/Columbus/Cincinnati/Cleveland
Rutgers NJ/NYC
Maryland Silver Springs/DC/Balitomore/Northern VA
PSU has PA
Wisconsin, Iowa, Purdue, Nebraska, Minn, Illnois

The power of the media market will begin to pump more money into the B1G/Coast to Coast Conference and eventually this cable of actual Higher Educational Achievement and Science will see better facilities, better marketing, better teams.

What NIKE did in Oreagon... or what happened at Tx AM, Mississippi, or other donor infused institutions will happen much faster in the B1G than what the SEC can provide.

The NIL issue is also a money driven thing which the NCAAF hoped to pull in money not so much from existing revenue sources, e.g., fans, schools, donars, but rather from Advertising and Big Sponsors.

NIL is furthermore becoming a problem when the NCAA recently proposed every student athlete be guaranteed $23,000 in pay FOR EVERY SPORT at any School.... Someone obviously did not get the memo the NIL was not going to translate into a welfare program for students...

I think I’ll go back and demand Underwater Basket Weaving along with my class action suite allies in order to also cash in at the age of late 60’s;)

Seriously though, schools may drop NCAAFB or organize collegiant sports under a different framework. Even if they keep Football (which currently pays for most other programs at small schools), by the time they add women’s sports in the equal number of players to the football roster, your school may end up with Men’s Football, Women’s Soccer, Vollyball, and Womens BB. Men’s BB may be on the chopping block. The NCAA would do well to keep mouth’s shut on the DEI front or risk implosion.

There you have it - most the reasons the B1G will become more than what the SEC currently is - the National (not regional) Hotbed of College Football/Sports (and not a conference being pushed by ESPN). Background on B1G Network getting the B1G Network Contract cira 2012-2014 was a period of bad blood from the ESPNetwork towards the B1G in reporting and the smoke filled backrooms.


52 posted on 01/01/2024 9:31:21 AM PST by Jumper
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To: jy8z

The semi-final is in New Orleans; the final is in Houston.
How many will dump their tickets if their team doesn’t make it?


53 posted on 01/01/2024 10:00:07 AM PST by scrabblehack
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To: swingdoc

You’re letting facts get in the way of a good narrative.


54 posted on 01/01/2024 10:29:02 AM PST by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: SomeCallMeTim

Really 95th in pass defense??? 95th??? And Washington has the #1 offensive line in the country???

The Longhorns are about to be dehorned. Just like the Alamo Bowl last year.


55 posted on 01/01/2024 10:33:59 AM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist .)
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To: shotgun
Nice try , but Washington played every one on their schedule and beat them. At the time of the games, several of those teams were ranked in the top 25 and they gave the Dawgs a run for their money.

Why are Washington fans bragging about beating Utah and USC, teams that weren’t good enough to finish the season ranked? That’d be like Ducks fans bragging about beating Colorado, though ranked at the time finished the season 4-8.

56 posted on 01/01/2024 11:26:35 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: DennisR

lol. In the Alamo Bowl, we had three future NFL players opted out. Bijan & Richon… 95% of our rushing yards, and middle linebacker, Overshown … our leading tackler. I told people to expect a Husky win
.

You’re getting the FULL Horn tonight!


57 posted on 01/01/2024 11:36:24 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim
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To: DennisR

Congrats on the win. Penix is / was amazing. That fumble on our first play in the 3rd Quarter cost us this game… such a shame.

Go beat the HELL out of Michigan


58 posted on 01/01/2024 9:56:42 PM PST by SomeCallMeTim
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To: SomeCallMeTim

Thanks. Hope we can do just that.

Yeah…that fumble really hurt.

Talk about two exciting semifinal games! Both down to the final play. Any one of the four teams could have been the champions.


59 posted on 01/01/2024 10:23:15 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist .)
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To: rexthecat
"Washington will beat Texas. I'll be back after the game to rub it in."

The Washington Huskies 37 The Texas Longhorns 31

Those Husky naysayers can . . .

Bow down to Washington!


60 posted on 01/01/2024 10:48:51 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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