On Tuesday, December 1st, the latest rankings for the College Football Playoff were released and it certainly looks like the Oklahoma Sooners will be part of the second ever four-team playoff.
The Sooners won their pseudo-Big 12 Championship Game this past Saturday night, routing the Oklahoma State Cowboys in Stillwater by 35 points. The Sooners are idle this Saturday as the rest of the Power 5 conferences have their championship games, as the Big 12 currently does not have a championship game of their own.
Clemson, Alabama and Iowa hold the other three spots, with Michigan State and Ohio State lurking in the fifth and sixth spots. There’s essentially no way the Sooners would be knocked out of any of the four spots, as Ohio State cannot add another quality win because they aren’t in the Big Ten Championship Game and a two-loss Stanford team would not be placed above them, even with a Pac-12 Championship Game win.
When prospecting for Oklahoma Sooners football tickets on the secondary market for their possible matchups, one can only assume their matchup against Alabama would garner the highest ticket prices. According to secondary market aggregator TotallyTickets.com, the SEC Championship Game has the highest average ticket price of all the championship games in college football. It would be reasonable to assume that if Alabama were paired up with Oklahoma it would be the highest priced game in the College Football Playoff.
Both the ACC Championship Game and the Big Ten Championship Game are eerily similar in pricing, so it would be tough to project which team would create the highest ticket prices between the four teams involved in those games if paired against the Sooners.
Currently, the ACC Championship Game has an average ticket price of $304.46 with a get-in price of $149 and the Big Ten Championship Game has an average ticket price of $304.18 with a get-in price of $147. Clemson, North Carolina, Iowa and Michigan State are the four teams involved in those two games, and the easiest assumption may be that the least expensive opponent for Oklahoma would be North Carolina.
