Good luck getting tickets to Hawkeye-Cornhusker game
Iowa football fans seeking tickets to the Nov. 25 game at Nebraska might want to search secondary outlets – unless you’re a big-bucks Hawkeye contributor or a friend of someone holding Cornhusker season tickets.
“I’m guessing that our donors will use up our allotment like they’ve been known to do in the past,” Iowa ticket manager Pam Finke said this week. “Just like (games at) Wisconsin and Minnesota, it’s going to be a tough ticket.”
It’s still the madness of March, but already football-starved fans are wondering how to purchase a ticket for an Iowa game that will rival in popularity the Hawkeyes’ Sept. 10 game at Iowa State.
“We’ve had inquiries,” Finke said, acknowledging last week’s announcement that the game was moved ahead a day stirred interest. “People are thinking about that game, because they know it’s going to be tough to get a ticket.”
It’s a popular game, anyway, this border rivalry between teams with a combined 169 wins and 17 bowl appearances the past 10 seasons.
Adding spice to the first Hawkeye-Cornhusker game since 2000 is that Nebraska is joining the Big Ten, and like Iowa, will be part of a six-team Legends Division also consisting of Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska and Northwestern.
“People over here are very excited for the Big Ten,” said Andy Greer, a Nebraska ticket office representative. “It’s going to be a very popular game.”
Large financial contributors will be given the first opportunity to purchase 3,500 tickets of Iowa’s allotment of 4,000. Finke said around 500 will be set aside for families of players and staff.
Donors will be sent ticket information regarding that game next month. Any remaining tickets will go on sale to the general public.
“Our allotment will be gone with the donors,” Finke predicted. “I will be very surprised if they’re not.”
They’ll pay $70, the same price Penn State and Minnesota will charge Iowa fans for road games. Iowa State is charging $90 for tickets in Iowa’s allotment for the game at Jack Trice Stadium, Finke said.
That game is the second Saturday of the season. The Nebraska game is on a Friday in late November.
“I think people are excited about playing on a Friday, but it could be a challenge for some because it’s the day after Thanksgiving,” Finke said. “Still, I’m not anticipating having any (tickets) left once our donors have had their chance.”
Category: Iowa Hawkeyes Football
Is that the only game ISU charges $90 for? Guess you got to do what you got to do when you only sell out one game every other year. LMAO. GO HAWKS!
On another note I would rathar watch the games at home where I can eat what I want when I want, go to the bathroom when I want and the only loud mouth I have to deal with is myself.
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Agreed – throw in HD, and sometimes it’s a better seat than in the stadium!
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This game is a bigger deal than the ISU-Nebraska game. As far as getting tickets… no worries. I have a first row seat in front of my 60″ high def TV.
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I can get good seats, maybe 50-yard line; intend to sell them and watch the game at home. I wouldn’t want to go to a stadium where people where corn cobs on their heads, and if the few Nebraska fans who have posted messages in here are any fair sample of what they are mostly like, the only way I’d go to Lincoln, Nebraska, is if my plane were to crash there.
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1. $90 ISU? Really? really?
2. One small detail the story didn’t mention: Nebraska has sold out every game at home since 1966.
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