Question: what's the best way to get tickets to Utah game?
anyone ever get tickets through a former student?
I have a couple who could get me away game tickets...
jdon
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If the front range goes... yes! There are already that many of us out here.
Will be there.
Ranging from $250-$800. Hoped the UMAA would be able to get cheaper, but looks like they will not be good seats. Pulled the trigger.
If you are going, hotel might be tougher than tickets.
A few tidbits on keeping it cheap:
-If possible, try to fly out of a major airport. You can often get a direct flight for $225-$300.
-You DON'T need to rent a car. Public transit in the city is actually really good; the train system will get you pretty much anywhere.
-And you don't have to stay near campus/downtown. Hotels are much cheaper a few miles south. Just have to make sure you're next to a TRAX station...Decent options are the Best Western, Days Inn and La Quinta in the Midvale neighborhood.
A few possible alternative ticketing methods:
Canvass the local Greyhound station, checking under seats and in the rental lockers.
Post a craigslist add offering to marry any, and all, Salt Lake City girls with them there tickets.
Find a partner, toss on your suits, get out your bikes and go knocking door to door for tickets.
on this thread?
As has been pointed out, Rice-Eccles Stadium (RES) is not large (capacity 45,017, record attendance 47,619 - 2014 vs USC).
I wouldn't be surprised if the 2015 opener vs. Michigan sets a new attendance record.
The stadium is in a beautiful setting and there's really not a bad seat in the house. Utah has one of the highest season ticket renewal rates (99 point something %) in all of CFB and exceeds capacity in average attendance. Utah sells about 35,000 season tickets. Student section allocation is about 8,000 seats. Visitor allotments are generally set at 2500 on the high-end (for well traveling schools) and so if you're not receiving tickets through Michigan, your best bet will be to secure tickets anywhere else in the stadium where you can find them.
Visitor sections: W6 & W7 (this will be the Michigan allotment)
Utah student section: E38 thru E42
As a college football fan, I love what inclusion in the PAC12 has done for gameday atmosphere in SLC. Utah probably boasts one of the best traveling fanbases in the conference, but it's always fun to have a good representation of visiting fans in our stadium. I'd say that the most fans another PAC12 school has ever brought into RES was Oregon last year (probably even more than BYU has ever brought since the LaVell Edwards pioneer days ended). Really, that observation is based off of how many visiting fans were scattered throughout the stadium outside of the visitor section. In all, I'd be hard pressed to say that under current circumstances a very well travelled school would have fan representation in excess of 3500. I only suggest that in order to help some of you out who might not be able to get tix through Michigan, because your absolute best bet outside of stubhub or scalping is to check out the Classifieds section of ksl.com (a local news station website):
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=231&cat=84&category=63
As far as pricing goes, my best guess is that for this game anything you can find for less than $150 come game time will probably be a really good deal.