FSU only sold 2K tix for ACC title game and took a bath.
by G.K.Chesterton (2013-02-18 11:20:39)

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According to Warchant.com, each division winner was given 10,000 tickets to sell by the conference. Last season's matchup was pretty uninviting. It was Florida State against a 6-6 Georgia Tech team that finished in a three-way tie in the division with North Carolina and Miami, both of which were ineligible to go to the ACC title game. The conference title game was in Charlotte, which isn't an exciting destination for too many people.

So Florida State sold just 2,033 tickets, according to Warchant.com, and the stadium was less than half full for the game, which actually turned out to be a very competitive 21-15 win for the Seminoles. Although the ACC helped cover some of the expense after the first 6,000 tickets (which are all Florida State's responsibility), FSU's final expense on unsold tickets was $440,491.

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Replies:

• Why do they make teams owe this money in the first place? - DakotaDomer  2013-02-18 11:37:42
  • To whom does FSU owe the money? - tbonesays  2013-02-18 19:16:07
  • The off-campus sites won't agree to host without guaranteed - undfan211  2013-02-18 15:01:11
  • Has worked well for the bowls for alot of years - Domer58  2013-02-18 13:58:48
    • UConn ran into that problem when they went to the BCS - Groundhog  2013-02-18 17:57:33
      • Well, that's worth not having the agreements then. * - cujays96  2013-02-19 13:56:05
• The ACC Championship game has been a failure... - TWO  2013-02-18 11:32:57
  • To be fair, it's Stanford. - Wooderson  2013-02-19 10:46:13
  • ACC should go to Pac12 model - brnd  2013-02-19 07:09:48
    • That probably would work best. - irisharab  2013-02-19 10:50:46
  • The Big Ten game has similar issues to the Pac-12 game * - undfan211  2013-02-18 15:00:25
    • What are those? * - Rosecrea  2013-02-18 18:17:20
  • The TV money more than makes up for the lack - bluengold07  2013-02-18 14:41:27
  • ACC football quality is only slightly better than BE..... * - Wolfetone  2013-02-18 12:48:58
  • Is the B1G game really a success? - irishinfairfax  2013-02-18 12:34:24
    • Nebraska didn't show up. - tbonesays  2013-02-18 19:28:39
• This is why conf. championship games are stupid * - guilfordnd  2013-02-18 11:22:56
  • One of the reason's, anyway. - bandfather  2013-02-18 18:53:40
  • I could see some of them going away. With the new - rkg  2013-02-18 11:34:43
    • Add to that the ceiling on how many times fans can travel - Gabby  2013-02-18 18:15:20

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