Phoenix Tickets Finder

Look, we all know the BCS is a totally corrupt cartel that is designed to horde all the college football money for six insider conferences and which is dead set against any kind of playoff system that would tell us the actual national champion of Division I football every year… But that doesn’t mean going to the BCS championship game wouldn’t be fun anyway!

Yeah, it’s true that we don’t know who will play against Ohio State in the game yet this year. [Update: Looks like the University of Florida Gators are in and the Michigan Wolverines are out. Sorry Michigan -- you may very well be the best team in the country but until they scrap this crapfest called the BCS and implement a playoff we'll never know] But we do know it will be a sellout and that means that if you want to get in you’ll need to get them from the ticket brokers. Here is how I recommend you go about it.

Step 1 - Check prices at some of these ticket vendors:

Step 2 - Come back here and check out my favorite ticket broker sites:

AIW Tickets had the cheapest tickets (aka the best prices) last time I checked
StubHub is a great place to shop and they’ll let you sell tickets as well as buy
TicketsNow is a must-look too

Tickets are pretty dang expensive by most people’s standards, but if you are a die hard fan it might be worth it.

Here is some more on the (stinky, dirty, rotten, thieving) BCS :

The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a system which selects the college football matchups for five prestigious bowl games, called the BCS bowl games. The teams selected include the conference champion from each of the six BCS conferences plus two (four for the 06-07 season) others (”at-large” selections). The top-ranked and second-ranked teams are pitted in the BCS National Championship Game in order to crown an unofficial NCAA Division I-A national football champion. It has been in place since the 1998 season; it replaced the Bowl Alliance (in place from 1995-1997), which followed the Bowl Coalition (in place from 1992-1994). As of the 2006-07 season, the BCS will air primarily on Fox while only the Rose Bowl will continue to be aired on ABC.

There will be major changes in store for the 2006-07 BCS. First, television rights will shift to FOX, while ABC will continue telecasting the Rose Bowl. Second, the addition of a BCS National Championship Game separate from the games already in the BCS will match the top two teams in the BCS rankings at the site of one of the BCS games one week after these games have been played. (For example, the new University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, which is the site of the Fiesta Bowl, will serve as the host of the 2006 championship game, which will occur in January 2007) As such, the addition of two more “at large” teams will take place. Another new rule states: “…one conference champion from among Conference USA, Mid-American, Mountain West, Sun Belt, and Western Athletic Conferences will automatically qualify to play in a BCS bowl if it is: (1) ranked among the top 12 teams in the final BCS Standings; or (2) ranked among the top 16 teams in the final BCS Standings and ranked higher than the champion of one of the conferences whose champion has an annual automatic berth in a BCS bowl.”[2]

2007 schedule

To be played following 2006 season.

* Monday, January 1 - Rose Bowl Game presented by Citi
* Monday, January 1 - Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
* Tuesday, January 2 - FedEx Orange Bowl
* Wednesday, January 3 - Allstate Sugar Bowl
* Monday, January 8 - BCS National Championship (Glendale, Arizona)