The Ohio State isn’t playing around with their ticket sales for Jim Harbaugh’s first visit to the stadium, next season.
In a move that is sure to rock the secondary market as well, Columbus Biz Journal is reporting that the university athletics council made its recommendations for 2016 ticket prices to the school’s trustees this week, fully implementing a variable ticket model that would make bigger games on the schedule more expensive.
The price for a face-value ticket for Harbaugh’s first visit has been set at $195, a school record.
A season ticket will run $614, based on a 15 percent discount on the full slate of seven regular-season home games.
Student tickets will remain at $34 per game through at least the 2020 season, based on the council’s proposal.
Ohio State uses revenue generated from ticket sales – $48.5 million in 2014 and a projected $48 million this year – to fund scholarships for over 625 student-athletes in its self-sustaining athletics department.
Considering what these tickets will fetch on the secondary market, if you have $195 to dropped right now, you might be able to flip that into a mortgage payment.