High ticket prices – which range from $70 for upper deck tickets to $258 for club level seats – have been blamed for the crowd size.
USC coach Steve Spurrier said on his call-in show last week that the ticket he was issued for his wife was priced at $257.
“That’s Super Bowl prices,” Spurrier said. “I think that’s a little too steep or else we could fill the ballpark.”
Ticket prices were set by the game’s organizing committee and not the participating universities.
South Carolina athletics director Ray Tanner told the school’s board this summer that he had been asked a lot about the prices and ‘we did not have anything to do with the ticket prices for that game.
“That is an expensive ticket,” he said.
Webb defended the prices, saying they are on par with other major neutral site college football kickoff games. But he said his group will consider lowering ticket prices for future games.
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