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Has anyone ever gone to the championship game? Michigan hasn't really been a part of it and I never wanted to go to the first playoff game so I have never checked prices. Been a pretty tough 18 months for our family so my wife has been telling me we should go because she knows i'd love to see it in person.. BUT.. ticket prices are pretty crazy in my eyes.

Nosebleeds are about $1300 per ticket. Corner endzone, not amazing seats you're looking at 2k. Is this normal? Oddly, flights from Cleveland to Houston also seemed to be overpriced right now. I've made the flight to Houston and Dallas plenty of times and never have flights been remotely close to $1000 per seat for economy. There's a couple that are near $500, but they are 5:45 am flights.. which no thank you. Pretty shocking what people pay to go to these games I guess.

Twenty years ago when LSU made the NC against Oklahoma I looked at tickets, thinking I might scoop some up.  I had just been to the Sugar Bowl two years prior to watch the team play against Illinois, I thought it would be about the same price.  I was young and dumb.  (Now I'm old and dumb.)  My memory is fuzzy, but I know I recoiled at the prices and realized I couldn't afford a ticket.  I want to say everything I saw was around $1000, and that was for the worst seats.  So my guess is those prices are probably the norm for NC games. 

I don't know why the price of flights to Houston would be affected by that.  That part seems odd.  I've often lived close to Houston and thus never flown there, but I'd assume it should be like flying to Atlanta, Denver, etc.  No idea what's going on with that.  Although it's been four years since I've flown anywhere, maybe prices have skyrocketed since then.  

I'd take that money and go hang out in Tuscany for a while.

I told my wife we are pivoting the plans and taking the family to Florida first week of February instead. Either Naples or the kids back to Orlando area. Id rather watch the game from a good seat on my couch and then spend the money on warm sun and the beach with the family. 

Naples is an hour South from me. The Florida Naples, that is.

It's my favorite area.. before last year we were going down there yearly. We aren't nightlife people so we love the culture in the area. Great beaches, great food and an awesome catamaran company we hit up every time. That and the flight from Cleveland to RSW is quick and easy and that's actually a great airport to rent a car from. Are you in the Bonita area?

The regular Joes are not going. Not even the more well-to-do Joes are going.

I'd take that money and go hang out in Tuscany for a while.

Not just the corporate tickets, but all of the tickets that have been made available through promotions.  The number of available tickets for the semis vs the title, is vastly different.

It's my favorite area.. before last year we were going down there yearly. We aren't nightlife people so we love the culture in the area. Great beaches, great food and an awesome catamaran company we hit up every time. That and the flight from Cleveland to RSW is quick and easy and that's actually a great airport to rent a car from. Are you in the Bonita area?

We're in Burnt Store Marina.

I paid $1400 for a single ticket in the lower level endzone section, 20 rows behind the goalposts, for the 2006 National Championship game between Ohio State and Florida in Arizona. No regrets at all.

The game certainly wasn't the breathtaking back and forth as was the previous year's game between Texas and USC, but that wasn't the point.

Had just returned from a stressful deployment to the Middle East and had the cash to burn. And as a kid transformed into a Gators fan living the early 90s in Florida, where after watching Saturday morning cartoons, my grandpa would take over the TV, flipping on Spurrier's Gators teams, it was a more than unique and memorable chance to see my team win a championship. To this day, whenever I'm watching a championship I never have to guess what it's like to watch your team win it all. In person or otherwise.

Sure helps to balance out all the bad Arizona Wildcats football I've suffered through since soon after becoming a student at the University of Arizona.

No regrets it all. Still have the lanyards, game programs, and souvenir cups that came with the ticket. If you're a Michigan fan, $4000 for ticket(s)/flights/hotels would be worth seeing my team in a National Title game. That last Michigan Rose Bowl/Championship was 26 years ago.