Texas A&M vs. Miami CFP tickets are more expensive than Aggies fans would have hoped

Christmas will have to come early in both College Station and Coral Gables. With their upcoming No. 7 vs. No. 10 first-round College Football Playoff game, getting into Kyle Field is going to cost way more than a pretty penny. According to StubHub, the cheapest seat you can find for this first-round game will cost you $507... This is both teams' first-ever playoff game, but that is astronomical, y'all!

Add in the fact that massive Kyle Field has well over 100,000 seats, we are talking about at bare minimum $50.7 million will be spent on tickets to go to this game. Everything is bigger in Texas. While we should not be the least bit surprised with how pricey the tickets are, we may need to get our collective heads around how this could conceivably impact the game. How will the atmosphere be?

The easiest conclusion one could jump to is Texas A&M may price out most Miami fans from going.

To date, every team who has hosted a first-round College Football Playoff game has not only held serve at home, but also defeated a team that had been on a bye in the quarterfinals. Last season saw No. 5 Texas, No. 6 Penn State, No. 7 Notre Dame, and No. 8 Ohio State all advance multiple rounds. In fact, No. 8 Ohio State defeated No. 7 Notre Dame in the national championship game over in Atlanta.

While getting a first-round bye would have been swell too, history appears to be on Texas A&M's side.

How crazy ticket prices could impact No. 10 Texas A&M vs. No. 7 Miami

Although one could jump to the conclusion that a higher ticket price could result in a less animated crowd, that seems to only apply to the NFL, and to events like the Super Bowl. Because this game is the first of its kind for Texas A&M, every Aggies fan who has means to make it happen will try their best to do so and go to this game. Besides pricing out traveling Miami fans, there are other wrinkles...

Assuming Texas A&M can go on a little bit of a run here, how much are fans going to want to spend to go to the ensuing game after the No. 7 vs. No. 10? That would be just down the road in the Cotton Bowl, where either the Aggies or the Hurricanes will take on the No. 2-seeded Ohio State Buckeyes. If either team were to pull off that upset, guess where they are heading next? That would be to Phoenix.

In short, Texas A&M's path to a national championship as the No. 7 seed will require the Aggies to win a home game vs. Miami, then beat Ohio State in Dallas, then beat someone from No. 3 Georgia's quadrant in the Fiesta Bowl, and then whoever comes out of No. 1 Indiana's side of the bracket in the national title bout in Miami. If it cost at least $507 to get into the first one, how much will it be in total?

To see all four games may cost one Aggies fan somewhere around $10,000, just to ballpark it a bit...