Indiana played a home game during the semifinal round of the College Football Playoff at the Peach Bowl due to a major statistical advantage. However, Hoosiers fans are now at major disadvantage for the national championship due to outrageous ticket prices in Miami and poor timing.
It will be interesting to see the color of the crowd at kickoff on Jan. 19.
I fully expect the Hurricanes to hold the majority. I am curious to see by how much.
Oregon fans were severely out-numbered at the Peach Bowl.
The top-ranked team in college football played in front of a raucous home crowd at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Friday night. Ducks fans actually might’ve been outnumbered by a split of 95/5. No less than 90/10.
It was abundantly clear that it was going to be a sea of red more than five hours before kickoff. Indiana fans overwhelmed the streets of Atlanta.
I think Indiana fans are outnumbering Oregon fans 10282832 to 1 here in Atlanta pic.twitter.com/F25hoROkgT
— Zach Klein (@ZachKleinWSB) January 9, 2026
They where everywhere during pregame.
There was not a lot of green and/or yellow.
It was a complete and total takeover before the players even took the field.
Not even kidding, it might be 95/5 Indiana vs Oregon fans pic.twitter.com/KbenRyHG09
— Alyssa Lang (@AlyssaLang) January 10, 2026
There was just one, very small section of Oregon fans in the corner and a few stragglers throughout.
Indiana fans TOOK OVER the Peach Bowl
— Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) January 10, 2026
It's a sea of red in Atlanta for the Oregon-Indiana matchuppic.twitter.com/JtfVbUhVZL
Dante Moore thought it was just the color of the seats.
"I thought it was just red seats, but it was Indiana fans"
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) January 10, 2026
Oregon's Dante Moore talks about how much of an impact Hoosier fans had on the environment at the Peach Bowl pic.twitter.com/haWI4ELLUE
He was wrong.
The Hoosiers had two major advantages in terms of crowd size. First and foremost, the University of Indiana has the largest living alumni base in the country at more than 800,000. Oregon has only one third of that amount at approximately 270,000. The Ducks were going to be outnumbered from the jump.
And then you factor in the travel.
Bloomington, Indiana is less than an eight hour drive from Atlanta, Georgia. Doable. A flight from Indianapolis is only 90 minutes. Easy.
It is entirely unfeasible to drive from Eugene, Oregon to Atlanta. Flights from Eugene to Atlanta are approximately five and a half hours. There aren’t many of them and Portland is the closest travel hub.
All of this goes to say that Indiana fans are everywhere and those who live close to campus could get to The Big Peach with relative ease. Oregon fans are not as easy to find and those who live in the Beaver State are fairly stuck in terms of travel.
The crowd reflected those two advantages.
National Championship ticket prices present a challenge for Indiana fans.
The final matchup of the 2025-26 college football season is now set. Indiana will play Miami… in Miami.
The crowd advantage for the Hoosiers is gone.
Is it obviously much harder to travel from Bloomington to (the most south) Florida than to Atlanta. On a much larger scale, it is much harder to travel from anywhere to Miami.
With that being said, the Hoosiers will not have any competition for flights because this is a geographic home game for the Hurricanes. That helps.
However, they will run into one major issue upon arrival — ticket prices.
The cost of a single ticket for the national championship was already high before the semifinal games. And then Miami won first, which allowed all of the local fans to scoop their tickets on Thursday night and Friday morning. Indiana fans had to wait to see if their team was going to win.
As a result, ticket prices for the College Football Playoff national championship game skyrocketed.
The least expensive ticket on the resale market is currently listed at $3,766. For Section 306.
That is likely going to drop some but not by that much— to where it is “reasonably” priced. Tickets cost a fortune.
Hoosiers fans have to pay that number on top of what they spend on travel. Hurricanes fans just have to buy a ticket. They already live in the city where the game is being played. There is no travel.
And they had an extra day to get their tickets.
Unless Indiana fans already grabbed their tickets before Miami won the Fiesta Bowl or choose to pay a fortune, their home-field advantage from the Peach Bowl (and even the Rose Bowl) is gone. It is probably going to be a sea of green and orange with just a smattering of red.
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