to the Chik bowl in the ATL? Will they be hard to get?
I don't believe tickets will be difficult to come by.
Va. Tech DOES travel well-----the fact that they played their first game this year at the Georgia Dome might shrink their road following just a bit-----for some fans, that trip represented all they planned to do in terms of traveling to see the team play on the road. UT travels well, too. Plus, no bowl game last year at all means that traveling Vol fans will be "itching" to get on the road again.
Taking all of this into consideration, the game might be sold out....but there will be plenty of tickets available from alternate sources.
UT allowed season ticket holders the option of buying tickets to bowl games two or three weeks ago (and they still can right now)----they listed several bowl games that UT could potentially be invited to. You then chose which of those games YOU WILL buy tickets for------it was not a polling of interest; you actually gave them your credit card # which they will charge if UT goes to one of the bowl games you selected. I indicated I would buy tickets if UT went to either Atlanta or Tampa, so.... the credit card charge will show up this weekend after the bowl announcement is made. UT uses this process so that they can KNOW how many tickets they are guaranteed to sell. This is important because the school has to make a commitment on the # of tickets they will buy to any potential bowl game. They will, of course, sell MORE than just those that season ticket holders bought-----BUT it is a good indicator of the interest in the bowl game and how many they can potentially sell. If its' true that Auburn committed to 30,000 tickets and UT would not, it probably means that the PRE-sale to season ticket holders indicated they couldn't get to that level of sales. Hard to believe Auburn could either----but perhaps Auburn is willing to buy that many regardless of how many they think they can sell to their fans.
I hope that UT fans will travel to Atlanta in droves. When Alabama and Va. Tech played earlier this year the tickets were split 50/50 and the representation was 50/50. That usually does not happen in a bowl game-----it just depends. Even in recent SEC Championship games that UT has participated in, the years we played LSU the UT fans outnumbered LSU fans about 5 to 1. But against Auburn is was 50/50. My guess is the Dome will about 50/50 on New Year's Eve.