As the Wisconsin Badgers football team prepares for another visit to Pasadena, University of Wisconsin-Madison students are taking a little more caution in planning what can be an expensive trip to California and buying their tickets to the Rose Bowl.
Tickets to last year’s Rose Bowl sold out within 15 minutes of becoming available to student season ticket holders. The year before it had taken 20 minutes until the only place a student could find a ticket was from someone who had bought it at the original face value.
But this year, as of press time Sunday, tickets were still available on uwbadgers.com. Even so, others were already available above face value on sites such as Craigslist and Stubhub.
To UW-Madison students such as sophomore Seth Parker, the cost of travel and tickets as well as a less exciting season make buying tickets to the Rose Bowl this year less appealing.
“Last year was such an exciting season because we were just so good…but this year it’s just kind of like they’re in it because so many other teams can’t be in it,” Parker said.
