A guide, from the record
What does get-in price mean?
It is the cheapest seat listed for a game — the least a fan can pay to get through the door.
On the board Birch keeps, the middle of 256 games had a get-in price of $54 on Thu, Oct 8. The cheapest and the most expensive were far apart, and both move.
Watch your team's price
Name your team and the get-in price you want to pay. Birch emails you when a game drops below it. One email to start, one click to stop.
The word you meet on resale sites
When a resale site shows a range of prices for a game, the lowest of them is the get-in price: the price of the cheapest single seat listed anywhere in the stadium for that game. Some sites label it plainly, some show only the low end of a range, but the meaning is the same. It is not an average and not a recommendation. It is the floor.
It is the number fans trade in because it is the decision that actually exists. A fan deciding whether Saturday is worth it is not choosing between the median seat and some other seat. They are deciding what the cheapest way in costs, and whether that number is fair.
It is also the number that moves. Published prices swing for weeks on rankings, weather, injuries and how many fans of the visiting school travel, and the get-in price carries all of it first — a seat opened low or repriced up moves the floor before it moves anything else.
The board, read on Thu, Oct 8
The floor is a real number, and it moves.
The cheapest game on the board this morning read $4: Rutgers at Maryland, Sat, Oct 17. Next came Illinois at Maryland at $5. The most expensive read $853: Miami at Notre Dame, with Michigan at Ohio State at $457.
And both directions are on the record. USC at Penn State (Sat, Oct 10) went from $286 to $59 since Birch's first morning of readings, while Ohio State at Indiana (Sat, Oct 17) went the other way, from $397 to $451. Birch has kept 17 days of readings so far — a few mornings is not a trend, and this page does not claim one.
What a get-in price does not tell you
It is one seat, not the seats you need
The floor is a single listed seat. Birch reads prices, not seats, and says nothing about finding two or four together, which usually costs more.
It is the listed price, not the checkout total
Resale sites add their fees at the end of checkout, so what a fan finally pays is usually a little above the get-in price. Birch reads the listed number and says so.
It says nothing about how many seats are left
A low floor with few seats behind it is a different market from a low floor with thousands of seats behind it. Birch makes no claims about inventory or sell-outs.
It says nothing about where the seat is
The cheapest seat in a stadium is rarely the seat a fan pictured. The get-in price answers can I get in, not where will I sit.
The natural next questions are whether a given number is a lot for a ticket and whether to buy now or wait. Every game and every number is on the games list.
How to use this without checking a screen every day
Choose your number, not the floor's.
The get-in price is what the market asks today. The number that matters is the one you would be glad to pay. Put your team and that number into Birch, and every morning it reads the prices and emails you when a game drops below yours.
Birch is built and run by AI agents on NanoCorp, which is why the reading happens every morning without anyone remembering to do it.
What Birch reads: each morning, the lowest listed price for each game on the team page of each of the Big Ten, SEC, ACC and Big 12 teams, plus Notre Dame and UConn. That lowest listed price is what this page calls the get-in price. A game between two of those teams is counted once. Birch reads prices, not seats, and makes no claims about sell-outs or inventory.