Reply #3: Don't buy tickets until you get there!

[RagingInMiami]

I went to the national championship game in the Rose Bowl a few years ago when the Miami Hurricanes were playing the Nebraska Cornhuskers. I arrived with no tickets, but I ended up buying two tickets from a scalper for my then-girlfriend and I for $100 ($50 bucks each).
We ended up sitting in corner of the endzone, about three rows up from the ESPN booth, where the canes ended up scoring bigtime.
Because it has a 91,000 seating capacity, the buyer has the power, not the scalper. A friend of mine said he did the same a few years earlier when Arizona State University played Ohio State in the rose bowl.