The average ticket price for tonight's College Football Playoff National Championship between Michigan and Washington is "the highest since the 2017 season," according to SeatGeek. The average ticket costs $2,845, "about $1,100 more than the previous year's game" between TCU and Georgia in L.A., and the "get-in" price for tonight's game is $1,302. Tickets to the 2017 season National Championship in Atlanta between Alabama and Georgia averaged $3,035, but SeatGeek says those prices "were likely due to the proximity of the schools to the venue" (AXIOS, 1/8).
Storms "could bring the risk of hail and damaging winds to Southeast Texas" in time for the game tonight, and "severe winds" could accompany storms this afternoon and evening. An "estimated 80,000 people" are in Houston today ahead of the game, and "many of those may not be expecting severe weather in January" (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 1/8).
