After a Sunday of drama-filled Conference Championships, the Super Bowl XLVI match up is set, and the New York Giants and New England Patriots are headed to Indianapolis. Behind two memorable kicks, the New York-Boston rivalry is set for another epic installment.

In all their excitement about this Super Bowl XLII rematch, fans and sellers have made the 2012 edition the most expensive Super Bowl in three years. In the 12 hours after the Giants won the NFC, prices climbed 8% alone. At a whopping $4,020 average price, prices are 10% higher than last year’s Packers-Steelers game in Dallas, and 72% more than 2010’s Saints-Colts match up in Miami.  With 30,000+ less seats available at Lucas Oil Stadium than Cowboys stadium, we don’t much price softening this year leading up to the game.

Prices range from $2,298 for 22 rows back in the 600s corner section, to $14,707 for 1st row seats at the 50. There’s even an $600,000 luxury suite available, which is roughly the same price as a 5,000 SF mansion in Indianapolis. For those not looking to take out a mortgage to attend this years Super Bowl, the get-in price of $2,298 is currently just over last-year’s get-in of $2,260.

As for the other ticket you’ll need to get to Indy, flights from NYC and Boston have gone up over 250% in the last week, according to Bing Travel, and both routes will cost above $1,000 for a round-trip, coming back Monday. The good news is that Bing predicts both will come down between $100 and $400, with confidence rating above 75%, so hold tight if you dare. As for the last piece of the equation–a room–there is little chance of finding a hotel at this late stage, however, there are 13 listings on Craigslist Indianapolis that range from $400/night up to $4,000 per night. If none of those work out, however, you can always see if the person buying the $600,000 suite has any extra floor space where you can crash.

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It’s been 14 years since the 49ers last played in the NFC Championship game and, as a result, tickets for this weekend’s game are in very high demand. The Giants-49ers game is currently selling at a 451% premium to the 49ers regular season average. Fans in New England, on the other hand, are used to January Football, and are only paying a 60% premium.

Perhaps part of the 7x Niners premium has to do with the fact that San Franciscans were not expecting another home game. When the Giants pulled off the upset in Lambeau, though, fans got an unexpected opportunity to see the Niners play at home for a trip to the SuperBowl. After the Giants win, the average price jumped up to an average of $657. In the last 4 days, the price has come down to $639, or 61% higher than the AFC Championship game in New England.

After the Giants won, over 8,000 tickets flooded the market for the NFC Championship. However, in the last several days ticket have been selling quickly, and there are now under 2,400 left. For the AFC championship, less than 750 tickets are available.

If you’re looking ahead to the next step for your team, SuperBowl tickets are also available. Currently, the average price is $4,035, and you can get-in for $2,350. As the below chart illustrates, though, the market has fluctuated quite a bit over the last week and quantity is up almost 5x since the end of the divisional round. There are currently almost 1,700 tickets available. While already mortgage-payment expensive, the fact that the Packers—the only team within driving distance of Indianapolis—will not have a chance to defend their title may be keeping prices a bit lower for now.

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At TiqIQ we are in the business of tracking ticket prices to your favorite events, and this week’s Giants Playoff game is no different. Tickets for the divisional match-up in Green Bay are down 21% this week, and have fallen 33% in the last three days. For value hunters, there are now deals popping up (especially eBay) close to the $100 mark.

So while demand for this game is relatively low as far as Packer fans go, Giants’ fans appear to be taking advantage of the cheap deals. Since their win over the Falcons, plane tickets from NYC to MIL have spiked 322%. As of 2pm ET today, the cheapest fair to get to Milwaukee is $328, or 46% more than the game average of $225.

Prior to the Giants win, a plane ticket would have cost you less than a game ticket, and we’re sure a few of the true believers took advantage of the opportunity to book a flight. For those that did, an epic weekend awaits. For those that didn’t, the cheapest fare next weekend to New Orleans and San Fran are $288 and $320, respectively. Bing Travel says that ticket prices to New Orleans will drop while prices to San Fran are going up.

For true believers, we recommend keeping a close watch on airfares Saturday during the Saints-Niners game. As for game tickets, the average price for the NFC Championship in New Orleans is $875 vs. $679 in San Francisco. If you want to make a bet on game tickets, you can always resell them, potentially for a profit. As a company interested in tickets and free markets, we’ve always thought that it would be interesting if you could do the same for plane tickets. Security concerns, however, make that an impossibility. Instead, just make sure you’ve got a 24-hour window to cancel your flight, or as an alternative, stay home and save up for the most important game of all in Indianapolis on February 5th.

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While the NFL playoffs is always reason for excitement amongst fans, for this weekend’s wild cards weekend, Texans fans are most excited of all. To calculate excitement, we look at the premium–% above regular season average–for each game.

As shown above, everything is bigger in Texas, including the Texas-sized premium of 128% for Saturday’s Texans-Bengals game. It has been almost 20 years since an NFL playoff game in Houston, and in a state as football-crazed as Texas, the premium comes as no surprise. At an average price of $324, it’s actually the 2nd least expensive game the schedule, ahead of only Sunday’s Broncos-Steelers game, which has an average of $274. Given the this season’s Tebow Mania, the relatively low price for this game does come as a bit of a surprise. In fact, it is only 29% above the season average, and less expensive than the two regular season games against the Bears and Patriots. With struggles and losses in the last three games, it seems that Broncos’ fans belief in Tebow has waned enough to bring prices back to earth.

The two NFC match ups are this weekend’s most expensive games. At $361 per seat, the Giants-Falcons tops the list, with Lions at Saints right behind at $337 per. Both teams, however, had two of the highest regular season home averages so the premium their fans will be paying this weekend is nowhere near that of the fans Texas.

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The BCS title game is just over two weeks away, and while excitement for the rematch continues to build, prices have begun to drop over the last week. The average listing price for BCS title game in New Orleans is down 24% since 12/15, from an average of $2742 to $2075 today. The get-in price has also dropped 22%, from $1415 on 12/15 to $1100 today. Value minded buyers should keep a close eye on eBay auctions, as sellers worried that the price may drop further may start to get aggressive. At last glance, there were several auctions ending within an hour that had last bids of under $1,000.

Still, even with the recent drop in price, tickets for round two of this SEC showdown are 194% more expensive than their regular season meeting in Tuscaloosa back in early November. They’re also 491% above the next closest bowl–The Cotton Bowl–in terms of price, so by no means are tickets cheap. If you’ve been thinking about going, though, now is the time to start paying closer attention to the market as deals should start to come with more frequency. For all listings, click on the view tickets button below:

As you can see above, this weekend’s NFL action is full of games that will have a major impact on many of the remaining playoff races around the league. For tickets to any of these holiday weekend NFL games, click on the buy tickets button below.

The story of this shortened NBA offseason has obviously been the Chris Paul saga. Originally, he was all ready to join up with Kobe and the Lakers, but then David Stern, in all his tyrannical wisdom, killed the deal. Then, finally, after many days of rumors the Hornets were able to get a deal the owners wanted and shipped CP3 off to LA, but this time to join up with Blake Griffin and the Clippers.

With the CP3-Griffin combo, a new “Lob City” was formed, immediately turning the Clippers into one of the most exciting teams in the NBA, and one of the hottest tickets. Prices to see the Clippers come to town have also seen a major boost–up 10%–since the trade, with fans across the league buying up their seats at a rapid pace. Below, you will find the top 5 priced Clippers road games of the year.

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Following Sunday’s win over the Vikings in Minnesota, the Broncos are now 6-1 with Tim Tebow as a starter, and out of nowhere, in pole position for the AFC West title.  In addition lifting the Broncos in the standing, Tebow’s impact has been felt off the field as well.  Journalists can’t stop talking about him, kids are genuflecting in the streets, and as of this week, even Bill Cosby has chimed in with his own pretzel logic on the Tao of Tebow.

He is also driving up ticket prices, and this week’s match up vs. the Bears evidence of his power to not only control events, but also to make people spend money. Since his first start, the average price for this weekend’s game has jumped 47%, to $351. The current get-in price is $175. The biggest spike came after the Broncos improbable, last-minute win the Jets in week 11, which saw the price increase 17%.

With just a few days before the game at Mile High, and the buzz amplifying by the hour, we expect that prices will continue to go up.  Even for analytical minds like ours, it’s impossible to quantify how much of the price increase is the result of Tebow the man versus the results that he elicits. True believers, however, will tell you that’s exactly the point; that you can’t separate the man from the result, and that as a mere mortal, you can only hope to witness it first hand…whatever the price.

With the College Football regular season coming to and end, football fans around the country turn their attention to bowl season which kicks off in about two weeks. Here at TiqIQ we’re doing the same. Below you will find a chart highlighting the top 5 priced bowl games.

As expected, the BCS Title Game is far and away the most expensive game this bowl season. With an average price of $2727, tickets LSU-Bama in New Orleans are selling for 461% more than The Rose Bowl, the second most expensive game on the chart. And while that $2727 price is high, it’s actually 15% less expensive than last year’s title game between Auburn and Oregon, which averaged $3227 a seat.

Following the Rose Bowl, the Fiesta, Sugar and Cotton bowls are all averaging around $300 a ticket, or 89% less than the BCS title game. There was a s significant drop-off in price after the top five, with no games falling in the $200-$300 price range. Bowls that missed the top 5, albeit by a wide margin, include the Alamo Bowl ($191), the Outback Bowl ($165), the Holiday Bowl ($165) and the lone BCS Bowl to fall short of the top 5, the Orange Bowl, where tickets to see West Virginia take on Clemson are selling for $164 a seat, 45% less than the 5th-ranked Cotton Bowl.

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Conference Championship weekend in College Football is just days away as 5 of the top conferences will play their championship games either Friday or Saturday. In the chart on the right you will see the average and low prices for those 5 games.

As expected, the SEC championship between top-ranked LSU and 12th-ranked Georgia tops our list with a $353 average ticket price. That’s 109% more than the second highest priced game, the ACC Championship with (#5) Virginia Tech taking on (#20) Clemson. Following the SEC and ACC is Conference USA’s championship game between (#6) Houston and their high powered offense and (#24) Southern Mississippi. Surprisingly, the Big Ten championship game, a rematch of that thrilling, hail mary-ending game between (#13) Michigan State and (#15) Wisconsin back in October, comes in just fourth on the list, ahead of only the Pac-12 Championship game on Friday night between (#9) Oregon and UCLA. The game in October put an end to Wisconsin’s BCS hopes, so expect another thriller as the Badgers look for some payback at Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday, and with prices averaging just $126 this game might be the deal of the weekend.

It should be another action-packed weekend around college football as the regular season comes to a close, and you can get your seats to any of these great matchups by clicking on the buy button below.