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INDIANAPOLIS — Heidi Kemper and Tiffany Jordan struck up a friendship at a Dave Matthews concert in Cancun in January.
Since then, they’ve attended another Dave Matthews concert and met up in Nashville. But a new twist in their friendship emerged this fall: Supporting Oregon football. Jordan hails from Salem, Oregon, and graduated from the university. Kemper is from Noblesville and had never been to a college football game.
Kemper didn’t have a college football allegiance, so she said it was easy to convince her to become an Oregon fan. And sure enough, she and Jordan were outside the gates at Lucas Oil before they opened on Saturday dressed in the Ducks’ signature neon green and yellow and holding handmade signs.
“I have no expectations because I know whatever expectations I have aren’t going to be enough,” Kemper said. “I’ve been watching pre-game hype shows and other college things that have gone on, and I can’t imagine how that’s going to transform Lucas Oil.”
Kemper and Jordan were among thousands of Big Ten fans streaming through the streets of Indianapolis on Saturday, raising posters and wandering the Tailgate Town across the street of Lucas Oil. Saturday’s championship was the first to take place in the new, 18-team Big Ten and, naturally, the Penn State-Oregon matchup had a cross country flare.
Oregon’s eye-catching uniforms and dominant teams over the past decade have drawn in fans beyond their alumni. Some of those fans were in Indianapolis on Saturday, embracing a rare opportunity to see the Ducks in person.
Dylan Aragon, 23, grew up in South Central Los Angeles and developed an affinity for Oregon because everyone else seemed to like the Northern and Southern California college teams. Plus, he said former Oregon star Marcus Mariota opened his eyes to Ducks’ fandom.
He and a friend received tickets from a coworker, driving three hours from Central Illinois to Indianapolis on Saturday. They took in the Big Ten Experience, watching famed eater Joey Chestnut set a world record while eating 21 pounds of shrimp.
“Most places people are worried to come up and ask for something, but (at the Big Ten Experience), everyone was like, ‘Hey,'” Aragon said. “‘Grab something. Come take a picture.’ It was very welcoming.”
Price wasn’t a major concern for Aragon and a friend, as they got their tickets for free. But it was more of a factor for Oregon fans, some of whom traveled cross-country.
Recent Big Ten title games have featured teams like Ohio State, Michigan, Iowa, Purdue and Northwestern — all within reasonable driving distance. Penn State is an eight-hour drive from Lucas Oil. Eugene, Oregon? A 32-hour trek. And, for many, paying for that drive or a cross-country flight obviously comes along with paying for other expenses like tickets, hotels and merchandise.
Jordan saved on a hotel while staying with Kemper, and paid around $400 total for two tickets as an Oregon season ticket holder. One group of Oregon fans who purchased tickets said they paid around $200 each a month and a half ago.
A group of Penn State students said they paid around $150 each for their hotel and tickets, which they booked earlier this week.
“All of us were saying, ‘This is almost like our spring break,'” student Sarah Nasif said. “So many people spend $300, $400 to go on spring break for a week and have fun. Every one of us is like, ‘No. We are all in, committed to going to Indianapolis spending however much on hotels, tickets, whatever to dedicate that to our team.”
Tickets were notably less expensive for the Big Ten Championship compared to other title games, however. A report from Oregon Ducks on SI on Friday stated that get-in prices on StubHub for the Big Ten Championship were $16, while tickets started at $116 for the SEC Championship.
There are several likely factors, including the lack of Midwestern Big Ten powerhouses Ohio State and Michigan along with both Penn State and Oregon being CFP locks — meaning fans of both teams will likely get to watch playoff games on their own campuses in the coming weeks.
Still, making a conference championship game is a rare feat for many teams. That’s something Nasif can appreciate growing up in Wisconsin with parents who were Big Ten alumni. She last attended the title game 2016 and said she had the time of her life with her parents.
That was, in part, what drove Nasif and her friends to make the eight-hour trek from State College on Friday and miss Christmas festivities over the weekend at Penn State. She thought, “How rare is it going to be that we’re going to all be students and be at the game again?”
“We decided, ‘Screw everything that we have (planned),'” Nasif said. “We can all afford to miss a day of school to come out and support our team.”
It seems like many fans had the same idea — donning everything from glittery green jackets to Colts sweatshirts to Santa suits in the streets of Indianapolis. All to head to Lucas Oil, all in hopes of seeing their team taking a years’ worth of Big Ten bragging rights.
