The Week in TicketCity Search – August 26th

TicketCity Week in Search

Current
Rank
Last
Week
Event
Searched
1 - Virginia Tech Football
2 2 Texas Longhorns Football
3 1 Justin Bieber
4 - Mindless Behavior
5 4 Mississippi State Football
6 - Georgia Football
7 3 Dallas Cowboys
8 - ACL Fest
9 7 Taylor Swift
10 - Texas A&M Football

The Hokies, out of nowhere, take the top spot this week. Fun fact: my dad was a “Hokie.” While I did not follow in his footsteps, it did make getting an acceptance letter from Tech pretty easy. They are followed by one of the usual suspects this time of year, the Longhorns, who hold onto the number #2 spot this week. We find the esteemed Mr. Bieber in the countdown at #3, followed by a newcomer to the countdown who posted a similar “out of nowhere” performance.

Mindless Behavior is a boy band, or so Wikipeida tells me. Doesn’t tell me much more than that. I guess they’re not quite Menudo, NKOTB, or ‘N Sync yet. They have an album, the charmingly titled #1 Girl, and have been the opening act on Janet Jackson’s recent greatest hits tour.

The reminder of the countdown is far more conservative. While the schools change, college football is a constant, as are the Cowboys, as this the point in the season where optimism abounds.

ACL Fest returns to the countdown. The festival kicks off September 16th, so we’re only three weeks away now. Be sure to stay cool out there, as the forecast is for more of the same toasty temps from the past few months. Better than rain, at least.

Football Powerhouses Also Make A Play For Top Party Schools

This week the Princeton Review released its annual rankings of the Top 10 ‘party schools’ in the US, as ranked by a survey of 122,000 co-eds at 371 colleges.  And how surprising is it that there seems to be some overlap when you also consider some of the top ranked college football teams is the nation?  Probably not surprising at all.

We compared the top party school list with the Preseason Top 25 College Football rankings by our parnter, Athlon Sports.  This is what we found.  All four of the top-ranking party schools were also ranked in the preseason Top 25 (top 14, actually) for football, and of the top 10 party schools, six also had ranked football teams.  Call it antoher testament to what we knew all along: football is life.

College Location Party School Rank College FB Preseason Rank
Penn State University State College, PA 1 7
University of Florida Gainesville, FL 2 1
University of Mississippi Oxford, MS 3 10
University of Georgia Athens, GA 4 14
Ohio University Athens, OH 5 -
West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 6 -
University of Texas Austin, TX 7 3
University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 8 -
Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 9 15
University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 10 -
University of Colorado Boulder, CO 11 -
University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 12 23
Union College Schenectady, NY 13 -
Indiana University Bloomington, IN 14 -
DePauw University Greencastle, IN 15 -
University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 16 -
Sewanee: The University of the South Sewanee, TN 17 -
University of North Dakota Grand Forks, ND 18 -
Tulane University New Orleans, LA 19 -
Arizona State University Arizona State, AZ 20 -

Whether your school is a keggers’ convention, a football powerhouse – or both, you can find tickets to football games and great events in your area at www.ticketcity.com!