My 2026-27 basketball season tickets only went up $35 each, from $865 to $900. Not bad at all.
When I saw the 2026 football season ticket prices I was shocked, my current seats are $175 less than 2025. Yes they lowered the price. I sit in section 127 and the total for each season ticket went from $725 in 2025 to $550 in 2026.
So my total season ticket purchases for football and basketball next year went from $3180 to $2900. What a pleasant surprise.
Mike - where did you see the football season ticket prices?
They sent out emails or you can go to the UH athletic site and right under the report on tonightās basketball game.
University of Houston Athletics - Official Athletics Website
I am tired of ppl complaining about ticket prices. As it is we cannot raise a dime and then on top of that ppl complain about ticket prices. You cannot make this up and the same folks will crib when we start losing games. Let us make this easy - we donāt have to compete and make the ticket prices dirt cheap and nobody shows up and then you can have your $20 tickets and enjoy.
Thanks Mike. I clicked on the link in the email and found my seats pricing.
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I am tired of ppl complaining about ticket prices. As it is we cannot raise a dime and then on top of that ppl complain about ticket prices.
Totally agree. I have a golf buddy that has A$M football season tickets at Kyle field for like 30 years. Had 40 yard line seats, lower bowel row 30. Was told a few years ago he had to double his annual donation (was close to $15,000 at the time) to keep seats, or for same donation, move down to row 12 on 10 yard line. Like a dumb Aggie he moved his seats and now complains the view of the game is not very good DUH!! Point is - big time college sports is a business that has to make $$$. If U of H is going to continue to grow our major sports than price increases are in the cards. Pony up guys.
This is my situation where I have been put in a place where I have to choose between football or basketball. I actually have 5 tickets for football which need for the family to go. I have only had 3 tickets for basketball. There have been two seats next to my three in basketball that are sold someone else but they are always no show. I know becasue I checked into them attempt to get them, but with jump these past two years I can now not only purchase the additional two but cant afford the three. The price is not worth it now to pay this much for just 3 tickets basketball which is noticeably higher than I pay for 5 football tickets.
This is what I was warning against that UH needs to understand we have a small hardcore fanbase. We have reached a point in rasing prices on football and basketball that it is going to make the passionate fans have to choose between football or basketball. UH is so money focused on maximizing revenue on the small passionate season ticket holder fanbase that they are going to start portioning that fanbase up to only be able to afford either football or basketball. They want to grow foootball which they have not done great at continually increasing prices while also continually raising prices on basketball too.
Why would people complain about an overall decrease in prices when football and basketball are combined. Like I said, I was pleasantly surprised. I was expecting an increase in both.
We have a cheap fanbase, where do yall think the eat at 7-11 jokes and such came from, not traveling well, not spending money, itās our albatross and we need to change the narrative and support football
racism. at least that is where it came from.
For all the griping about prices, UH does a reasonable job to manage costs. I believe the ticket cost is split for seat cost and donation for accounting and reporting purposes. The seat cost goes towards the Athletic Department operating budget (facilities, salaries, etcā¦) and the donation goes towards Athletic scholarships.
Moving to the B12 and recent changes within the NCAA, specifically pertaining to changes to scholarship limits, is driving the cost increase.
The chart below shows my per seat cost break down for the 2023 seasons vs the upcoming renewals. 99% of my total cost increase is to support scholarships.
| Football | Basketball | Total Cost | Cumulative | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat | Donation | Seat | Donation | Football | Basketball | Total | Seats | Donation | |
| 2023 | $350 | $375 | $342 | $144 | $725 | $486 | $1,211 | $692 | $519 |
| 2026 | $300 | $450 | $400 | $350 | $750 | $750 | $1,500 | $700 | $800 |
| Net Increase | -14% | 20% | 17% | 143% | 3% | 54% | 24% | 1% | 54% |
| Annualized | -4.5% | 6.5% | 5.4% | 34.5% | 1.0% | 15.5% | 7.5% | 0.0% | 15.5% |
Its imperfect analysis as the cost splits may have been different for years in between and other seating areas may have different impacts.
I would renew basketball if I were you.
You can sell some of the big games or find a seat partner that will chip in as you wonāt make some of the games.
*could have, not could of. That makes no sense. Also, a question mark after tone deaf, not a period.
Maybe renew then sell some or sell half so you can still go to some games. If you opt out then it might be tough to get back in.
I understand if you canāt bc of budget
If you renew and sell all 3 for one of the ābig gamesā you will recoup a lot of the expense ā¦need to be more creative ā¦donāt give up everythingā¦there is a way
Those crappy seats cost a lot. 
I know, but I just couldnāt pass it up. I swing at those soft pitches right over the plate every time.
I can empathize with your situation. I had a daughter three years ago and daycare in the Heights is about $20k a year. I had to make a difficult choice in selling a couple hot game tickets for basketball so I could recoup some of my season tickets cost.
I sold the Bama game in ā22 and the KU game in ā23-24. Not easy choices, but it had to be done.
If you really are passionate about being a UH fan, then get creative and figure out a way to make it happen by splitting the cost and games with someone, or biting the bullet and selling off a couple of big conference games. Throwing your hands up and tapping out because it gets too expensive isnāt the way I define a āpassionateā fan.
Demand is high, so prices are going to increase. Thrilled that the bump this year is minor compared to years prior.
For the club area (yellow on that map), is it really only $1700/ticket all in? Or is there some other donation amount required that isnāt on that PDF? And, when tickets open up in that area, how does the ticket office determine who can grab them? For a few years now Iāve been asking my rep how to go about upgrading my seats and Iām always told thereās no opportunity for that because of the waitlist. But that makes no sense. Shouldnāt existing season ticket holders be given an opportunity to upgrade before waitlist people are offered a chance to buy in? Itās not like my upgrade would be taking away a waitlist opportunity.
I think it was 10k donation on top for club seats when I checked last time.
Dang! Sure would be nice to include that little tidbit!
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