ESPN: Georgia fans driving up ticket prices for title match against Bama

per ESPN:

So many Georgia fans were looking for title game tickets in the moments after the Bulldogs' 54-48 Rose Bowl win over Oklahoma that StubHub's page listing tickets to the Jan. 8 championship crashed for more than 30 minutes on Monday night.

When the page started working again, the cheapest seat to the game, which will be played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, was $2,480.

The high sale on StubHub was $104,457, which is what someone paid for 10 seats, including all fees, on the 50-yard line on the Alabama side.

On the site of StubHub's competitor, Vivid Seats, the average paid price for a ticket jumped 37 percent after the Bulldogs clinched a spot, a company spokesman said. Before Georgia's win, the average paid price for a ticket to the title game was $2,218. After the Bulldogs defeated Oklahoma, the average paid price has been $3,037.

Vivid Seats' average ticket sale for the game, as of 9 a.m. ET on Tuesday, was $2,733.

StubHub's average paid price on its site through Tuesday morning was $2,243. If that price holds, it will be one of the most expensive title games ever, topping the 2013 BCS title game between Alabama and Notre Dame by more than $600 a ticket ($1,640).

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Go Gophers!!

That new average ticket price is more than the monthly take home pay for the average Alabama household.

Can you imagine trying to support your home team with a 16 team playoff? If successful and you make it to the finals, you would pay a fortune plus time off of work more than likely.

Hasn't regular season attendance drop across all conferences each year? Sooner or later fans are going to be exhausted financially if the ticket prices continue to skyrocket. Then, you have championship pricing up the roof.

If we have an eight or sixteen team playoffs, image how many of those bowls will be half empty. Sooner or later, fans are only going to say "no mas!" by being over-bowled.

Fools, I say.

I can watch it at home for free.

hungan1 said:

Hasn't regular season attendance drop across all conferences each year? Sooner or later fans are going to be exhausted financially if the ticket prices continue to skyrocket. Then, you have championship pricing up the roof.

If we have an eight or sixteen team playoffs, image how many of those bowls will be half empty. Sooner or later, fans are only going to say "no mas!" by being over-bowled.

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The fact prices are going up is a function of the demand, not the lack of demand