Gas from Baton Rouge to Tuscaloosa: $60.
Hotel in Tuscaloosa, Ala., for two nights: $250.
Lower level ticket to the game: $1,000.
Watching No. 1 LSU battle No. 2 Alabama: Priceless?
With one of the most hyped regular season college football games in years just around the corner, fans are emptying their wallets to witness the action.
Will Flaherty, director of communications for SeatGeek.com, a ticket search engine that pulls together listings from all major secondary ticket sites, called ticket prices for Saturday’s showdown “record-setting” and said the average price of tickets sold within the last week is more than $600 each.
“In our database, we’ve been tracking this for at least two years now, and we have not seen a regular season college football game demanding these types of prices,” said Flaherty. “If you go back to early September, the average ticket sold was around $370. Over the course of the season … these teams got on a collision course, and the prices jumped did.”
For those still holding out for a chance to get to the game, Flaherty said ticket prices will diminish as the game approaches.
“What generally happens is the price will run up until that week,” Flaherty said. “Then as ticket sellers still have their tickets on the market, they realize that they may not be able to sell for that price, and they start coming down a little