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A family outing to a SEC home opener cost $160 per person, USA TODAY Sports study finds

If a family of four wanted to make a weekend of an SEC team’s home opener, it could run them about $160 per person, a USA Today study found.

A USA TODAY Sports study published Monday said a family of four who wanted to attend a home opener for an SEC team would spend an average of $643.47, or about $160.87 per person.

The math included four tickets bought on the resale website TicketSmarter.com the Monday before the game. The study also factored in the cheapest public parking within a mile of the stadium, four hot dogs, and four sodas.

The cheapest combined costs were found at Vanderbilt, which only totaled $259.49 (about $64.87 per person). Arkansas and Mississippi State were both under $350 as well. Georgia and Tennessee both surpassed $1,000 for total expenses calculated, with the Volunteers coming in at $1,256.73 (about $314.18 per person).

The combined costs of parking, food, and beverage averaged out to about $71 per stadium, with Missouri being the cheapest at just $40.

The full results of the study can be found here.

Camping World Bowl Sold Out

Congratulations to the Notre Dame athletic department as it has now sold out more consecutive bowl games than it has home football games.

 

We mentioned earlier this month when Iowa State was announced as Notre Dame’s opponent in the Camping World Bowl that one of the reasons they were chosen over other 6-3 in conference Big XII teams that beat them head-to-head was because their fan base will travel with the best of them.

Only a few days after tickets went on sale it was announced by Iowa State’s athletic director that Cyclones fans had bought all of their allotted tickets for the game.

Well, now all the tickets to Saturday’s game are spoken for.

At least on the initial market.

So there you go, for the first time since Notre Dame played Florida State in the then-Champs Sports Bowl and for now just the second time ever, the Camping World Bowl has sold out.

Congrats to the bowl for picking Iowa State and rewarding a fan-base that travels to support it’s squad.

Also congratulations to the Notre Dame athletic department as it has now sold out more consecutive bowl games than it has home football games.

Rivalry week: How UGA vs Georgia Tech ticket prices stack up to the rest of CFB

A look at UGA vs Georgia Tech ticket prices compared to the rest of college football this rivalry week. Plus looking the SEC Championship.

It’s the final weekend of the college football regular season. Wow…how sad is that?

Very sad is the answer to that question, but on the bright side we are in for a good day of college football.

Alabama vs Auburn and Ohio State vs Michigan headline what will be an exciting Saturday. Additionally, fans will also be able to enjoy a ranked matchup between Wisconsin and Minnesota plus Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.

With the Dawgs playing LSU in the SEC Championship the following weekend, I’m looking forward to watching how the Tigers handle Texas A&M, which Georgia struggled against last weekend.

Speaking of the SEC Championship, currently, the get-in price for the conference title game is $341 and the average is now $995. The get-in price has only dropped just over 2% in the last week, but the average list price has gone down 23% over that same time frame. I’d be curious to see what would happen to those prices if LSU were to lose this weekend seeing as how it would then be a win-or-go-home battle for both teams.

Click here to view tickets to the SEC Championship.

As for this weekend, Georgia fans’ wallets will get a bit of a break if they want to see the Dawgs take on Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Currently, Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate is the weekend’s ninth most expensive game, with a get-in price of $98. For Georgia fans, that’s not too bad; for Tech fans, this is the Yellow Jackets’s most expensive game of the season.

Click here for Georgia vs Georgia Tech tickets.

Minnesota at Wisconsin claims the title of most expensive ticket this weekend with tickets starting $257, followed by the Iron Bowl at $165.