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Heather Dinich shares her takeaways from the archetypal College Football Playoff ranking of the season. (1:12)

Nov 3, 2022

  • Mark SchlabachESPN Senior Writer

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    • Senior assemblage shot writer
    • Author of 7 books connected assemblage football
    • Graduate of the University of Georgia

About the lone happening hotter than tickets for Saturday's showdown betwixt the No. 1 Tennessee Volunteers and the No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs is the $1.5 cardinal Powerball lottery.

According to Vivid Seats, the existent "get-in" terms -- the cheapest summons inactive disposable -- for Saturday's crippled astatine Sanford Stadium successful Athens, Georgia, is $568, portion seats connected the 50-yard enactment are going for much than $3,200.

The mean summons terms for the crippled is $398, which is much than treble the mean terms for tickets ($136) to past year's crippled betwixt the teams, which Georgia won 41-17, astatine Neyland Stadium, en way to winning its archetypal nationalist title successful 41 years. It's besides much than each NFL crippled this week.

According to Vivid Seats, the median listed terms for tickets to this crippled has accrued 156% implicit the people of the season. The victor of Saturday's crippled volition person the wrong way to winning the SEC East and playing successful the SEC title game. Both teams are among the apical contenders to scope the College Football Playoff.

Saturday we request Dawg Nation to impact the crippled !! If you tin speech erstwhile you leave, you didn't outcry capable !!

— Coach Kirby Smart (@KirbySmartUGA) October 30, 2022

Over the past 5 seasons, lone 1 different Georgia crippled -- a Sept. 21, 2019, location crippled against Notre Dame -- was a much costly ticket. The mean summons terms for that contention was $540. The Bulldogs defeated the Fighting Irish 23-17 successful beforehand of a assemblage of much than 93,000 fans betwixt the hedges.

"I cognize our instrumentality basal volition beryllium large and proud," Bulldogs manager Kirby Smart said earlier this week. "Everybody talks astir the Notre Dame game, but we privation to beryllium louder than that. We privation to beryllium determination earlier than that. We had immoderate large matchups past twelvemonth present astatine home, and I thought [the fans] truly affected the crippled each clip we had a large matchup. So we'll request them again and we'll beryllium acceptable to go."

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