Georgia-Tennessee ‘hottest ticket’ of 2022 football season

ATHENS – Don’t have a ticket to Saturday’s Georgia-Tennessee but still want to go?

Prepare to pay through the nose, as the saying goes.

The get-in price on the eve of the biggest game ever played in 93-year-old Sanford Stadium is $568, according to VividSeats.com. Want a couple on the 50-yard line? Those could run you as much as $3,200, the third-party ticket distributor reports.

Prices to attend Saturday’s 3:30 p.m. game have increased 156% over the course of the season. Tennessee was picked to finish third in the SEC East – behind Georgia and Kentucky – at SEC Media Days in Atlanta this summer. Instead, the Volunteers (8-0, 4-0 SEC) arrive at Sanford Stadium undefeated and ranked No. 1 in the first College Football Playoff rankings released earlier this week. Georgia (8-0, 5-0) was third in that ranking, but remains No. 1 in both the Associated Press and USA Today coaches’ polls.

The Bulldogs have won five games in a row over Tennessee and remain a 8.5-point favorite to win Saturday, according to VegasInsideder.com.

Some other fun facts:

• The ticket prices for Saturday are more than double what they were when Georgia played at Neyland Stadium last year. The Bulldogs won that game 41-17.
• The average price of $568 is more than any NFL game being played this weekend.
• The “hottest ticket” of week for Vivid Seats is a pair to Georgia-Tennessee for $398 each; Clemson at Notre Dame for $293 is next on the list, followed by Alabama at LSU for $277.
• The previous “hottest ticket” for a Georgia-Tennessee game was $220 to attend limited-capacity game of 2020 at Sanford Stadium.
• The greatest demand in recent history for a ticket to a Georgia home game was $540 to attend the 2019 Notre Dame contest. The Bulldogs expanded capacity by 500 seats to 93,246 for that contest.