Want tickets to the Georgia-Alabama title game? Expect sticker-shock prices

Fans can expect sticker shock for tickets to the national championship college football game between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Alabama Crimson Tide.

Prices soared immediately after the thriller Rose Bowl game, when No. 3 ranked Georgia came back to defeat the No. 2-ranked Oklahoma Sooners 54-48 in double overtime Monday night.

Prices continue to remain high Tuesday afternoon in advance of the Jan. 8 title game.

The lowest priced tickets were hovering around $2,000 each on several secondary ticket marketing sites. The cheapest tickets on fan-to-fan exchange on Ticketmaster were $2,000-plus.

Additionally, one site listed a suite of 22 tickets for about $94,000.

Tickets are expected to remain high because of the closeness of the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta to the two teams. Athens is only about 70 miles from Atlanta, and Tuscaloosa is just a three-hour drive for No. 4-ranked Alabama's large fan base.

StubHub had tickets for about $2,000 Tuesday, but many of them were upper-level seats. One listing was for two lower sideline seats — for $25,000.

VividSeats reported in a Tuesday afternoon email to The Telegraph that since Georgia won the Rose Bowl, the average ticket price for the title game had jumped 37 percent to $3,037. Earlier in the day, tickets were available for just over $1,900, although there were 50-yard-line tickets for more than $13,000 apiece.

This story was originally published January 2, 2018 at 12:06 PM with the headline "Want tickets to the Georgia-Alabama title game? Expect sticker-shock prices."