ESPN did a list of the 5 most expensive tickets in College Football over the past 5 years. They are:

Georgia-Auburn 12-2-17 $784 (SEC championship)
Georgia-Alabama 12-2-18 $655 (SEC championship)
Georgia@Notre Dame 9-9-17 $619
Notre Dame@Georgia 9-21-19 $611
Alabama-FSU 9-2-17 $599 (Chik-fil-A kickoff in Atlanta)

4 of them involve the University of Georgia. The 5th was played in Atlanta.

Does Georgia have the biggest & wealthiest fanbase in CFB?

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...-ahead-sat

(09-17-2019 12:12 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  ESPN did a list of the 5 most expensive tickets in College Football over the past 5 years. They are:

Georgia-Auburn 12-2-17 $784 (SEC championship)
Georgia-Alabama 12-2-18 $655 (SEC championship)
Georgia@Notre Dame 9-9-17 $619
Notre Dame@Georgia 9-21-19 $611
Alabama-FSU 9-2-17 $599 (Chik-fil-A kickoff in Atlanta)

4 of them involve the University of Georgia. The 5th was played in Atlanta.

Does Georgia have the biggest & wealthiest fanbase in CFB?

Seven SEC teams, two Notre Dames, and FSU before their collapse.

Hard to believe that it was barely two years ago that FSU was still their same old powerful selves, ranked in the top 3, etc.

They've never recovered physically or psychologically from the Alabama beating.

It turns out Notre Dame is really popular and people love going to games in a brand new stadium in the capitol of college football.

I woulda thought that #3 Michigan @ #2 Ohio State in 2016 would have been up there. It was effectively a play-in game for the playoff.

Or maybe #1 Alabama at #6 Auburn in 2017.


I guess it's non-rivalries that actually generate the biggest fan interest.

(09-17-2019 12:55 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  I woulda thought that #3 Michigan @ #2 Ohio State in 2016 would have been up there. It was effectively a play-in game for the playoff.

Or maybe #1 Alabama at #6 Auburn in 2017.


I guess it's non-rivalries that actually generate the biggest fan interest.

Well Auburn / Georgia is the South's oldest remaining rivalry. It was once Auburn / Georgia Tech until we quit playing Tech annually after 1978.

(09-17-2019 12:55 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  I woulda thought that #3 Michigan @ #2 Ohio State in 2016 would have been up there. It was effectively a play-in game for the playoff.

Or maybe #1 Alabama at #6 Auburn in 2017.


I guess it's non-rivalries that actually generate the biggest fan interest.

Those games are included in most people's season tickets, so probably don't generate quite the increase in ticket sales like the CCG do.

The UGA/ND games have just been an anomaly

(09-17-2019 12:12 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  ESPN did a list of the 5 most expensive tickets in College Football over the past 5 years. They are:

Georgia-Auburn 12-2-17 $784 (SEC championship)
Georgia-Alabama 12-2-18 $655 (SEC championship)
Georgia@Notre Dame 9-9-17 $619
Notre Dame@Georgia 9-21-19 $611
Alabama-FSU 9-2-17 $599 (Chik-fil-A kickoff in Atlanta)

4 of them involve the University of Georgia. The 5th was played in Atlanta.

Does Georgia have the biggest & wealthiest fanbase in CFB?

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...-ahead-sat

I don’t know if Georgia (the school) is the biggest and most wealthiest fan base, but the Atlanta market itself has got to be the most valuable pound-for-pound market in college football. It’s the center of the SEC and ACC, has large brand name schools directly in-market (UGA and GT) and among the biggest brand names and fan bases within a relatively short drive (such as Alabama, Florida, Florida State, etc.), and there’s a lot of Northern transplants with Big Ten and (to a lesser extent) Big 12 ties. Atlanta is to college football as Chicago/Philly/Boston are to pro sports (the largest markets where any competitive pro team is selling out games and getting essentially all of the TV ratings share when they’re on).

(09-17-2019 02:23 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(09-17-2019 12:12 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  ESPN did a list of the 5 most expensive tickets in College Football over the past 5 years. They are:

Georgia-Auburn 12-2-17 $784 (SEC championship)
Georgia-Alabama 12-2-18 $655 (SEC championship)
Georgia@Notre Dame 9-9-17 $619
Notre Dame@Georgia 9-21-19 $611
Alabama-FSU 9-2-17 $599 (Chik-fil-A kickoff in Atlanta)

4 of them involve the University of Georgia. The 5th was played in Atlanta.

Does Georgia have the biggest & wealthiest fanbase in CFB?

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...-ahead-sat

I don’t know if Georgia (the school) is the biggest and most wealthiest fan base, but the Atlanta market itself has got to be the most valuable pound-for-pound market in college football. It’s the center of the SEC and ACC, has large brand name schools directly in-market (UGA and GT) and among the biggest brand names and fan bases within a relatively short drive (such as Alabama, Florida, Florida State, etc.), and there’s a lot of Northern transplants with Big Ten and (to a lesser extent) Big 12 ties. Atlanta is to college football as Chicago/Philly/Boston are to pro sports (the largest markets where any competitive pro team is selling out games and getting essentially all of the TV ratings share when they’re on).

Frank, Auburn is the third largest fan base in the Atlanta market, behind Georgia and Georgia Tech in that order.

(09-17-2019 03:26 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-17-2019 02:23 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(09-17-2019 12:12 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  ESPN did a list of the 5 most expensive tickets in College Football over the past 5 years. They are:

Georgia-Auburn 12-2-17 $784 (SEC championship)
Georgia-Alabama 12-2-18 $655 (SEC championship)
Georgia@Notre Dame 9-9-17 $619
Notre Dame@Georgia 9-21-19 $611
Alabama-FSU 9-2-17 $599 (Chik-fil-A kickoff in Atlanta)

4 of them involve the University of Georgia. The 5th was played in Atlanta.

Does Georgia have the biggest & wealthiest fanbase in CFB?

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...-ahead-sat

I don’t know if Georgia (the school) is the biggest and most wealthiest fan base, but the Atlanta market itself has got to be the most valuable pound-for-pound market in college football. It’s the center of the SEC and ACC, has large brand name schools directly in-market (UGA and GT) and among the biggest brand names and fan bases within a relatively short drive (such as Alabama, Florida, Florida State, etc.), and there’s a lot of Northern transplants with Big Ten and (to a lesser extent) Big 12 ties. Atlanta is to college football as Chicago/Philly/Boston are to pro sports (the largest markets where any competitive pro team is selling out games and getting essentially all of the TV ratings share when they’re on).

Frank, Auburn is the third largest fan base in the Atlanta market, behind Georgia and Georgia Tech in that order.

There was an article out there a few years ago that said it was Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, then Georgia Tech. It’s crazy Georgia Tech is number 4 in their own market. I’ve always wondered what Georgia Tech would look like today if they had stayed in the SEC?

(09-17-2019 03:44 PM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  

(09-17-2019 03:26 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-17-2019 02:23 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(09-17-2019 12:12 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  ESPN did a list of the 5 most expensive tickets in College Football over the past 5 years. They are:

Georgia-Auburn 12-2-17 $784 (SEC championship)
Georgia-Alabama 12-2-18 $655 (SEC championship)
Georgia@Notre Dame 9-9-17 $619
Notre Dame@Georgia 9-21-19 $611
Alabama-FSU 9-2-17 $599 (Chik-fil-A kickoff in Atlanta)

4 of them involve the University of Georgia. The 5th was played in Atlanta.

Does Georgia have the biggest & wealthiest fanbase in CFB?

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...-ahead-sat

I don’t know if Georgia (the school) is the biggest and most wealthiest fan base, but the Atlanta market itself has got to be the most valuable pound-for-pound market in college football. It’s the center of the SEC and ACC, has large brand name schools directly in-market (UGA and GT) and among the biggest brand names and fan bases within a relatively short drive (such as Alabama, Florida, Florida State, etc.), and there’s a lot of Northern transplants with Big Ten and (to a lesser extent) Big 12 ties. Atlanta is to college football as Chicago/Philly/Boston are to pro sports (the largest markets where any competitive pro team is selling out games and getting essentially all of the TV ratings share when they’re on).

Frank, Auburn is the third largest fan base in the Atlanta market, behind Georgia and Georgia Tech in that order.

There was an article out there a few years ago that said it was Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, then Georgia Tech. It’s crazy Georgia Tech is number 4 in their own market. I’ve always wondered what Georgia Tech would look like today if they had stayed in the SEC?

For that matter, if they had kept their non-engineering schools instead of spinning off a whole 'nuther college. Think of how much bigger their student body (and therefore, donor base) would be.

interesting looking at this-
Georgia-Auburn 12-2-17 $784 (SEC championship) drew 13.47 million viewers, #1 in 2017
Georgia-Alabama 12-2-18 $655 (SEC championship) drew 17.50 million viewers, #1 in 2018
Georgia@Notre Dame 9-9-17 $619 drew 4.088 million viewers, unranked
Notre Dame@Georgia 9-21-19 $611
Alabama-FSU 9-2-17 $599 (Chik-fil-A kickoff in Atlanta) drew 12.34 million viewers, #4 in 2017

(09-17-2019 03:44 PM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  

(09-17-2019 03:26 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-17-2019 02:23 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(09-17-2019 12:12 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  ESPN did a list of the 5 most expensive tickets in College Football over the past 5 years. They are:

Georgia-Auburn 12-2-17 $784 (SEC championship)
Georgia-Alabama 12-2-18 $655 (SEC championship)
Georgia@Notre Dame 9-9-17 $619
Notre Dame@Georgia 9-21-19 $611
Alabama-FSU 9-2-17 $599 (Chik-fil-A kickoff in Atlanta)

4 of them involve the University of Georgia. The 5th was played in Atlanta.

Does Georgia have the biggest & wealthiest fanbase in CFB?

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...-ahead-sat

I don’t know if Georgia (the school) is the biggest and most wealthiest fan base, but the Atlanta market itself has got to be the most valuable pound-for-pound market in college football. It’s the center of the SEC and ACC, has large brand name schools directly in-market (UGA and GT) and among the biggest brand names and fan bases within a relatively short drive (such as Alabama, Florida, Florida State, etc.), and there’s a lot of Northern transplants with Big Ten and (to a lesser extent) Big 12 ties. Atlanta is to college football as Chicago/Philly/Boston are to pro sports (the largest markets where any competitive pro team is selling out games and getting essentially all of the TV ratings share when they’re on).

Frank, Auburn is the third largest fan base in the Atlanta market, behind Georgia and Georgia Tech in that order.

There was an article out there a few years ago that said it was Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, then Georgia Tech. It’s crazy Georgia Tech is number 4 in their own market. I’ve always wondered what Georgia Tech would look like today if they had stayed in the SEC?

Atlanta is a transient city. Non-locals move in in droves but keep their original rooting interests. In addition, engineers are an exported profession. Not only are there not enough engineering jobs in ATL for the amount of engineers GT produces, but there aren't enough engineers in general in the country so they're aggressively recruited and hired away with incentive packages as soon as they get handed a sheep skin. This means GT won't dominate the ATL market unless they're playing really good. That's the nature of transplants and to some extent fans in general in a market where there's LOTS of competition: they're fickle. But it also means there's fairly deep pockets of GT support where they're completely overlooked. GT fans are all up and down the I-85 corridor in particular, but also the I-20 corridor. You'd probably be surprised how many NC State and Georgia Tech fans are in Greenville-Spartanburg for all the same engineering reasons listed above.

UGAg isn't the biggest or wealthiest fan base. These prices are reflective of UGAg being at their all time high water mark year over year. Tickets for the Iowa-ISU game last week were almost $500 .... I don't think anybody is going to proclaim those are CFB's Dallas Cowboys. Prices are more reflective of how good you're doing compared to how well you've typically done than they are underlying demand. You can drive up ticket prices anywhere in the country if you're playing at a high level consistently.

(09-17-2019 12:12 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  ESPN did a list of the 5 most expensive tickets in College Football over the past 5 years. They are:

Georgia-Auburn 12-2-17 $784 (SEC championship)
Georgia-Alabama 12-2-18 $655 (SEC championship)
Georgia@Notre Dame 9-9-17 $619
Notre Dame@Georgia 9-21-19 $611
Alabama-FSU 9-2-17 $599 (Chik-fil-A kickoff in Atlanta)

4 of them involve the University of Georgia. The 5th was played in Atlanta.

Does Georgia have the biggest & wealthiest fanbase in CFB?

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...-ahead-sat

I did #1. My wife did 1 and 2. Have a lot of friends did #3. We are not doing #4.

Its all those people who remember Herschel. Its been a long time since UGA has been that close again.

(09-17-2019 03:44 PM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  

(09-17-2019 03:26 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-17-2019 02:23 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(09-17-2019 12:12 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  ESPN did a list of the 5 most expensive tickets in College Football over the past 5 years. They are:

Georgia-Auburn 12-2-17 $784 (SEC championship)
Georgia-Alabama 12-2-18 $655 (SEC championship)
Georgia@Notre Dame 9-9-17 $619
Notre Dame@Georgia 9-21-19 $611
Alabama-FSU 9-2-17 $599 (Chik-fil-A kickoff in Atlanta)

4 of them involve the University of Georgia. The 5th was played in Atlanta.

Does Georgia have the biggest & wealthiest fanbase in CFB?

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...-ahead-sat

I don’t know if Georgia (the school) is the biggest and most wealthiest fan base, but the Atlanta market itself has got to be the most valuable pound-for-pound market in college football. It’s the center of the SEC and ACC, has large brand name schools directly in-market (UGA and GT) and among the biggest brand names and fan bases within a relatively short drive (such as Alabama, Florida, Florida State, etc.), and there’s a lot of Northern transplants with Big Ten and (to a lesser extent) Big 12 ties. Atlanta is to college football as Chicago/Philly/Boston are to pro sports (the largest markets where any competitive pro team is selling out games and getting essentially all of the TV ratings share when they’re on).

Frank, Auburn is the third largest fan base in the Atlanta market, behind Georgia and Georgia Tech in that order.

There was an article out there a few years ago that said it was Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, then Georgia Tech. It’s crazy Georgia Tech is number 4 in their own market. I’ve always wondered what Georgia Tech would look like today if they had stayed in the SEC?

After Georgia Tech, the closest school to UGA is---Clemson. Lots of Tigers from the east in Atlanta.

(09-17-2019 12:12 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  ESPN did a list of the 5 most expensive tickets in College Football over the past 5 years. They are:

Georgia-Auburn 12-2-17 $784 (SEC championship)
Georgia-Alabama 12-2-18 $655 (SEC championship)
Georgia@Notre Dame 9-9-17 $619
Notre Dame@Georgia 9-21-19 $611
Alabama-FSU 9-2-17 $599 (Chik-fil-A kickoff in Atlanta)

4 of them involve the University of Georgia. The 5th was played in Atlanta.

Does Georgia have the biggest & wealthiest fanbase in CFB?

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...-ahead-sat

Georgia has a large fan base that is willing to spend money. I don't know if they are the largest or richest, but they are willing to spend and travel. This list is more of a function of time and place. The Bulldogs are not only popular, but their team is playing for championships in this period of time. And, four of these five games were in the state of Georgia.

Georgia is not known for playing big-time schools outside the region in non-conference (until recent years). Saturday's game is the first non-conference game in Athens in over 50 years when both teams were ranked in the top 10. A home & home with Notre Dame is a huge deal for a school that is not a normal rival. ND's recent series with Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas had a similar dynamic. Georgia fans were also willing to travel to South Bend and buy tickets on the secondary market for the game there. Georgia doesn't play in South Bend every day, and the Irish don't travel to Athens every day.

The other three games on the list happened to be played in Atlanta. Atlanta is the epicenter of the college football universe. Georgia is the most popular team there. Alabama and Florida State happen to be nearby.

I'm surprised the 2017-18 CFP national championship game in Atlanta (Alabama vs Georgia) didn't make the list.

(09-17-2019 12:55 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  I woulda thought that #3 Michigan @ #2 Ohio State in 2016 would have been up there. It was effectively a play-in game for the playoff.

Or maybe #1 Alabama at #6 Auburn in 2017.


I guess it's non-rivalries that actually generate the biggest fan interest.

Those tickets probably weren't resold because they were more valuable to those that had them than money. Bama fans will buy Auburn season tickets for one game.

(09-17-2019 05:39 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(09-17-2019 03:44 PM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  

(09-17-2019 03:26 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-17-2019 02:23 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(09-17-2019 12:12 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  ESPN did a list of the 5 most expensive tickets in College Football over the past 5 years. They are:

Georgia-Auburn 12-2-17 $784 (SEC championship)
Georgia-Alabama 12-2-18 $655 (SEC championship)
Georgia@Notre Dame 9-9-17 $619
Notre Dame@Georgia 9-21-19 $611
Alabama-FSU 9-2-17 $599 (Chik-fil-A kickoff in Atlanta)

4 of them involve the University of Georgia. The 5th was played in Atlanta.

Does Georgia have the biggest & wealthiest fanbase in CFB?

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...-ahead-sat

I don’t know if Georgia (the school) is the biggest and most wealthiest fan base, but the Atlanta market itself has got to be the most valuable pound-for-pound market in college football. It’s the center of the SEC and ACC, has large brand name schools directly in-market (UGA and GT) and among the biggest brand names and fan bases within a relatively short drive (such as Alabama, Florida, Florida State, etc.), and there’s a lot of Northern transplants with Big Ten and (to a lesser extent) Big 12 ties. Atlanta is to college football as Chicago/Philly/Boston are to pro sports (the largest markets where any competitive pro team is selling out games and getting essentially all of the TV ratings share when they’re on).

Frank, Auburn is the third largest fan base in the Atlanta market, behind Georgia and Georgia Tech in that order.

There was an article out there a few years ago that said it was Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, then Georgia Tech. It’s crazy Georgia Tech is number 4 in their own market. I’ve always wondered what Georgia Tech would look like today if they had stayed in the SEC?

For that matter, if they had kept their non-engineering schools instead of spinning off a whole 'nuther college. Think of how much bigger their student body (and therefore, donor base) would be.

That school that was spun off ended up merging with UGA, then splitting off, then getting a lot of state funding from the 70s through the 90s under a very different mandate than Georgia Tech. It became Georgia State.

Would state legislators have given all that extra money to Georgia Tech if Georgia State had never spun off? Doubtful. Just as likely that it would have gone to UGA or another school.

Would Georgia Tech have lowered their admission standards to admit more than the top 10% of Georgia State students? Even more doubtful.

(09-17-2019 01:43 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-17-2019 12:55 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  I woulda thought that #3 Michigan @ #2 Ohio State in 2016 would have been up there. It was effectively a play-in game for the playoff.

Or maybe #1 Alabama at #6 Auburn in 2017.


I guess it's non-rivalries that actually generate the biggest fan interest.

Well Auburn / Georgia is the South's oldest remaining rivalry. It was once Auburn / Georgia Tech until we quit playing Tech annually after 1978.

Ahem....the South's oldest rivalry is UVA / Carolina.

Your game is referred to as the DEEP South's oldest rivalry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%27s_Oldest_Rivalry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%27s_...biguation)

The South's Oldest Rivalry may refer to:

South's Oldest Rivalry, the football game between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Virginia
Deep South's Oldest Rivalry, the football game between Auburn University and the University of Georgia
Capital Cup, the football game between the College of William and Mary and the University of Richmond
Oldest Small College Rivalry in the South, the football game between Wofford College and Furman University, dating to 1889.