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The price for tickets to Saturday's tilt between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the LSU Tigers is easily the most expensive of the year but have leveled off a bit from a peak last week.
SB Nation's ticket partner TiqIQ put the top figure at $740.23 on Oct. 22. FanSnap, a search engine service that collects data from various online ticket resale websites, prices peaked last Wednesday at $804. FanSnap says they tallied a total of about 3,000 online offers to derive their figure, TiqIQ reports using about half that.
(Also, friend of RBR Wayne Grayson penned a great story on this over the weekend for The Tuscaloosa News.)
Officials with both TiqIQ and Fansnap say they expect prices to continue trending downward until gametime. The tickets have a $70 face value. Last year's LSU vs Bama contest in Baton Rouge had an average price of $385.
While the two ticket services vary on what 2010 regular season contest last season demanded the highest prices, they concur Saturday's game in Bryant-Denny Stadium has blown it out of the water.
FanSnap says the priciest ticket last year was the Army vs. Notre Dame tilt in the new Yankee Stadium that demanded an average price of $583 at one point. TiqIQ reported that the $423 average price for the Ohio State vs Michigan contest was the most expensive game of the 2010 season.
Two weeks ago we used the FanSnap numbers to list the the Top 20 average ticket resale prices for college football games this season. You'll find that same list current through Oct. 31 after the jump.
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Games listed in italics have already been played. Info provided by FanSnap.