Dramatic Decline in Demand For Tickets For the Meaningless SEC Title Game

Tickets are easy to come by. And they’re cheap, too.

"“We’ve actually seen a fairly dramatic decline in ticket prices to the game … within the last week,” said Will Flaherty, spokesman for SeatGeek.com, a ticket search aggregator. Flaherty said ticket prices have been dropping steadily since peaking at an average $463 on Nov. 20,  falling to an average of $135 on Wednesday. The most dramatic one-day drop — 25 percent — occurred between Saturday and Sunday after LSU and Georgia clinched spots in the title game, he said."

Georgia’s one of the biggest frauds of the college football season. It lost to Boise State and then South Carolina to start the year (one at a “neutral” site; the other in Athens), but has peeled off 10 straight. That streak sounds impressive, except they’ve beaten just two teams currently better than .500 (Auburn and Georgia Tech). Of all those 10 wins, guess how many of the teams are currently ranked? Zero. The only way the Bulldogs make this interesting is if LSU realizes it is already playing for the BCS title, and forgets to show up. I don’t see that happening. Put me down for 37-13, Tigers. [AJC]

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