Ticket costs are surging forward of Saturday’s SEC Championship between Georgia and Texas. The up to date price of entry was revealed Friday evening, lower than 24 hours earlier than kickoff.
The common ticket value is $700 for Saturday’s sport at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, in response to TickPick and Front Office Sports. At $252, the get-in value is greater than 1,500% greater than the $15 value for the Big Ten Championship at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Georgia and Texas will sq. off with a probable first-round bye within the College Football Playoff on the road. It’s a rematch of one of many largest video games of the common season when the Bulldogs went to Austin and defeated the Longhorns 30-15. That matchup turned the most-watched sport of the common season as greater than 13 million individuals tuned to ABC.
That’s a part of the anticipation for the SEC Championship, which will probably be a Top-5 showdown, as properly. Texas got here in at No. 2 within the penultimate College Football Playoff rankings whereas Georgia checked in at No. 8.
In that final showdown in the course of the common season, Steve Sarkisian notably benched Quinn Ewers as Texas struggled via the primary half. He then returned after halftime and led a fast surge earlier than Georgia pulled away for the victory.
But since that second, Sarkisian mentioned Ewers responded properly. In the method, it additionally looks like it lit a hearth beneath his quarterback.
“My purpose and my hope was that if something, it might’ve sparked him, the competitor in him to play much more charged than he had been and I believe it labored,” Sarkisian mentioned. “You’re simply at all times making an attempt to push the best buttons in gamers. And once more, ton of respect for Quinn and the job that he’s achieved for us not solely this season, however for 3 years and for him to, back-to-back seasons, get us again to a convention championship and greater than seemingly a possibility to play within the College Football Playoffs, I believe, is an incredible honor. And he deserves that. He’s been an amazing teammate and an amazing chief on this workforce.”
