Two UT Games Among College Football's Hottest Tickets

Austin ticket broker TicketCity.com has published a list of the top 25 hottest college football games of 2007, based on the average price per ticket, and two University of Texas games are on the list.

The Longhorns' game with Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on October 6 is currently #8 (average ticket price $555), while the November 23 game with Texas A&M in College Station is #18 ($402). The face value of a Texas-OU ticket is $95, and the face value of a Texas-Texas A&M ticket is $90.

Notre Dame dominates the list, with four Fighting Irish games among top top five hottest tickets, including the #1 spot for their game against Penn State, with an average ticket price of $1,100. The top five hottest games are:

• Penn State vs Notre Dame ($1,100)
• Michigan vs Ohio State ($1,000)
• Notre Dame vs USC ($950)
• Michigan vs Notre Dame ($696)
• Notre Dame vs Boston College ($661)

“Demand for Penn State versus Notre Dame is as high as we’ve seen for any game in the past few years,” said TicketCity CEO Randy Cohen. “There will be 100K plus people in there on game day to see one of the greatest match-ups this decade. Many of those fans will be turning to brokers to find those hard to get tickets.”

Most of the games on the list are traditional rivalry games, such as Florida-Florida State, Auburn-Alabama and Florida-Georgia.

“The rivalry games are big every year,” said TicketCity.com Vice President Zach Anderson. “Once you’ve been to them one time, you never want to miss it again. We have clients who buy their Red River Shootout (TX/OU) and Iron Bowl (Auburn/Bama) tickets from us every year. For them, nothing else matters other than making sure they are in that stadium for kick off.”

The list was accumulated by compiling a majority of the available tickets from ticket brokers across the country, along with fans listing extra tickets to sell.

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