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Originally Posted by Wickedson
Are there Mizzou fans that don't work and camp out for weeks at a time in the team's parking lot before a game?
Cause from what I heard people in the SEC actually do that.
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Weeks? No. That wouldn't really make much sense, now would it? They would be missing games in order to camp out for games...but they take it pretty seriously.
Baton Rouge -- If fans are wishing to go to what might be the most-hyped game in college football's regular season, they're going to need to empty their wallet -- and maybe part of their savings.
les_miles_tigers.jpgScott Threlkeld/The Times-PicayuneThe LSU football team takes on Alabama in the biggest game of the college football season.
No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama will clash Nov. 5 in a game that may decide one representative in the BCS Championship game.
With a little less than a week and a half remaining until game time, and with the buzz growing louder as the game approaches, ticket prices are going through the roof. The cheapest ticket on ticket website Stubhub.com -- at a spot in the upper bowl of Alabama's Bryant Denny stadium -- is going for $389. The ticket retails for $70.
Meanwhile, tickets in the lower level of the North end zone are priced as high as $5,000.
In comparison, tickets for the 2011 SEC Championship game in Atlanta on Dec. 3, are available on Stubhub.com for as little as $363, with the most expensive ticket costing $1,500.
Using the same site, tickets for Game 6 of the World Series between the Cardinals and the Rangers start at $270 for standing-room-only spots.
LSU Coach Les Miles was his usual, joker self when asked what he was going to do with his allotment of tickets for LSU's most glorified regular-season matchup in recent memory.
"I am out of the ticket business. I married my wife, I got out of the ticket business," Miles said. "She is responsible. All I say to anybody that calls me at any point in time about any game is, 'Yeah, absolutely.' Then say to (my assistant or my wife), 'Can we do that?' and not worry about it."
Miles has a sideline view of the game, but fans looking to get into the stadium had to plan in advance.
The LSU ticket office said they dispersed the allotment of 7,000 tickets to season-ticket holders and students in July, and fans now are having a tough time trying to make a late purchase.
"If I was really looking for one now, I probably wouldn't be able to get one," said Panay Burland, a kindergarten teacher and Alabama alumna.
Burland is making the trek from Baton Rouge to Tuscaloosa to root for her hometown team. As a Bama fan in Tigerland, Burland is relishing the opportunity to go home and cheer on the Tide.
Luckily for Burland, her friends in Tuscaloosa were able to reserve a ticket for her before the hype machine took over. Burland said she still would have gone to Tuscaloosa, even if she wasn't able to find a ticket.
Many LSU fans are doing just that.
David Burford, a senior at LSU, is making the trip to Tuscaloosa without a ticket. While he said he has made trips to football games without a ticket before, he isn't sure it's going to work out for him this time. Burford is hoping to score a ticket for well below the asking price of ticket websites.
"I've done it before, but never for something this big," Burford said. "I've done it for some not as high profile games and concerts. I don't really know if I'll be able to get a ticket, but if not, I'll watch the game at a bar."