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Part of the Alabama student section is a sea of shakers during the Ole Miss game at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. (Mark Almond/malmond@al.com)

-- With close to 24 hours until Saturday's 11:21 a.m. kickoff, a few hundred seats remain unfilled for Alabama's homecoming game against Georgia State.

Tickets are available in 13 sections,

. Of the 13, six only have single seats vacant while most of the remaining spots are located in the back rows of the respective sections.

There's a reason why Alabama has had a few more tickets to sell for this particular game.

, the Panthers returned 2,014 of the 3,000 they were allotted for the game.

By comparison, Colorado State sold 1,500 tickets to its fans for last month's home opener at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

Alabama sold out its first two games of the season. Alabama's 49-0 victory over Western Carolina last year was the first non-sellout of the

Nick Saban

era.

On his radio show Thursday, Saban implored fans to provide a similar atmosphere for Saturday's game as it did the previous week against Ole Miss.

"It's important that we build on that momentum," Saban said. "I know nobody's probably excited about this game and the opponent that we're playing. Forget about that. I'm asking our team to play to a standard, compete to a standard.

"it doesn't matter who the competition is or what the score is and I think we need to do the same thing to continue to build momentum as a team, which includes our fans and everybody that's involved with our team."