Clemson ranked #3 for hotel price hikes on Gameday

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With college football season just a few short days away, hotels around the country are gearing up to host fans — but are they also hiking up their prices? Hotel search trivago.com partnered with Vivid Seats, the nation’s largest independent ticket marketplace for live events, to see which fans of the Top 25 Associated Press ranked teams could pay the most to sit in the stands at home games in 2015. As seen in the table above, which shows an analysis of the average 2014 nightly hotel rates for home game weekends and the 2015 median price for home game tickets, trivago and Vivid Seats’ data gives the best overview of just how much supporting a squad could cost fans this season.

Home Game vs. Non-Game Weekend Hotel Price Increases

Florida State Seminoles (#10) Tallahassee, FL $104 $221 113%

Alabama Crimson Tide (#3) Tuscaloosa, AL $112 $234 109%

Clemson Tigers (#12) Clemson, SC $105 $217 107%

Auburn Tigers (#6) Auburn, AL $102 $197 93%

Notre Dame Fighting Irish (#11) South Bend, IN $115 $214 87%

Baylor Bears (#4) Waco, TX $102 $180 76%

Ole Miss Rebels (#17) Oxford, MS $134 $237 76%

Georgia Bulldogs (#9) Athens, GA $112 $190 70%

Oklahoma Sooners (#19) Norman, OK $108 $160 49%

Michigan State Spartans (#5) East Lansing, MI $128 $180 41%

Tennessee Volunteers (#25) Knoxville, TN $95 $125 32%

Oregon Ducks (#7) Eugene, OR $103 $134 31%

Missouri Tigers (#24) Columbia, MO $116 $146 27%

Arkansas Razorbacks (#18) Fayetteville, AR $117 $148 26%

LSU Tigers (#14) Baton Rouge, LA $111 $137 23%

Stanford Cardinal (#21) Palo Alto, CA $178 $218 23%

Wisconsin Badgers (#20) Madison, WI $136 $154 13%

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (#16) Atlanta, GA $136 $148 9%

Arizona State Sun Devils (#15) Tempe, AZ $101 $108 7%

Arizona Wildcats (#22) Tucson, AZ $104 $109 5%

Ohio State Buckeyes (#1) Columbus, OH $126 $131 4%

TCU Horned Frogs (#2) Fort Worth, TX $121 $123 2%

UCLA Bruins (#13) Los Angeles, CA $185 $185 0%

USC Trojans (#8) Los Angeles, CA $185 $185 0%

Boise State Broncos (#23) Boise, ID $105 $102 -2%

*Average hotel prices based on available 2014 trivago.com data for regular season play. Weekend refers to Friday and Saturday for both game and non-game prices, with occasional weekday night games included in game weekend prices. Non-game weekend refers to weekends in college city where the team is playing an away game.

* Tallahassee, Tuscaloosa, and Clemson saw the largest hikes in hotel prices, and fans this season could see hotel prices double for home game weekends

* AP ranked #1 Buckeyes and #2 Horned Frogs have some of the lowest hotel price hikes, with both seeing less than a 5% difference between weekends

* Hotels in Boise are actually cheaper when the Broncos play at home, saving fans a few bucks

"It's not uncommon to see hotel price spikes during college football season, especially considering many of the teams analyzed are located in smaller, more remote cities and towns that often lack adequate accommodation for major events and large crowds,” says Jeremy Crider, US Public Relations for trivago.com. “Booking a room well in advance of the season is the best way to avoid paying astronomical rates."