"College football isn’t only an obsession, it’s a lifestyle, and now apparently a business."

Michigan v. Utah Football Tickets from $1.

No, you didn’t read wrong- the tickets for the University of Michigan’s first game of the football season retail at these seemingly dirt-cheap prices.

Obviously, they can’t be bought at your on-campus Athletic Ticket Office (if they did, there would be a line comparable to those at an Apple store during Christmas). The above-priced tickets were listed on the genius social networking site that is Facebook, where they can sell anywhere from $1 to the whopping price of $300.

Of course, this usually operates on an auction system where the ticket goes to the highest bidder. Hence, tickets never actually sell for $1. It also depends on who’s playing whom. University of Michigan students are willing to pay up to $300 for the home team versus Michigan State University, their longtime rival. But even for the games that foster less competitive spirit, such as the Michigan versus Toledo game, can sell for $40 online.

And this phenomenon is not restricted to a single college town, but is happening all across the country as football-crazed Americans become more and more desperate to get their hands on a ticket as the game day draws nearer. College football isn’t only an obsession, it’s a lifestyle, and now apparently a business.

Enterprising college students have cottoned on to the fact that buying and selling tickets is a viable business and an easy way to make money on the side while cramming for midterms and balancing a social life without having to actually work for money. I know friends, and friends of friends, who specifically buy the season pass just to sell them for a tidy profit.