As we reach the 8-hour mark before kickoff of Monday's College Football Playoff National Championship Game, it's still going to take quite an investment to get inside Mercedes Benz Stadium to see Alabama vs. Georgia.

The match-up between SEC rivals (with Georgia a virtual home team) is among the toughest tickets in the history of college sports, according to analysts on the secondary market. If you don't have tickets already, be prepared to pay quite a bit.

Jesse Lawrence of TicketIQ.com tells AL.com via email that Alabama vs. Georgia is "the most expensive title game we've ever tracked." Roughly 2,000 of 75,000 tickets remained on the secondary market as of Monday morning, Lawrence said.

TicketIQ reports that the "get-in price" for this year's national championship game -- that is, the minimum cost you must pay to attend the game -- is the highest since the site began tracking such information in 2011. This year's "get-in" price is $2,009, up sharply from $1,737 last year (Alabama vs. Clemson in Tampa).

On StubHub.com, the lowest-priced ticket was $1,420 for one seat in the 300 (upper) level corner. Lower-level seats cost up to $25,000, with seats along the sideline starting at $1,849.

On VividSeats.com, the lowest-priced ticket was $1,369 (Section 350), with the highest-priced $4,048 (Section 150). Tickets to the VIP Pre-game Hospitality room were on sale for $296.

SeatGeek.com had tickets ranging from $1,600 (Section 329) to $10,100 (Section 104). One enterprising seller was asking $11,900 for seats in Section 312.

ScoreBig.com had tickets ranging from $,1383 (Section 347) to $6,068 (Section 208). Tickets to the VIP Pre-game Hospitality room cost "only" $91.

On TicketIQ.com, the lowest-priced tickets are $1,780 (Section 338). The most-expensive are $5,518 (unspecified section in "lower club).

TicketIQ reports that its site is seeing four times the traffic from Georgia fans as from Alabama fans. Priceline.com, a partner of Ticket IQ, reports an 80 percent jump in hotel room searches in Atlanta from within the state, as opposed to only a 20 percent jump among Alabamians.

According to StubHub, the most expensive ticket sold was $94,000 for a suite, with one buyer paying $12,000 for seats in the 100 level. The least expensive ticket sold on StubHub went for $750.

Ticket demand is up 118 percent from this time last year, according to StubHub. Nearly 50 percent of the tickets (49.9 percent) have been bought by Georgia residents; just 4.8 percent by Alabamians.

The National Association of Ticket Brokers warned consumers to be on the lookout for counterfeit tickets. The NATB maintains a list of "trusted sellers" for the city of Atlanta, as well as other locales.