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The College Football Playoff hits the big time as it transitions from first-round games on campus to the quarterfinals and major bowl games. For Georgia, it’s a familiar scene. The Bulldogs haven’t lost a bowl game in six years. That’s not the case for Notre Dame, which hasn’t won a major bowl game since 1994 at the Cotton Bowl, well before the advent of the BCS and later the CFP.
Is this Notre Dame’s breakthrough moment? Or is the Big Easy yet another easy stop for the Bulldogs, whose last two bowl appearances also marked the largest margin of victories in bowl history? The Bulldogs drilled Florida State by 60 points in the Orange Bowl last season and won the national title with a 58-point beating of TCU in 2023.
But this year seems different, doesn’t it? Georgia’s top-five defenses of the past have regressed to an 11-year low as a top-35 unit. Notre Dame is not just winning, but winning big with an unstoppable rushing offense and a top-10 defense, including the playoff’s best pass defense (96.9 opponent pass rating). Plus, Georgia is set to send first-time starter Gunner Stockton into the fray as quarterback. He’ll try to out-gun and out-run counterpart Riley Leonard, who has more career touchdowns (75) than Stockton has pass attempts (51).
The Sugar Bowl is the site of fond memories for Georgia faithful, who celebrated their first national championship in 1980 with a win against Notre Dame. The Bulldogs are 3-0 against the Irish. The question is whether the past matters at all with the new-look Irish on the scene.
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Author : Brandon Marcello
Publish date : 2024-12-30 19:00:00
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