College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl, rescheduled from jan 1 ·

College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl, rescheduled from jan 1

College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl - Rescheduled from Jan 1
No. 3 Notre Dame13-123
No. 2 Georgia11-310Final
Thu, Jan 2 · Caesars Superdome, New Orleans, La. (neutral site) · Crowd 57,267 · IndoorsESPN

Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.

No. 3 Notre Dame beat No. 2 Georgia by 13 points, the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl, rescheduled from jan 1.

It was played at a neutral site: Caesars Superdome, New Orleans, LA.

How the game turned

Notre Dame aheadGeorgia aheadBiggest swingLow: 45%

Q2 0:27 Notre Dame 13, Georgia 3

Notre Dame 82% to win

Leonard 13-yd TD pass to Collins, Notre Dame leads 13-3

Big moments

  1. 1Q2 0:39 · Notre Dame 6, Georgia 3Jeter 48-yd field goal, Notre Dame goes ahead 6-3
  2. 2Q2 0:27 · Notre Dame 13, Georgia 3Notre Dame's win chance rose from 63% to 82%.Leonard 13-yd TD pass to Collins, Notre Dame leads 13-3

Notre Dame's lowest chance to win was 45 percent. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.

The biggest swing

With 0:27 left in the 2nd quarter, Notre Dame's chance to win went from 63 percent to 82 percent when Notre Dame scored a touchdown.

The score went from Notre Dame 6, Georgia 3 to Notre Dame 13, Georgia 3.

The play: Leonard 13-yd TD pass to Collins, Notre Dame leads 13-3.

It was Notre Dame's first win over Georgia since 1970 in our games data, after 3 straight losses in the series.

What happened next

  1. Georgia finished the 2024 season 11-3, No. 2 in the last AP poll before the bowls.

  2. Notre Dame's next game: W 27-24 vs Penn State in the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl, Jan 9

    7 days later
  3. Georgia's first game of the 2025 season: W 45-7 vs Marshall, Aug 30, 2025

    about 8 months later

Related pages

Scores, dates and the stage: ESPN. Win chance: our curve from play-by-play; the turn is its largest one-play change that moved with the score.

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