Sugar Bowl Rescheduled Due to Tragedy in New Orleans

SportsGrid

Watch Sugar Bowl Rescheduled Due to Tragedy in New Orleans - SportsGrid on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00Uh, in unfortunate circumstance, and the only thing that we could define this as is just

00:06a humongous tragedy in New Orleans as the Peach Bowl and excuse me, the Sugar Bowl has

00:13had to be moved to today at four o'clock Eastern due to the killings of over 15 people in New

00:21Orleans.

00:22Uh, the game was supposed to be played last night and out of precaution, they decided

00:26to move it today.

00:28This is a tragedy of epic proportions here in this country naturally, and they're still

00:34investigating this both in New Orleans and in Houston, Texas.

00:38But needless to say, our show that covers sports and sporting events needs to keep you

00:44informed as to what's going on with this game because it did affect the start.

00:48Now the game initially was postponed 24 hours out of caution.

00:54They've decided to now move the game up to four PM Eastern.

00:58So Georgia Notre Dame kick today will be four o'clock Eastern at the Mercedes-Benz

01:04Superdome.

01:05The CEO of the Sugar Bowl, Jeff Hundley, talked about the tragedy in Louisiana.

01:11Good afternoon.

01:12Obviously, uh, we wish we weren't here for this reason today.

01:16The Sugar Bowl committee has a 90 year history of being a good corporate citizen for the

01:22city of New Orleans, and that's why this tragedy hurts us as much as anybody, uh, right now.

01:28So our condolences, thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families as we

01:33all work through this.

01:35Of course, any time we have a major event in the city of New Orleans, public safety

01:39is paramount and we have full.

01:41And during the mayor and all the assets, the federal, state and local resources that they've

01:48applied to this event so that we can ultimately bring those responsible to justice and carry

01:56on with the major events that we have in front of us.

02:00Speaking of which, we were scheduled this evening to have a CFP quarterfinal played

02:07in the Superdome at 745.

02:10We have been in consultation with ESPN, with the college football playoff, with the Southeastern

02:17Conference, with the University of Georgia, with Notre Dame.

02:21All parties and all agree that it's in the best interest of everybody and public safety

02:27that we postpone the game for 24 hours.

02:32Scott Farrell Coast to Coast has you covered during the game today.

02:35He is on at 3 p.m. Eastern.

02:37Meanwhile, the point spread has moved in favor of Notre Dame.

02:41Georgia once a one point favorite, now a one and a half point dog.

02:45Total of 45 and a half, four o'clock Eastern later today.

02:49Also last night in college football, one of the best games we've seen all bowl season,

02:53and there have been a lot of them.

02:54Texas ends up beating Arizona State in overtime, 39 to 31, a wild game that the Longhorns led

03:03basically from the start until the fourth quarter.

03:05In fact, they led by two touchdowns, but Arizona State just fought their way all the way back

03:11to this one and almost won a couple of different occasions.

03:14Here's Steve Sarkisian as they head to the next round of the college football playoff.

03:19As far as our guys go today, not our cleanest game of the year, and that's okay to say that.

03:28But the one thing that I know about our group is when our backs are against the wall and

03:33when our best is needed, our best shows up time and time again.

03:37And the resiliency that these guys showed today was something that as a coach makes

03:43you really proud.

03:44I know that we weren't at our best, and it felt like a NCAA March Madness basketball

03:50game with the swings of emotions and things.

03:54But fourth and 15 in overtime to score, to come right back and score again, two-point

04:01conversion and then a great play by Andrew Makuba.

04:05Just proud of these guys because not every game is going to be pretty.

04:09Not every game is just going to go exactly how you want it to go.

04:12And there's going to be plenty of stuff that we're going to look at this tape and say we've

04:15got to do better and be better, but the one thing I won't have to say is that our toughness

04:19in our fight doesn't need to be better.

04:21And if there's one thing that you want as a calling card for your team, it's just that.

04:25And so I think it's a tribute to these guys up here and their leadership and the culture

04:30that we have and their ability to stay calm through the storm and execute when, like I

04:35said, when our best was needed.

04:37And meanwhile, Arizona State, as a near 14-point underdog, almost pulled off the upset of the

04:43bowl season.

04:44Kenny Dillingham, who just got a new contract extension with Arizona State, said nothing

04:48to be ashamed about.

04:50Yeah, I mean, that's one of the best teams in the country, if not the best team in the

04:54country we face today.

04:56We started off not so great and the way the guys battled back is remarkable.

05:01Like I told them, if they could rewind in the locker room, I hate to lose more anybody.

05:06But now that it's over, when you can reflect, and boy, these guys have come, is an incredible

05:13testament to the team.

05:15But golly, that one sucks.

05:18Indeed, a great season for ASU this year, nothing to be hanging their heads about, that's

05:23for sure.

05:24All right, Ohio State wins 41-21 last night in the Rose Bowl.

05:28This wasn't much of a game.

05:29They beat Oregon and led this game by four touchdowns, like as soon as you turn the TV

05:35on yesterday.

05:36They just completely dominated this game from start to finish.

05:40Oregon scored some late touchdowns to, in fact, push this over the game total.

05:44But Ryan Day, a few weeks ago, lost to Michigan and they were calling for his head.

05:49Now all of a sudden, he's one win away from the national championship.

05:51Well, in this game, there are ups and downs along the way.

05:58When things are going good, you've got to hug the guys you love the most.

06:01And when things aren't, you've got to hug them even harder, and you just hang in there

06:05and you keep swinging.

06:06I talked to these guys about it a couple of weeks ago, that's life.

06:11This team is resilient.

06:14When you surround yourself with great people, with great character, you find yourself working

06:18through difficult times.

06:20At the end of the day, we wanted to win a national championship, and the way that we

06:25got here wasn't what we expected, it wasn't what we planned for.

06:28But nonetheless, we had an opportunity to come back and play Oregon after we'd already

06:32played them early in the season, and that's the only thing that mattered.

06:36The guys have been doing a great job of staying focused.

06:38The staff has stuck together, but the players have stuck together.

06:42They're fighting to continue to stay together because the winner gets to play together another

06:46week, the loser doesn't.

06:49Those guys have worked hard to stay together, and now we've got an opportunity to go play

06:53Texas and a lot of football ahead of us.

06:57So the winner of today's Georgia versus Notre Dame game will play Penn State as the Nittany

07:03Lions beat Boise State 31-14 in a game that was not relatively close, although Boise did

07:10have their opportunities to cover the spread several times, unfortunately.

07:14For Boise backers, they did not.

07:16The biggest bowl upset of them all was Michigan upsetting Alabama 19-13.

07:22They were up to 15.5 point favorites in this game where Alabama and Michigan dominated

07:27on defense from start to finish.

07:29In case you missed the squabble yesterday, Illinois ends up winning 21-17 in the Citrus

07:36Bowl over South Carolina, and Brett Bielema, the head coach of the Illini, mocked South

07:43Carolina's sideline making the substitution sign.

07:45It was a trick play in the game.

07:46They were fighting on social media about it.

07:48If you want to go check it out, it's pretty funny.

07:50Also Miami, the Hurricanes fired their defensive coordinator Lance Guidry after they basically

07:54couldn't stop anybody all season long.

07:56One other bowl game tonight, 7.30 Eastern, Ole Miss now up to 17.5 point favorites.

08:00They take on Duke tonight at the Gator Bowl.

08:03In the NFL, Jair Alexander going to miss the remainder of the season, including the playoffs

08:07for the Green Bay Packers.

08:08The Rams have a game this coming weekend against the Seattle Seahawks.

08:11That means nothing to them.

08:13So they're going to be sitting their starters, including Matthew Stafford.

08:16Saquon Barkley's chase for the all-time rushing record is over.

08:19He's not going to play for the Eagles this weekend, and it looks like the Miami Dolphins

08:23will be starting Tyler Huntley in their game this weekend against the Jets.

Category

Transcript

Recommended