Notre Dame Defeats Georgia 23-10 in Sugar Bowl Showdown

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00:00A marquee matchup we were all waiting for. The two seed Georgia in the chase for a third national

00:06championship in the last four years with a new starting quarterback in Gunnar Stockton making

00:11his first career start with UGA and a Notre Dame team led by Marcus Freeman in his third year

00:19in the third appearance for the Irish in a college football playoff looking for its first win in the

00:25CFP in a first major bowl victory in three decades and that's what Notre Dame accomplished

00:32yesterday in New Orleans 23 to 10 beating Georgia at what Georgia has beat basically

00:40everybody in college football doing in the last five years. Joe when I say this game was a pick

00:46them I am not kidding by the time we got to close yesterday at 4 p.m eastern time it was minus 110

00:53Notre Dame on the money line it was minus 110 for Georgia on the other side on the money line

00:59the fighting Irish went outright by 13 in a total of 45 at a hook stays under Notre Dame's first

01:07major bowl victory in a national perspective since 1993 and because of it the Irish earn a spot

01:16in the college football playoff semifinal against Penn State dominant and impressive

01:22defensively and on special teams throughout Notre Dame outlast Georgia in the sugar bowl.

01:30Yeah I mean it was just so many different narratives and storylines heading into this

01:35four o'clock kickoff yesterday Ben on the east coast and I gotta tell you for a couple of hours

01:43that game certainly delivered and certainly gave people at least a brief little time there to be

01:50able to take their minds off of the tragedy that happened 24 hours earlier it was unbelievable

01:57the amount of Notre Dame support they had at that place which was I mean it almost looked like it

02:04was maybe a Notre Dame home game and we all know Notre Dame fans travel and they travel better than

02:11just about any fan base and they were there to watch a different Notre Dame team and make no

02:17mistake this is not your dad's Notre Dame team here the 1993-94 Cotton Bowl winner if they when

02:25that's how far you got to go back with Notre Dame that'll tell you that everything we saw yesterday

02:31I'm telling you if you didn't show anybody any uniforms and just watch these guys play you would

02:35have swore Georgia was kicking butt only it wasn't Georgia it was Notre Dame and

02:42defensively offensively and once again another team that had an extra week off Ben comes out

02:51starts slow and eventually can't do enough to be able to come back so there that's another narrative

02:58we got to dive into at some particular point before next year's tournament because all those

03:04teams were down big before they even knew what to do and Georgia was just that final chip there that fell