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Notre Dame relies on Riley Leonard’s legs Leonard was just 15-of-24 passing for 90 yards and a score. But he rushed 14 times for 80 yards and was Notre Dame’s most impactful runner.
The win sends the Irish into the playoff quarterfinals in the Sugar Bowl against No. 2 Georgia. Notre Dame dominated for much of the game. ... Faison that set up Notre Dame’s final score ...
Notre Dame is headed to the College Football Playoff semifinals after stunning second-seed Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, being played in New Orleans just a day after an attack on New Year’s ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Riley Leonard passed for a touchdown, Jayden Harrison returned a kickoff 98 yards for a score, and Notre Dame's defense made it hold up in a 23-10 victory over No. 2 Georgia in the Sugar Bowl on Thursday that sends the third-ranked Fighting Irish into the semifinals of the College Football Playoff.
The game was tied at 3-all before Notre Dame scored 17 points in a span of 54 seconds. The unusual sequence began with Mitch Jeter’s 48-yard field goal with 39 seconds left in first half. Soon after, Georgia paid for a decision to attempt a drop-back pass from its own 25.
The bowl game was the fifth Sugar Bowl appearance for the Fighting Irish with a record of 2–2 in prior editions, with the program's latest appearance being the 2007 game. Notre Dame entered the game with a 12–1 record. Their only loss was to Northern Illinois, on September 7.
The Notre Dame players who starred in this 23-10 breaking of Georgia in a College Football Playoff quarterfinal at the Sugar Bowl weren’t alive for the last Irish victory of this magnitude.
The 1981 Sugar Bowl was the 47th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Thursday, January 1. Part of the 1980–81 bowl game season, it matched the undefeated and top-ranked Georgia Bulldogs of the Southeastern Conference , and the seventh-ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish .