BREAKING: 5-Star QB Stuns Texas A&M by Decommitting and Choosing Georgia bulldogs football Over Auburn and Nebraska…

BREAKING: 5-Star QB Stuns Texas A&M by Decommitting and Choosing Georgia bulldogs football Over Auburn and Nebraska…

 

shimmied and high-fived and hugged and smiled, and why shouldn’t he do all that and more?

 

Notre Dame’s Jayden Harrison had just sprinted into the end zone on a kickoff return touchdown for the Irish’s third score in less than a minute of game time, as Notre Dame drove a dagger through the vestiges of Georgia coach Kirby Smart’s dynasty.

 

And the Notre Dame coach’s elation couldn’t have matched the euphoria of those wearing green and navy in the Superdome stands.

 

The Irish waited a long time for this one.

 

I mean, a long, long time.

 

 

How long? 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.

 

Even Freeman, the Irish’s 38-year-old coach, would need a phone call to Lou Holtz to refresh any fuzzy memories of the golden domers enjoying a golden moment of this caliber on a postseason stage.

 

 

Does this result mean Notre Dame is bound for national championship glory? I retain doubts. The next two rounds will be brawls worthy of brass knuckles, starting with Penn State in the Orange Bowl in one week. Notre Dame isn’t the most complete team left in the field, but it proved it’s more polished than Georgia, armed with a defense as good as any.

 

“I want to celebrate this,” Freeman said. “I’m proud of these guys. I’m proud of this program. … We got to get on that plane and turn our focus to Penn State.”

 

Regardless of what comes next, that shouldn’t minimize what occurred here for a program that secured its biggest postseason win in more than 30 years.

 

“To reach team glory like this, it’s an awesome deal,” linebacker Jack Kiser said.

 

Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard runs for a first down against Georgia during the 2025 Sugar Bowl at Caesars Superdome on Jan. 2, 2025 in New Orleans.

 

minute and probably regret it, right?” Smart told ESPN.

 

That loosely translates to: Smart blew that one. Bigtime.

 

When you get down to it, Georgia should be considered fortunate to even make it this far. Fortunate to escape middling Georgia Tech on Black Friday. Fortunate to rally past Texas in an SEC championship game in which it largely got outplayed. Fortunate the SEC was down so it could win the conference and reach the quarterfinals.

 

Once the sport’s giant, the Bulldogs’ rule wavered last season, then went caput this season.

 

Irish made Georgia look ordinary, and that’s only a surprise if you didn’t watch Georgia before the Sugar Bowl, because Mississippi smashed the Bulldogs in November, Alabama bum-rushed ‘em in September, and neither of those teams is as solid as Notre Dame.

 

The Irish, unremarkable