The Georgia Bulldogs and Notre Dame Fighting Irish will play in the Sugar Bowl as part of the College Football Playoff quarterfinals on Thursday evening in the wake of a terror attack on Bourbon Street that left more than a dozen dead.
Sugar Bowl officials and lawmakers decided to postpone the game to 4 p.m. ET after it was set to be the final game of a three-game playoff slate on Wednesday. Both schools arrived in New Orleans on Sunday and were reportedly just blocks away from the carnage that struck the city.
Fans who came to the Big Easy scrambled to make their final plans with the game on hold.
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A mounted police officer arrives on Canal Street after a vehicle drove into a crowd earlier in New Orleans on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill)
Lisa Borrelli, a 34-year-old Philadelphia resident and Notre Dame graduate, came to New Orleans with her fiancé to watch the Fighting Irish.
“We can’t get new flights,” she told The Associated Press, adding that she understood why officials postponed the game and that it was “absolutely the right call.”
Borrelli said they paid more than $250 per ticket and did not bother listing them on a third-party site because prices were so low. Early Thursday morning, tickets were going for as low as $26 on some sites.
