Georgia of the Southeastern Conference will appear in the quarterfinals of the College Football Playoff in the Allstate Sugar Bowl at Caesars Superdome on Wednesday, January 1, 2025. The Bulldogs will face the winner of the College Football Playoff first-round game between Indiana and Notre Dame (Friday, Dec. 20, 7 p.m., ABC and ESPN). The Allstate Sugar Bowl is scheduled to begin at 7:45 p.m. (Central) and will be televised by ESPN. Although the game is officially sold out, the Sugar Bowl Committee encourages fans who still wish to purchase tickets to visit Ticketmaster, the official resale platform of the 2025 Allstate Sugar Bowl playoff quarterfinals has confirmed. The Allstate Sugar Bowl will be played simultaneously as a College Football Playoff (CFP) game for the fifth time since the CFP’s inception for the 2014 season. The four previous playoff games were CFP semifinals and combined to reach nearly 90 million global viewers across ESPN platforms. “We are excited for the opportunity to host Georgia again in New Orleans for the Allstate Sugar Bowl,” said Walter Becker, Sugar Bowl Committee President. “The Bulldogs have proven that they have a great football team with a large and passionate fan base. We’re also excited to watch Indiana and Notre Dame play one of the first-ever College Football Playoff first-round games in two weeks, with the prize being their own trip to New Orleans for the CFP quarterfinals in the Allstate Sugar Bowl.” The season marks the first year of the new 12-team format for the CFP. The four top-seeded conference champions, including Georgia, are seeded first through fourth and received first-round byes. The other eight teams will play in the first round of the CFP, with the higher seeds hosting the lower seeds on campus. “The Sugar Bowl Committee has a long history with the great Georgia football program and all of us here look forward to another chapter written on New Year’s Day,” said Jeff Hundley, the executive director of the Allstate Sugar Bowl. “We are honored to be part of the College Football Playoff and host the Bulldogs in this organization’s first-ever College Football Playoff quarterfinal against the winner of the Indiana-Notre Dame First-Round Game.” It will be an exciting time in New Orleans .” The winner of this year’s game, the 91st annual Sugar Bowl Classic, will advance to the CFP semifinals in either the Orange Bowl or the Cotton Bowl. This year’s CFP National Championship will be played on Monday, January 20th in Atlanta. Georgia (11-2, 6-2 SEC) was ranked No. 2 by the College Football Playoff Selection Committee following its 22-19 overtime victory over Texas in the SEC championship game on Saturday. The Bulldogs will be the 96th conference champions to play in the Sugar Bowl in their 91-year history. The Bulldogs’ opponent in the Allstate Sugar Bowl will be the winner of the CFP first-round game between Indiana and Notre Dame. Indiana (11-1, 8-1 Big Ten) is the No. 10 seed in the CFP. With a win over the Fighting Irish on December 20, the Hoosiers would become the 53rd different team to play in the Sugar Bowl. On the other hand, if Notre Dame (11-1) tops the Hoosiers in the CFP first-round game, the No. 7 seed Fighting Irish would be making their fifth Sugar Bowl appearance and first since 2007. One of the most memorable Sugar Bowls of all Times belonged to Notre Dame and Georgia as the top-ranked Bulldogs capped a perfect season with a thrilling 17-10 victory over the Fighting in the 1981 Sugar Bowl Irish.Georgia will be making its 12th Sugar Bowl appearance. It has compiled an all-time 5-6 record, including the aforementioned victory over Notre Dame in 1981 that capped an undefeated national championship season for head coach Vince Dooley’s Bulldog squad. Georgia has recorded 30 seasons of 10 or more wins, including each of the last five years. It is Georgia’s 63rd bowl appearance; it has an all-time bowl mark of 38-21-3. Georgia will make its 40th trip to Louisiana – the Bulldogs have an 18-20-1 record in the Pelican State with a 6-7 record in New Orleans against Tulane, a 5-6-1 record against LSU in Baton Rouge , a 2-2 record in the Sugar Bowl (the 2006 Sugar Bowl was played in Atlanta) and a 2-2 record in the Independence Bowl in Shreveport.