Our first ever College Football Playoff quarterfinal game is coming up and it’s No. 2 Georgia vs. No. 7 Notre Dame in the Allstate Sugar Bowl. Kickoff is scheduled for January 1, 2025 at 8:45 p.m. ET on ESPN and the Bulldogs are the very narrow early favorites. Accordingly the Vegas insider consensusa coalition of numerous sportsbooks in Sin City, UGA is the one-point favorite.

Notre Dame was the one-point favorite in some respects, but in other respects the game was a pick’em. Georgia is favored by some oddsmakers by up to 1.5 points.

The Fighting Irish secured their berth in the Sugar Bowl with a 27-17 victory over Indiana in the first College Football Playoff game played on a home campus. It took place in South Bend when Notre Dame controlled the game from start to finish and led 27-3 with 90 seconds to play.

Georgia earned its way to New Orleans with a season that featured six games against teams ranked in the top 15. The Bulldogs are 4-0 against teams that made the College Football Playoff, beating Texas twice, Clemson and Tennessee.

This will be the fourth game between Georgia and Notre Dame. The Bulldogs have won each of their first three games. It will be the second time these two teams have met in New Orleans, the first being in 1981. At that time it was about the national championship, in which Georgia won 17:10.

Since then, the last two meetings have taken place Kirby Smart became Georgia’s head coach. The first was in 2017, a 20-19 victory for the Bulldogs Jake Fromm‘s first career start. The Sugar Bowl will be too Shooter StocktonThe first start with Carson Beck Expect to miss at least the Sugar Bowl and probably more time if Georgia advances. That game took place in South Bend and the two teams met two years later in Athens, with UGA winning again, this time by a score of 23-17.