Thirty-six hours after a deadly attack rocked the heart of one of America’s most vibrant cities, New Orleans went back to doing what it does as well as anywhere: Hosting a major event. It happened 19 and a half hours later than planned, in front of a smaller-than-expected Caesars Superdome crowd and in an environment that felt neither normal nor abnormal.
Notre Dame used a swarming defense and 54-second scoring surge to top second-seeded Georgia 23-10 in Thursday’s Sugar Bowl, the last quarterfinal of the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff.
The seventh-seeded Fighting Irish (13-1) won a school-record 13th game — and their first major bowl since the 1994 Cotton Bowl — to advance to the Jan. 9 Orange Bowl semifinal against sixth-seeded Penn State.
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