UPDATE: The Sugar Bowl will now kick off at 4pm ET on Thursday rather than 7:45pm local time.
The Notre Dame football team’s Sugar Bowl showdown against the Georgia Bulldogs has been officially postponed. The game is being held on Thursday night, rather than New Year’s Day night in the wake of what has been described as a terrorist attack on the French Quarter in the wee hours of 2025.
New Orleans district attorney Jason Williams told CBS's WWL-TV. The College Football Playoff quarterfinal game between 2-seed Georgia and 7-seed Notre Dame is now scheduled to be played Thursday, Jan. 2 at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. The game will reportedly still have a 7:45pm kickoff time. However, Pete Thamel is reporting that the situation is still fluid and it’s possible the game could be postponed further.
New Orleans officials said a man intentionally drove a pickup truck around barricades and into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans' French Quarter around 3:15 a.m. local time on Jan. 1 Officials said 35 people were hospitalized. CBS News reports the driver is dead.
Notre Dame football’s Sugar Bowl tilt postponed a day
"This man was trying to run over as many people as he could," Kirkpatrick, according to CBS News, adding that two police officers were hit by gunfire but were in a stable condition.
The FBI identified the man who is suspected of carrying out the attack as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar, U.S. citizen from Texas.
“He was driving a Ford pickup truck, which appears to have been rented and we are working to confirm how the subject came into possession of the vehicle,” the agency said in a Wednesday afternoon statement.
Originally, there were some reports that Notre Dame football and Georgia would play the game as originally scheduled, however things began changing in the early afternoon as officials decided it was in the best interest of public safety to push things back a day.