Georgia to play Notre Dame in 2017, 2019

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By David Paschall June 26, 2014 2 min read

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Georgia and Notre Dame cemented a two-game football series Wednesday, announcing mid-September matchups at South Bend in 2017 and in Athens in 2019.

“This series will generate an overwhelming level of excitement for our student-athletes and supporters,” Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity said in a release. “We have a tremendous amount of respect for Notre Dame and look forward to the start of this memorable experience.”

The Bulldogs and Fighting Irish have never met in the regular season but collided in the Sugar Bowl after the 1980 season.

Georgia won 17-10 behind Herschel Walker’s 150 yards and two touchdowns on 36 carries to deliver the Bulldogs their only Associated Press national championship. The other 29 plays that Georgia used that afternoon netted minus-23 yards.

The Bulldogs would have met the Irish in the BCS championship game after the 2012 season in Miami, but Georgia came up 5 yards short in a 32-28 loss to Alabama in the Southeastern Conference title game.

David Paschall

David Paschall has covered sports at the Chattanooga Times Free Press since 1999 and wrote for the Chattanooga Free Press in the nine years before that. David has mostly covered college athletics, with a focus on the University of Georgia from 2000 to 2019 and the University of Tennessee since 2020. He grew up in Chattanooga and is a graduate of the Baylor School and Auburn University. David has received multiple writing awards and has served as a Heisman Trophy voter since 2003. He has also worked in radio in Chattanooga and has been on the SEC Network's "Classic Rewind" series since 2014. David and his wife, Kelly, have three children — Conner, Emily and Spencer.

Contact David Paschall at dpaschall@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6524.