Lucky and good: Georgia football's dominant history vs. Notre Dame's Irish
You thought there wasn’t a Georgia football connection to St. Patrick’s Day?
You thought wrong, lads and lasses.
Seeing all these shamrocks, green and gold on March 17th reminds many a Bulldog fan about their team’s dominance over the Fighting Irish.
Georgia is one of five FBS programs that currently have an unblemished record against Notre Dame in Football.
Of those (UConn, Tulsa, Oklahoma State and Oregon State), only the Bulldogs have played Notre Dame more than twice.
So pour yourself a cold green brew and re-live the moments that lifted the Red and Black over the Green and Gold.
Georgia 17, Notre Dame 10 – 1980 College Football National Championship
Buck Belue completed one pass.
Herschel Walker ran for two touchdowns.
Scott Woerner had two interceptions.
Notre Dame missed a field goal, had one blocked, and failed to recover a normal kickoff.
It seemed like the only thing the Irish could get right in the kicking game that New Orleans night was kicking themselves.
Georgia was lucky in this game, and good enough to be college football’s best.
Dawgs 20, Irish 19 – 2017 (South Bend, Ind.)
Georgia just lost Jacob Eason to an injury in its first game of the season.
True freshman quarterback Jake Fromm started his first career college football game as a Bulldog in South Bend. He had some help from a large Bulldog crowd that overtook Notre Dame Stadium, Chicago and beyond.
Fromm wasn’t perfect, but he threw the pass that mattered most to the only place that Terry Godwin could catch it.
The Dawgs leveraged this win into the momentum they needed to win the SEC Championshp, a Rose Bowl, and make it to the National Championship game in Kirby Smart’s second season as a head coach.
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Georgia 23, Notre Dame 17 – 2019 (Athens, Ga.)
The newly minted Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium was all set up for college football’s biggest ticket of the season.
A local grocery store even banned Irish Spring soap from its shelves.
Clearly, It Just Means More in the SEC. Notre Dame found that out in a light show that shook the hedges.
D’Andre Swift leapt over a defender, and gave the Dawgs yet another iconic moment in this series.
The Savannah River runs green down in the coastal region of Georgia today.
Green beers and Irish whiskey might get the better of many hearts that pump red and black along that waterway.
But at least they’ll know their English Bulldog still has the best of Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish.
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