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Notre Dame and Georgia are set to face off in the 91st annual Sugar Bowl, the first time it's been a College Football Playoff quarterfinal game as well.

If Georgia playing Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl has a classic ring to it, it should. Fighting Irish linebacker Jack Kiser and Bulldogs tight end Oscar Delp know all about the first time their storied programs met in the Superdome at the end of the 1980 season — some two decades before they were born.