The Sugar Bowl, originally scheduled for Wednesday, has been delayed for 24 hours following a deadly terrorist attack in New Orleans on New Year's Day. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is advocating for a further delay until Friday, citing concerns for public safety.
Louisiana’s attorney general is seeking a further delay for the Sugar Bowl after the deadly New Year’s Day terrorist attack in New Orleans . The College Football Playoff game between Georgia and Notre Dame was originally scheduled for Wednesday. It was then delayed for 24-hours after at least 15 people were killed — including a former Princeton football star — in the wake of a terrorist driving a truck through crowded Bourbon Street as revelers celebrated at around 3:15 a.m.
The agency said in a statement that at the time of the attack, he was driving a Ford pickup truck that appeared to have been rented, and that an ISIS flag was located in the vehicle.Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill told “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt” on Wednesday night she would have preferred the football game get delayed at least until Friday. “Not my decision, but I would like to see it delayed at least another day,” Murrill told the network. “If they asked my opinion, I would tell them that.” Organizers of the Sugar Bowl — being held at the Caesar Superdome, which is about one mile away from the attack — decided to move the game to Thursday at 4 p.m. ET. A sign for the Allstate Sugar Bowl between Georgia and Notre Dame outside the Louisiana Superdome after at least 15 people were killed on Bourbon Street when an attacker drove into a crowd in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day on January 1, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Chris Graythen/Getty)“We have been in consultation with ESPN, with the College Football Playoff, with the Southeastern Conference, with the University of Georgia, with Notre Dame. All parties and all agree that it’s in the best interest in everybody and public safety that we postpone the game for 24 hours,” Sugar Bowl CEO Jeff Hundley said during a press conference Wednesday afternoon to confirm the change
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