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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Greetings from South Bend! Well, in the interest of full disclosure, this report is coming to you from Mishawaka, Ind. That is where my hotel room is. And those of you who have been looking into lodging in the quaint little town that encompasses the University of Notre Dame will understand why I’m staying here rather than there this week.
I try to avoid New York City prices when I’m not in New York.
And as I’m learning and you might, too, Mishawaka is a sort of sister city to South Bend. It’s located right next door and only about six miles to Notre Dame Stadium. So it’s a good alternative.
If, that is, you can find a room. There aren’t any here at the hotel I’m staying, not for the weekend at least, and there are none of the premium variety pretty much anywhere in a 50-mile radius, I’m told. But the good folks at VisitSouthBend.com tell me you can visit their site and they might be able to help you find something.
That said, it’s pretty quiet around here as far as the build-up for Saturday’s game between Georgia and Notre Dame. You may have heard that the two teams are meeting for the first time in 37 years on Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. (NBC). The only other time they played was Jan. 1, 1981, in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans when the Bulldogs prevailed 17-10 to claim the 1980 national championship.
Generally, that’s probably a bigger deal on the Georgia side of things than it is on Notre Dame’s. The Fighting Irish, who play as an independent in football, have at least one or two major programs in here pretty much every year that either haven’t played them ever or in a long time. I had one local gentleman come up and ask me if the DawgNation shirt I was wearing was associated with the University of Georgia. I explained that it did not but that I was here to cover Saturday’s game between Georgia and Notre Dame and to report on things happening during the week leading up to it. He “had no idea” Notre Dame was playing UGA but seemed thrilled to learn that they were and said he hopes the Bulldogs put up more of a fight than Temple did this past Saturday.
I’m sure that gentleman was an exception, but that’s kind of where we are all of the sudden with this monumental matchup. I saw some odds posted Monday that, based on the news that Georgia quarterback Jacob Eason is out and freshman Jake Fromm will start in his place, Notre Dame moved from a 4- to a 6.5-point favorite for Saturday’s game.
So they’re feeling pretty good about themselves around here. And that’s not a small thing after the 4-8 debacle that was last season.
But last time I checked, those Bulldogs are pretty good at stopping the ol’ run. I suspect Kirby Smart and Mel Tucker will sellout pretty hard to have Georgia’s formidable front seven stuff the Notre Dame running game and force Wimbush, the first-year starter at quarterback, to show he can throw the ball. Of course, the exact same can be expected in inverse on Georgia and its young signal-caller.
