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Notre Dame vs. Georgia Opening Odds: Bulldogs Flip Early Spread as Favorites to Win 2025 Sugar Bowl

C Jackson Cowart

Last Updated: December 21, 2024 1:17 AM EST • 2 min 6 sec read.

Georgia quarterback Gunner Stockton celebrates with his teammates, as we break down the Notre Dame vs. Georgia opening odds and early betting lines for the 2025 Sugar Bowl in the College Football Playoff.
Georgia quarterback Gunner Stockton (14) celebrates with his teammates. Photo by Joshua L. Jones / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images.

After the Fighting Irish (12-1) briefly opened as betting favorites to win the 2025 Sugar Bowl, the Notre Dame vs. Georgia opening odds quickly flipped in favor of the Bulldogs (11-2) ahead of their Jan. 1 meeting at 8:45 p.m. ET (ESPN) at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, La.

The Fighting Irish opened as 1.5-point favorites across our best college football betting sites to win this College Football Playoff quarterfinal, but Georgia was favored by as many as 1.5 points within an hour of that first-round win by Notre Dame as bettors rallied behind the SEC champions.

Notre Dame was initially favored by the CFP quarterfinal look-ahead odds ahead of the first round, and our best sportsbooks are now siding with Kirby Smart's group to stave off elimination against the Fighting Irish in the quarterfinal.

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Notre Dame vs. Georgia odds, early lines & betting analysis

The Fighting Irish briefly opened as 1.5-point favorites to win this game, but the market pounced on the preseason favorites by the college football championship odds. That comes even with starting QB Carson Beck (elbow) unlikely to play in the 2025 Sugar Bowl after going down with injury in the SEC Championship.

If you like the Bulldogs, you might want to hop onto this early number if the action to this point is any indication of future movement. You can still bet Georgia -1 at three of our five best sports betting apps entering Saturday morning, while all but one of them are offering the Bulldogs at -115 on the moneyline.

Those who like Notre Dame - as the market did until the immediate rush post-open - might want to wait to see just how high this number gets before rushing to the window. That's especially appealing with Gunner Stockton making his first career start against a Fighting Irish defense that just embarrassed senior QB Kurtis Rourke.

When making your Notre Dame vs. Georgia picks and predictions, be sure to use our college football player prop odds tool, which will show you the best odds on any market with updated prices across legal sportsbooks in your area.

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How to watch the Sugar Bowl

  • When: Wednesday, Jan. 1
  • Kickoff: 8:45 p.m. ET
  • Where: Caesars Superdome (New Orleans, La.)
  • How to watch: ESPN
  • Weather: Indoors

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C Jackson Cowart
C Jackson Cowart is a publishing editor and lead writer for Sportsbook Review. An award-winning writer, reporter, and editor with a decade of sports media experience, "C-Jax" has worked with ESPN, Forbes, theScore, and various daily newspapers before joining the Sportsbook Review team. He's a proud graduate of the University of North Carolina, where he served as a beat writer for the Tar Heels' championship run through the NCAA men's basketball tournament in 2017. Jackson has spent the last five years covering sports betting as a predictive analyst, features writer, and industry reporter. Since joining the team in 2023, he's played a key role in Sportsbook Review's coverage of the Super Bowl, March Madness, and NBA playoffs while serving as the lead writer for the growing WNBA and NASCAR betting scenes. Though he's cashed some big bets over the years -- including Lamar Jackson to win MVP (twice) -- he's still haunted by enough second-place bet slips to wallpaper his home office. While Jackson is a committed "process over results" bettor with a keen eye for advanced stats and subtle bias in futures markets, he also embraces sports betting as a vehicle for entertainment and personal investment. He's written about everything from hot dogs to groundhogs and still hasn't forgiven his "inside source" for a sabotaged bet on the Gatorade color in Super Bowl LV.