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Georgia’s Smash-Mouth Win Over Notre Dame Had the Look and Feel of a Playoff Game

ATHENS, Ga. — Just imagine it: The third-best team in the country meets the seventh-best team in the country in an on-campus College Football Playoff quarterfinal. It’s a do-or-die game. The winner advances down a path to a potential title, and the loser is a goner. The stadium is packed to the gills. Fans are hanging on every play. A national audience is squirming on their couches during a second-half nail-biter.

Would be cool, right?

Well, we got it Saturday night in a red-basked Athens, when No. 3 Georgia mounted a defensive-led second half comeback and then hung on to beat No.