The Sugar Bowl — probably the most anticipated soccer video games of the yr — has been postponed twenty-four hours after a horrific New 12 months’s Day assault left scores lifeless within the metropolis of New Orleans, the situation of the massive CFB quarterfinal tilt.

Jeff Hundley, CEO of the Sugar Bowl, introduced Wednesday morning that the soccer sport between 2-seeded College of Georgia and 7-seeded Notre Dame College would kick off Thursday night time simply earlier than 8 PM native time, as an alternative of Wednesday night time as deliberate, after consulting with the groups, TV community, and others.

“All events and all agree that it is in the most effective in the most effective curiosity of everyone and public security that we postpone the sport for twenty-four hours,” Hundley mentioned.

The choice comes after a person deliberately crashed his car into throngs of individuals celebrating the New 12 months round 3:15 AM on Bourbon Road, in accordance with the FBI … killing not less than 10 individuals, and ~35 injured.

“This man was attempting to run over as many individuals as he may,” Anne Kirkpatrick, Superintendent of the New Orleans PD mentioned Wednesday.

The Bureau says the assault, allegedly perpetrated by a 42-year-old man named Shamsud Din Jabbar, is being investigated as an act of terrorism.

Nobody in NOLA needed to cancel the sport, however on the finish of the day, protecting individuals secure was clearly the precedence, in accordance with Congressman Troy Carter from Louisiana.

“The soccer sport is vital, it is a main occasion,” Carter mentioned. “Folks have come from everywhere in the nation, however nothing is extra vital than public security and ensuring that we’re defending the residents and guests alike.”