Sugar Bowl kicks off after New Orleans terror attack

NFL on FOX sideline reporter Jen Hale, a New Orleans native, on how the city is preparing to host the Sugar Bowl in the wake of the New Year’s truck attack.

The College Football Playoff quarterfinal game between No. 2 Georgia and No. 5 Notre Dame is underway in New Orleans more than a day after a deadly terror attack on Bourbon Street claimed the lives of at least 15 people and injured dozens more. 

The teams arrived at the Caesars Superdome, just a mile away from the crime scene in the French Quarter, for the Sugar Bowl on Thursday with heightened security after the FBI said a driver in a Ford pick-up truck plowed through a crowd of people in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day in what is being investigated as an act of terrorism. 

FBI personnel arrive at the Caesars Superdome ahead of the Sugar Bowl NCAA College Football Playoff game, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025, in New Orleans.  (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

Law enforcement officials have ramped up security measures for Thursday’s Sugar Bowl after organizers made the decision to postpone the bowl game until Thursday in the best interest of public safety. 

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New Orleans police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said in an interview with "TODAY" on Thursday that fans attending the game can expect to see as much security "if not more" than what was expected to be present at the Super Bowl next month. 

"We are in partnership with many other partners," Kirkpatrick said, via ESPN. "Both local, federal, military police, and so forth, will be here, and so we're going to have absolutely hundreds of officers and staff lining our streets, lining Bourbon Street, lining the French Quarter. So, we are staffing up at the same level, if not