couple times tonight, they continue to bounce back. they made a couple of big mistakes that led to points for georgia tech, and yet, when they have to have a play, with the game on the line, they always seem to find a way >> sean: assuming this goes in the win column, as it almost certainly will, how do you size up georgia and alabama in the s.e.c. championship game? that's probably a winner gets into the college football playoff. >> greg: i think most people would think it would be a scenario where the winner would get in, but man, texas is the road block, so, i think it's very dependent on what happens with the long horns and i think georgiawins, they take care of business. >> sean: yeah, and alabama's out. but were alabama to win, that could make for some interesting scenarios, including one where maybe georgia doesn't get in. >> greg: right. that would be wild, too, considering a team will have won 29 of the last 30, would be left out, but it's only about this year, and just so happening the

field, competing for those four playoff spots, are about as deep as it's been in quite some time. >> sean: they're going to go into the victory formation. georgia tech can stop it once if it wants to. and it wants to. brent key and barring the kind of mistake that miami made against georgia tech, it's going to be a win for kirby smart and another perfect regular season, 12-0, in the regular season for the third season in a row. >> sean: that's crazy. and this team, we've mentioned resilient, and that's what kirby smart is discussing. this team is resilient, they are

excellent. they've dealt with a lot of injuries, i mean, guys in and out of the lineup. lack of continuity. some guys banged up in fall camp, only now starting to play their best football. but man, here at the time of the year you want to be playing your best, they're certainly rounding into form. >> sean: the first s.e.c. school to go 8-0 in conference play in three straight seasons. and if they were to beat alabama next week, they'd join florida 1995 and '96, the only second schools to go 8-0 and win the s.e.c. championship game in consecutive years. >> greg: remarkable what they've built. and some of the young players already contributing on both sides of the ball, it would be tough to envision them dropping off any time soon. >> sean: so that's it. valiant effort by the yellow jackets, coming up short. and georgia has won 29 straight

gam games. now all alone with the longest winning streak in southeastern conference history. they've won 15 straight road games, extending the longest active streak in the country, and the second-longest in conference history. they've won 39 straight regular season games, a lot more of those numbers we could pass along, but molly is with kirby. >> molly: coach, kendall milton, just the latest guy to step up, what does that say about this group? >> well, kendall stepped up all year. he played really hard, he's one of our best leaders. thought he did a great job today with yards after contact. >> molly: first team in s.e.c. history to win 29 straight games. what did it take to get here? >> well, a lot of guys did that before this group, this group's carried that on. the high standard of excellence. they practice hard, they play physical. a lot of credit to georgia tech today, they did a great job, but our team played hard and physical. great environment to play college football. >> molly: next week, you are

coming straight back to atlanta for if s.e.c. championship game. what does this team need to improve upon before then? >> a lot. a lot. >> molly: tell us what made you most mad tonight? >> not mad, i'm happy that we won the game. i'm happy that i got guys like this on my team. we enjoy the wins here, okay? we love the wins, we have great kids and great players that are so resilient and i'm so proud of what they do. this is one of the few times we get to enjoy that. >> molly: congrats, coach. kendall, coach said this team is resilient. so many guys go down with injury. you stepped up big tonight. what does that tell us about your team? >> that's just what the team is built on. throughout this whole season, i thought we never had a week where everybody was on the field, you know, it was always next man up mentality. and i feel like we took that to heart. in practice, we work our butts off to be able to have games like this. the whole week, he told us, this is a rivalry game. it's not going to be a walk in the park game. they're going to give us

everything they got, so, it was our job to match the intensity. >> molly: they did give you everything they had. and you guys weren't overlooking them. s.e.c. championship game is next week. how seriously did you guys take this game, what did you learn about your team ahead of that one looming? >> we took this game serious. you would have thought this was a championship game, just because, like, the magnitude of this game just shows in itself, from even when coach kirby smart coach bobo, they were playing ball, this rivalry was huge. they made sure we knee how deep it really is. i'm from california, so, i never grew up watching georgia, watching, you know, really south football, but i could feel the energy, i could feel how much this game meant, so, we took that personal as a team. we took that really to heart, and all week, we made a challenge, the offense and the defense, to go out there and have real come petition. >> it showed on the field. congrats on the win. >> thank you so much. >> molly: sean? >> sean: well, no brock bowers, no ladd mcconkey, didn't matter.

they leaned heavily on the run, especially million on the, a career high 156. against a georgia tech team that's struggled to stop the run all season long. so, it's onto the championship game in the s.e.c., georgia now just three wins away from three straight national championships. don't think anybody would bet against that, the way they're playing right now. final score, georgia, 31, georgia tech, 23. for greg and molly, good night from atlanta.

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giving it to the entire san jose state football team after starting the season one and five, the spartans have won five straight and might end up hosting the mountain west title game next week after a big win over unlv today. this little one having a great time in las vegas. fourth play of the game spartans. take the lead for good right away. kevin cordeiro, the first of his two touchdown passes. get it? sam olson, who's going to do the rest? 56 yards to the house, seven nothing. and he gets the championship belt just outside of the las vegas boulevard. after that, running back, kyrie robinson hits the jackpot. if you will. making history ties the all time record with his 19th total touchdown of the year seven teen. nothing zjsu. and in the fourth quarter robinson on another house call gets the record all to himself with a 40 yard score the first ever in spartan history with 20 touchdowns in the season. spartans win 3731. there's a three way tie for first place in the mountain west, and the computer rankings released tomorrow will determine either the spartans or boise state

playing unlv in the title game next week. but for finishing on a five game win streak, the san jose state spartans are our toyota. let's go places player of the day. shifting gears to our good night play of the game sponsored by mancini sleep world sleep better, live better. nine years after seahawks cornerback richard sherman celebrated a thanksgiving day win over the niners at levi's by eating a turkey leg on the 50 yard line. the entire niners team dined on the seahawks field after winning on thanksgiving day. how about some payback? the niners celebrating a victory weekend after their thursday night tasty victory in seattle. san francisco moved into second place in the nfc standings, took a two game lead over the seahawks in the nfc west. the other prize, a turkey dinner on the field tight end. george kittle was thrilled. oh yeah. >> he came up with all my best friends, basically my family. where else would i rather be than here at seattle's home field eating turkey legs on thanksgiving? >> can't get enough of that clip. the post win meal in seattle is our good night play of the game sponsored by mancini sleep world sleep better, live

better. time now for plays of the day. we had a crazy day of college football play, won the apple cup earlier this week. washington washington state said they'll continue their rivalry despite the end of the pac 12 late fourth quarter game tied fourth and one huskies go it's a perfect fake pulls out the camera and end the defense romo odunze in the field goal range and very last play of the game grady gross 42 yard game winner washington remains perfect 2421 win. they'll face oregon in the pac 12 title game friday night here on abc seven. washington quarterback michael penix couldn't bear to watch the end of that game play. number two tense moments in the iron bowl. auburn lost badly to new mexico state last week, but led number eight, alabama by four with 35 seconds to go. fourth and goal from the 30 for the tide. jalen milroe finds isaiah bond in the corner for the game, winning touchdown. he actually got two feet down that would have worked in the nfl back of the end zone what a play roll tide nick saban

celebrates auburn fans can't believe it 2724 they'll face georgia in the sec championship next week. finally, battle of unbeatens hundred thousand plus in the big house number three, michigan. number two. ohio state 30s to go. ohio state down six. but driving and michigan comes up with the game sealing interception. they capped a perfect regular season 12 and oh 3224 win and it's mayhem on the field in michigan. the wolverines have won three straight over ohio state, michigan head coach jim harbaugh, a three game suspension is over. he's going to return for big ten championship game next week against iowa. and that is all we have for toyota after the game. dion cowan, ucla tonight, they're playing right now, the last ever pac 12 football game. also notre dame, they beat up on stanford a little bit at 11. >> you were in your element, aren't you also. >> yeah. give me some turkey, george. >> kell, listen, only he can talk and eat at the same time and perfectly fine. >> yeah, he's good. >> chris, thank you. well, coming up next on abc seven news, small businesses get their day to shine. how bay area merchants hope to entice you to buy local this holiday season.

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given way to small business saturday and today bay area small businesses are hoping to do big business when it comes to holiday shopping. good evening and thanks for joining us. i'm dionne lim. in the north bay, there is a push, this small business saturday for shoppers to think local when buying those holiday gifts. abc7 news reporter cornell bernard shows us how some cities are creating experiences to help local merchants get a piece of the yuletide shopping profits

>> santa and mrs. claus got a rock star. welcome from hundreds of fans when they arrived by tugboat in downtown petaluma. oh, what fun it is to ride in one horse open sleigh. >> hey, santa. >> arrival kicking off the holiday season on small business saturday, a day to show some love for local shops and give them a financial boost. >> every time you shop online, when you take money away from your own community by shopping small and local, you give people jobs. you put money back into your local community for your police and fire your sales tax,

buying local buying usa and then local or as local as we can get is pretty important to me. >> adam and alexis camacho were shopping for gifts inside the treasury on petaluma boulevard. >> yeah, i've lived here most of my life and it's important to support where i'm from. >> and this over. >> owner james payo says support from the community during the holidays helps everyone. >> you see the people you build, the relationships you see the owners when they actually working at their place of business. it's beautiful. so you can actually have a contribution here in san rafael. >> downtown merchants were also looking for some holiday shopping dollars, and they did it by closing down most of fourth street this winter wonderland street fair, helping

get the word out that local businesses are here. some are still recovering from the pandemic. >> a lot of these stores down here, we rely on you guys coming down here and shopping and spending money with us. our money goes directly back into the community. president joe biden posted on small businesses are the engine of our economy and the heart and soul of our communities. >> local store owners hope shoppers keep that in mind. and all through the holiday season, good tidings for christmas and a happy new year in the north bay. cornell bernard, abc seven news. while many are snagging deals today, plenty of other shoppers are waiting on cyber days befor, the us supreme court, an appeal of chauvin's conviction. his lawyer claims he hadn't received a fair trial. well, much more to come. $23 billion in holiday shopping money that has gone unspent and some of it might

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