Buford 30, Marietta 6. That's the Friday night file, stamped Nov. 13 in Buford, Georgia, and there isn't much ambiguity left in it.
Kickoff was 7:30 p.m. ET at Phillip Beard Stadium, where the AAAAAA Wolves were the home team and acted like it. Marietta got on the board, so this wasn't a blanking, but 6 points against a 30 is the kind of arithmetic that stops being interesting around the time the margin hits 24. No overtime. No late scramble. No need for anyone to check the rulebook.
Neither team carried a ranking into this one, which means the only number that mattered was the one on the scoreboard, and the scoreboard was not subtle about which side of the field it preferred. Marietta played at Buford. Buford played like the host.
Twenty-four points is a long walk back to the visitors' bus. Buford made sure it felt like one.
