Sixty-two points. That is the number that walks out of Martin Stadium with Lowndes on Friday night, and it is the number that explains everything else about this one.
South Forsyth came down to Valdosta and scored 27, which on most Friday nights in November is a fine evening's work. It was not close to enough. The 8 p.m. ET kickoff gave this thing a full night to breathe, and Lowndes used all of it, finishing with a 35-point cushion that never felt like it was in any danger of shrinking.
Here is the thing about a scoreline like 62-27. Both teams found the end zone plenty. Only one of them kept finding it after the other had run out of answers, and the gap between those two facts is the whole game. South Forsyth made the trip from Cumming and put real numbers on the board. Lowndes put up more than double.
Valdosta got its money's worth. The scoreboard operator earned overtime.
