Fifty-three points. That is the number North Gwinnett hung on North Atlanta on Friday, Nov. 13, and the 53-28 final is the kind of scoreline that makes you check twice to be sure you read the loser's total right.
You did. North Atlanta scored 28. That is a real number, the sort of output that wins a lot of football games in a lot of places. It bought nothing here. North Gwinnett, a Class AAAAAAA program, answered everything and then kept going, and the margin settled at 25 with the home side on the right end of it.
There are no board numbers attached to this one, no ranking to hang on either side, which means the scoreboard is the whole argument. It is a loud argument. Twenty-five points of separation in a game where both teams found the end zone plenty tells you one side simply had more of whatever was working, for longer.
North Atlanta played at North Gwinnett and came away with 28 points and a loss. Some nights the math is cruel like that.
