With all due respect to the Valdosta Wildcats and their Georgia state record 24 football state championships, the Buford Wolves are the most dominant program this state has ever seen…and may ever see.  There I said it!

The Wolves have won 42 consecutive games dating back to the 2012 season and have actually won 45 straight on the field.  The Wolves had to forfeit two wins during their 2012 state championship season…games they actually won by a combined 124-0.  Buford is on the precipice of breaking their own state record of 47 consecutive wins set from 2001-04. 

During the Wolves current 42-game winning streak, only two games have been decided by as little as a touchdown (and none less), last year’s 27-20 win vs. McEachern and their 2012 10-3 Finals victory over St. Pius.  In fact of the Wolves 200 wins on the field of play since the start of the 2001 season, only four have been decided by less than a touchdown (the last vs. Blessed Trinity in 2008) and only eight by as little as a touchdown (seven or eight points).  That means of Buford’s last 200 wins, 188 (94%) have come by 10 points or more and many of those by 30, 40, and 50 points…or like last week…77-0 over Berkmar.

I bring up that subject this week because the greatest obstacle to rewriting the state’s (and their own) history books will come this week when the Wolves play at 6A power McEachern.  Should Buford beat the Indians this Friday night, this current winning streak could become a “Buzz Lightyear Winning Streak…to infinity and beyond!”

The Wolves have won 11 state championships (a far cry from Valdosta’s 24) but ten of those have come in the last 14 seasons.  During this time, Buford has had THREE three-peats and this season are going for state championship number four in a row (one of the few things they’ve never done).  Only twice during the last 14 seasons have the Wolves failed to reach the state finals.  Buford has lost only eight games…let me repeat that…EIGHT games total on the field of play in the last 14 years.

During the Wolves run of 10 state titles over the last 14 years, Valdosta has played for the state championship only once.  In fact the Wildcats haven’t even won a state playoff game since the 2010 season.  You have to go all the way back to 1969 to total-up Valdosta’s last 10 state titles.  As great as the Wildcats accomplishment of 24 state titles has been, Valdosta never was as dominant as Buford has been the last 14 years.  The Wildcats greatest decade was the 1960s when the program won seven state titles and laid the foundation for its reputation of “Winnersville.”

Valdosta is to Georgia High School Football what Notre Dame has been to college football.  This mystical, legendary power with fewer and fewer people being able to remember the program’s greatest seasons and glory with each passing year.  Buford is to Georgia High School Football what the SEC has been to college football in the 2000s…only better!

*Special thanks to www.GHSFHA.org and its excellence and commitment to recording and preserving the state of Georgia’s great high school football history.