What had been a dominant debut in Class AAAAAAA for the Buford football team will end without practices on Thanksgiving week.

Walton stunned the previously unbeaten and No. 1 Wolves 42-35 Friday night in the second round of the state playoffs, handing the hosts their earliest postseason exit since 1999. It snapped Buford’s 22-game winning streak and was the first playoff loss for both fourth-year head coach Bryant Appling and his players, who had gone 16-0 since 2019.

The Wolves were on a three-year run of state championships — the past two in AAAAAA and the 2019 title in AAAAA — and their last postseason loss was Nov. 23, 2018 to Bainbridge in the quarterfinals. Buford also had won 30 straight home games against Georgia teams dating back to that Bainbridge loss, and it hadn’t dropped a game to a Georgia team since Sept. 11, 2020 at North Cobb.

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