Rolling into 2025 high school football, Cumberland County has put 25 seasons behind it since the turn of the millenium. Those years have included a spate of future NFL playmakers, 17 regional championship appearances in the NCHSAA's Final Four, a run of four straight undefeated regular seasons and counting, in-county grudge matches and playoff barnburners, peaking with a state championship for Seventy-First and Fayetteville football coaching patriarch Bob Paroli against the Douglas Byrd program he'd led to five state title games.

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