We asked Lafayette Parish and its surrounding areas to vote for who they thought was the best high school marching band throughout the 2025 high school football season. Over the course of a week, 337 prep band fans amassed 555,954 total votes.

Accounting for a hefty amount of votes were the North Vermilion Patriots, who made this a community effort to vote its North Vermilion Marching Band. In an online poll that closed Halloween, the band received close to 47% of votes cast for more than 250,000 votes — earning them the title of first-ever Daily Advertiser Marching Band of the Year.

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