Mifflinburg Football 2025 Season

Cody Botts's second season finished 10-3. The coaching-records table has the Wildcats 5-1 in the division and 8-1 in the league, 6-2 at home. The only regular-season losses on the schedule were at Hollidaysburg, 14-49, and at home to Southern Columbia, 14-21.

The schedule's postseason line is a 56-14 win over Danville, a 35-12 win over Montoursville, and a 21-28 loss to Scranton Prep. The team site lists District IV 2025 among its championships. The school district history calls the year District 4 AAA champions. PA Football News posted highlight film of the Montoursville game under the title of the District 4 championship, and of the Scranton Prep game as a Class 3A first-round game.

Along the way Mifflinburg beat Lewisburg 35-0 at home, won at Danville 42-14 and at Mount Carmel 48-20, and opened with a 47-13 win over Loyalsock. Two August scrimmages, against Bloomsburg and Athens, are on the schedule and out of the 10-3.

Justin Beiter's EasternPAFootball account of Sept. 5 has that Mount Carmel game at the Silver Bowl, Mifflinburg 48, Mount Carmel 20. He calls Mifflinburg's 619 yards a school record. Mount Carmel had 129. Chad Martin was 15 of 25 for 301 yards, two touchdowns, and an interception. Landen Murray caught five passes for 167 yards and two scores and ran for 80 yards and two more. Mifflinburg's quarters were 20-6-15-7. Mount Carmel's were 7-13-0-0. The box lists Mifflinburg 3-0 and Mount Carmel 1-2.

EasternPAFootball's 2026 preview calls the Oct. 31 Danville win a District 4 Class 3A semifinal, 56-14, and the Nov. 7 Montoursville win the championship, 35-12. Chris Masse's Sun-Gazette preview that Friday said Mifflinburg had scored the last 49 points against Danville after trailing early, and had run for 435 yards.

Matt Beltz's account of the final, also carried by the Sun-Gazette, has it in a light rain at Mifflinburg High School. Chad Martin ran 13 times for 67 yards and three touchdowns and completed 8 of 13 passes for 156 yards and a score. The touchdown pass was 70 yards to Landen Murray, who caught six for 138. Jackson Griffith's interception gave Mifflinburg the ball at the Montoursville 33, and Martin scored from five yards at 4:26 of the second quarter. He scored from a yard with 20 seconds left in the half. Mifflinburg led 21-6. Jackson Marr returned an interception 34 yards in the third quarter, and Martin's one-yard run at 8:18 of the fourth made it 35-6. Montoursville's last touchdown came with 3:31 left.

Beltz wrote that the defense forced three turnovers and held Montoursville to 243 yards, 138 of them on the two scoring drives, and that this was the first district championship game the program had won. The 2002 title, he wrote, was shared with Shamokin because there was no district tournament. The Sun-Gazette called the night the first district title since 2002.

The next Friday, at Milton High School, Scranton Prep won the PIAA Class 3A first round, 28-21. Beltz has Murray at seven catches for 245 yards and three touchdowns, on passes of 88, 76, and 18 yards, and Martin at 298 passing yards. Mifflinburg led 21-14 at the half after 278 yards, then gained 33 in the second half. Mifflinburg's quarters were 14, 7, 0, 0.

The Daily Item's 2025 all-star note lists Martin's season at 2,739 passing yards and 33 touchdowns, with seven interceptions, plus 510 rushing yards and nine scores. It says he graduates with 6,509 yards and 76 touchdowns, school records. EasternPAFootball's preview of the next season says the 2025 offense scored at least 35 points nine times, with Landon Moser at 104 carries for 661 yards and 10 touchdowns and Seth Hartman at 90 carries for 518 yards and seven.