Pennsylvania at Bucknell
Bucknell (1‑2) hosts Pennsylvania. Too early for a market line, but the model likes Bucknell (62%).
How they got here
Last three games · 2025 season
Pennsylvania · 6-4
Picked #247 to start the year.
W 17–6 vs Princeton #216 of 668
won by 11 as a 3.5-point favorite
L 43–45 @ Harvard #138 of 668
lost by 2 as a 23-point underdog
L 17–39 vs Cornell #210 of 668
lost by 22 as a 8-point favorite
W 28–21 vs Brown #224 of 668
won by 7 as a 11.5-point favorite
L 13–35 @ Yale #177 of 668
lost by 22 as a 6.5-point underdog
W 35–21 @ Columbia #237 of 668
won by 14 as a 7.5-point favorite
W 28–9 vs Marist #236 of 668
won by 19 as a 16.5-point favorite
W 36–24 vs Dartmouth #206 of 668
won by 12 as a 3-point underdog
L 30–44 @ Lehigh #148 of 668
lost by 14 as a 9.5-point underdog
W 24–21 @ Stonehill #254 of 668
won by 3 as a 17.5-point favorite
Last three games
Bucknell · 1-2
Picked #236 in the preseason · now #239.
1-2 in its last three — but nothing on this résumé beats a top-40 team yet.
What’s at stake
Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania is the Ivy program known for the quakers.
Bucknell
- Bucknell is 3 games back in Patriot with 7 left to make it up.
- Bucknell football is the Patriot League's most decorated all-sports program — 18 Presidents' Cups and the very first Orange Bowl trophy in college football history (26-0 over Miami, January 1, 1935) — chasing a football identity to match. Only one Patriot League football title in 30 years (1996) and a coaching change entering 2026 define a program still trying to close the gap between institutional excellence and football relevance.
The series
Pennsylvania leads the series 26-2
28 meetings since 1895 · Pennsylvania has won the last 12
- 2024Pennsylvania 31–21
- 2023Pennsylvania 37–21
- 2021Pennsylvania 30–6
- 2018Pennsylvania 34–17
- 2010Pennsylvania 31–10
Conditions
74°F · 8 mph wind
Home-field advantage: Bottom third of FBS.
0% at home, 0% on the road against FBS opponents (0–0 home, 0–6 away).
Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge (why); the books use about 3. Against the closing line this stadium reads -3.5 at home vs. away over 46 games — inside the ±6.8 noise, so the flat number is the honest one here.
The visitors travel about 113 miles to get here.