Bucknell·Patriot

2014 — The Winning Chapter

Bucknell's 2014 season (8-3) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 8-3
Final result No postseason
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -10.8 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs VMI 42-38 W @ Marist 22-0 W @ Sacr Hea 36-20 W vs Cornell 20-7 L @ Bryant 15-34 W @ Lehigh 45-24 W @ George 22-17 W vs Lafaye 27-24 L vs Fordham 27-30 W @ Holy Cro 31-24 L vs Colgate 6-21
Defining moments
The statement

The 2014 season's largest margin: Bucknell 22, Marist 0. A 22-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Bucknell 15, Bryant 34. A 19-point margin the season is remembered by.

"'Ray Bucknell!"
— Bucknell fanbase voice · 2014· synthesized
What it meant

2014 is a middle chapter for Bucknell — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.