Bucknell·Patriot

2015 — The 2015 Season

Bucknell's 2015 season (4-7) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 4-7
Final result No postseason
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -10.0 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Marist 17-0 L vs Duquesne 7-26 W @ Cornell 19-14 W @ VMI 28-22 L vs Lehigh 10-21 L @ Army 14-21 L vs George 9-17 W @ Lafaye 35-24 L @ Fordham 16-24 L vs Holy Cro 7-23 L @ Colgate 10-14
Defining moments
The statement

The 2015 season's largest margin: Bucknell 17, Marist 0. A 17-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Bucknell 7, Duquesne 26. A 19-point margin the season is remembered by.

"'Ray Bucknell!"
— Bucknell fanbase voice · 2015· synthesized
What it meant

2015 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.