Bucknell·Patriot

2018 — The 2018 Season

Bucknell's 2018 season (1-10) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 1-10
Final result No postseason
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -16.1 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
L vs Will Mar 7-14 L vs Sacr Hea 14-30 L @ Pennsy 17-34 L @ Villan 7-49 W @ Holy Cro 19-16 L vs Colgate 3-27 L @ Monmouth 19-36 L vs Lafaye 27-29 L @ Lehigh 17-45 L @ George 3-14 L vs Fordham 14-17
Defining moments
The statement

The 2018 season's largest margin: Bucknell 19, Holy Cross 16. A 3-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Bucknell 7, Villanova 49. A 42-point margin the season is remembered by.

"'Ray Bucknell!"
— Bucknell fanbase voice · 2018· synthesized
What it meant

2018 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.