Bucknell·Patriot

2019 — The 2019 Season

Bucknell's 2019 season (3-8) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 3-8
Final result No postseason
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -12.2 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
L @ Temple 12-56 L @ Sacr Hea 10-30 L vs Villan 10-45 L vs Prince 23-56 L vs Holy Cro 14-21 W @ Colgate 32-14 L @ Towson 7-56 L @ Lafaye 17-21 W vs Lehigh 20-10 W vs George 20-17 L @ Fordham 14-31
Defining moments
The statement

The 2019 season's largest margin: Bucknell 32, Colgate 14. A 18-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Bucknell 7, Towson 56. A 49-point margin the season is remembered by.

"'Ray Bucknell!"
— Bucknell fanbase voice · 2019· synthesized
What it meant

2019 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.