Bucknell·Patriot

2023 — The 2023 Season

Bucknell's 2023 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+ -10.5 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
L @ Jame Mad 3-38 W vs VMI 21-13 L vs Pennsy 21-37 L @ Lafaye 22-56 L vs Holy Cro 27-55 W @ Cornell 21-13 L vs Lehigh 18-27 W @ Colgate 49-34 L @ Fordham 21-27 L vs George 47-50 W @ Marist 38-21
Defining moments
The statement

The 2023 season's largest margin: Bucknell 38, Marist 21. A 17-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Bucknell 3, James Madison 38. A 35-point margin the season is remembered by.

"'Ray Bucknell!"
— Bucknell fanbase voice · 2023· synthesized
What it meant

2023 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.