Bucknell·Patriot

2024 — The 2024 Season

Bucknell's 2024 season (6-6) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 6-6
Final result No postseason
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -9.4 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
L @ Navy 21-49 W @ VMI 35-28 L vs Merrim 21-31 W vs Marist 34-18 W @ Lehigh 38-35 L @ Pennsy 21-31 L vs Cornell 21-34 L @ George 20-21 W vs Lafaye 21-14 W vs Fordham 28-27 L @ Holy Cro 38-40 W vs Colgate 48-34
Defining moments
The statement

The 2024 season's largest margin: Bucknell 34, Marist 18. A 16-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Bucknell 21, Navy 49. A 28-point margin the season is remembered by.

"'Ray Bucknell!"
— Bucknell fanbase voice · 2024· synthesized
What it meant

2024 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.