Bucknell·Patriot

2025 — The Correction

2025 is a losing-side chapter for Bucknell. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.

Record 5-7
Final result Losing season
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -10.7 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
L @ Air For 13-49 W @ Marist 34-23 W vs VMI 35-28 L vs Lehigh 24-41 W vs Sain Fra 30-23 W vs Richmond 33-28 L @ Lafaye 24-62 L @ Cornell 20-30 L vs George 24-31 W @ Fordham 37-19 L vs Holy Cro 20-37 L @ Colgate 19-38
Defining moments
The statement

The 2025 season's largest margin: Bucknell 37, Fordham 19. A 18-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Bucknell 24, Lafayette 62. A 38-point margin the season is remembered by.

"'Ray Bucknell!"
— Bucknell fanbase voice · 2025· synthesized
What it meant

2025 sits in Bucknell's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.