Bucknell·Patriot

2016 — The 2016 Season

Bucknell's 2016 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+ -11.4 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W @ Marist 26-10 L @ Duquesne 19-30 L vs Cornell 16-24 L vs VMI 17-23 W @ Holy Cro 21-20 L vs Colgate 7-27 W vs Lafaye 42-17 L @ Char Sou 28-49 L @ Lehigh 13-20 W @ George 21-7 L vs Fordham 22-36
Defining moments
The statement

The 2016 season's largest margin: Bucknell 42, Lafayette 17. A 25-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

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

"'Ray Bucknell!"
— Bucknell fanbase voice · 2016· synthesized
What it meant

2016 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.