Bucknell·Patriot

2017 — The 2017 Season

Bucknell's 2017 season (5-6) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 5-6
Final result No postseason
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -13.5 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Marist 45-6 L vs Holy Cro 0-20 L @ Will Mar 9-30 W vs Sacr Hea 34-31 L vs Monmouth 13-35 W @ Cornell 26-18 W @ Lafaye 13-7 L @ Colgate 3-40 L vs Lehigh 21-42 W vs George 12-0 L @ Fordham 9-20
Defining moments
The statement

The 2017 season's largest margin: Bucknell 45, Marist 6. A 39-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Bucknell 3, Colgate 40. A 37-point margin the season is remembered by.

"'Ray Bucknell!"
— Bucknell fanbase voice · 2017· synthesized
What it meant

2017 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.