Bucknell·Patriot

2021 — The 2021 Season

Bucknell's 2021 season (1-10) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 1-10
Final result No postseason
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -15.4 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
L @ Sacr Hea 0-21 L @ Villan 3-55 L vs Pennsy 6-30 W vs Cornell 21-10 L @ Lafaye 0-27 L @ Fordham 21-66 L vs George 21-29 L @ Colgate 10-33 L vs Lehigh 6-38 L @ Army 10-63 L vs Holy Cro 6-45
Defining moments
The statement

The 2021 season's largest margin: Bucknell 21, Cornell 10. A 11-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Bucknell 10, Army 63. A 53-point margin the season is remembered by.

"'Ray Bucknell!"
— Bucknell fanbase voice · 2021· synthesized
What it meant

2021 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.