2018 Liberty Flames football team

2018 Liberty Flames football
Conference Independent
2018 record 3–3
Head coach Turner Gill (7th season)
Offensive coordinator Joe Dailey
Co-defensive coordinator Robert Wimberly
Co-defensive coordinator Vantz Singletary
Home stadium Williams Stadium
(Capacity: 25,000)
2018 Division I FBS independents football records
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
No. 4 Notre Dame    –      7 –0  
Army    –      4 –2  
BYU    –      4 –3  
Liberty*    –      3 –3  
UMass    –      2 –5  
New Mexico State    –      2 –5  
  • * – Ineligible for postseason play due to FCS-to-FBS transition rules
As of October 15, 2018; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2018 Liberty Flames football team represents Liberty University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They are led by seventh-year head coach Turner Gill and play their home games at Williams Stadium. The 2018 Flames are now playing as a member of the FBS for the first time, as an independent, but are ineligible for postseason play this season, due to the FCS-to-FBS transition rules unless they have at least 6 eligible wins and there are not enough bowl-eligible teams to fill all the spots.

Previous season

In their final season in the FCS as a member of the Big South Conference, the Flames finished the 2017 season 6–5, 2–3 in Big South play to finish in fourth place.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteTVResultAttendance
September 16:00 p.m.Old Dominion
ESPN3W 52–1020,425
September 812:00 p.m.at Army
CBSSNL 14–3825,133
September 226:00 p.m.North Texas
  • Williams Stadium
  • Lynchburg, VA
ESPN3L 7–4714,112
September 296:00 p.m.at New Mexico
W 52–4318,804
October 68:00 p.m.at New Mexico State
Aggie VisionL 41–498,337
October 132:00 p.m.Troy
  • Williams Stadium
  • Lynchburg, VA
ESPN3W 22–1617,389
October 202:00 p.m.Idaho Statedagger
  • Williams Stadium
  • Lynchburg, VA
ESPN3
November 33:30 p.m.at UMass
ELVN
November 10at Virginia
November 17at Auburn
November 242:00 p.m.New Mexico State
  • Williams Stadium
  • Lynchburg, VA
ESPN3
December 1[lower-alpha 1]Norfolk State
  • Williams Stadium
  • Lynchburg, VA
  1. ↑ Game originally scheduled for September 15, but moved in anticipation of Hurricane Florence.

Game summaries

Old Dominion

1 2 3 4 Total
Monarchs 3 7 0 0 10
Flames 14 0 10 28 52
Overall record Last meeting Result
0–1 October 5, 2013 ODU, 21–17

at Army

1 2 3 4 Total
Flames 0 0 14 0 14
Black Knights 14 3 7 14 38
Overall record Last meeting Result
First meeting

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North Texas

1 2 3 4 Total
Mean Green 14 7 6 20 47
Flames 0 7 0 0 7
Overall record Last meeting Result
First meeting

at New Mexico

1 2 3 4 Total
Flames 21 21 0 10 52
Lobos 7 3 13 20 43
Overall record Last meeting Result
First meeting

at New Mexico State

1 2 3 4 Total
Flames 7 7 14 13 41
Aggies 7 14 14 14 49
Overall record Last meeting Result
First meeting

Troy

1 2 3 4 Total
Trojans 7 3 3 3 16
Flames 0 14 0 8 22
Overall record Last meeting Result
1–1 October 9, 1993 TROY, 35–13

Idaho State

1 2 3 4 Total
Bengals 0
Flames 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
First meeting

at UMass

1 2 3 4 Total
Flames 0
Minutemen 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
First meeting

at Virginia

1 2 3 4 Total
Flames 0
Cavaliers 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
First meeting

at Auburn

1 2 3 4 Total
Flames 0
Tigers 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
First meeting

New Mexico State

1 2 3 4 Total
Aggies 0
Flames 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
0–1 October 6, 2018 NMSU, 49–41

Norfolk State

1 2 3 4 Total
Spartans 0
Flames 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
4–2 September 6, 2014 LU, 17–0

This game was originally scheduled for September 15, but it was rescheduled due to Hurricane Florence.

References

  1. ↑ "2018 Liberty Flames Football Schedule". FB Schedules.
  2. ↑ "2018 Season Football Schedule". Liberty Flames Athletics.
  3. ↑ Walls, Dave. "Liberty dethrones Old Dominion, 52-10, for first FBS win". WSET. Retrieved 2018-09-02.
  4. ↑ "Liberty vs. Army - Game Summary - September 8, 2018". ESPN. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
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