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2018 Liberty Flames football
2018 Liberty Flames football
Conference	Independent
Record	6–6
Head coach	Turner Gill (7th season);
Offensive coordinator	Joe Dailey
Co-defensive coordinator	Robert Wimberly
Co-defensive coordinator	Vantz Singletary
Home stadium	Williams Stadium
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2018 Liberty Flames football team

American college football season

The 2018 Liberty Flames football team represented Liberty University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by seventh-year head coach Turner Gill and played their home games at Williams Stadium. This was the Flames first year as a member of the FBS. Playing as an independent, they finished the season 6–6. As part of their transition to FBS, since they won six games, Liberty would have been allowed to apply for bowl eligibility had there not been enough teams with non-losing records to fill the available bowl games, but there were already four more teams than could be accommodated.

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On December 3, head coach Turner Gill retired.^[1] He finished at Liberty with a seven-year record of 47–35. On December 7, Liberty hired former Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze for the job.^[2]

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[3] Game originally scheduled for September 15, but moved in anticipation of Hurricane Florence.

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Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 1	6:00 p.m.	Old Dominion	Williams Stadium Lynchburg, VA	ESPN3	W 52–10	20,425
September 8	12:00 p.m.	at Army	Michie Stadium West Point, NY	CBSSN	L 14–38	25,133
September 22	6:00 p.m.	North Texas	Williams Stadium Lynchburg, VA	ESPN3	L 7–47	14,112
September 29	6:00 p.m.	at New Mexico	Dreamstyle Stadium Albuquerque, NM		W 52–43	18,804
October 6	8:00 p.m.	at New Mexico State	Aggie Memorial Stadium Las Cruces, NM	Aggie Vision	L 41–49	8,337
October 13	2:00 p.m.	Troy	Williams Stadium Lynchburg, VA	ESPN3	W 22–16	17,389
October 20	2:00 p.m.	Idaho State	Williams Stadium Lynchburg, VA	ESPN3	W 48–41	16,502
November 3	3:30 p.m.	at UMass	McGuirk Stadium Hadley, MA	ELVN	L 59–62 ^3OT	10,338
November 10	3:00 p.m.	at Virginia	Scott Stadium Charlottesville, VA	ACCRSN	L 24–45	41,485
November 17	4:00 p.m.	at Auburn	Jordan–Hare Stadium Auburn, AL	SECN Alternate	L 0–53	81,129
November 24	2:00 p.m.	New Mexico State	Williams Stadium Lynchburg, VA	ESPN3	W 28–21	16,022
December 1^{[lower-alpha 1]}	2:00 p.m.	Norfolk State	Williams Stadium Lynchburg, VA	ESPN3	W 52–17	13,243
Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

	1	2	3	4	Total
Monarchs	3	7	0	0	10
Flames	14	0	10	28	52

	1	2	3	4	Total
Flames	0	0	14	0	14
Black Knights	14	3	7	14	38

	1	2	3	4	Total
Flames	21	21	0	10	52
Lobos	7	3	13	20	43

	1	2	3	4	Total
Flames	7	7	14	13	41
Aggies	7	14	14	14	49

2018_Liberty_Flames_football_team

2018 Liberty Flames football team

Schedule

Game summaries

Old Dominion

At Army

North Texas

At New Mexico

At New Mexico State

Troy

Idaho State

At UMass

At Virginia

At Auburn

New Mexico State

Norfolk State

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Team	W		L	W		L
No. 5 Notre Dame ^		–		12	–	1
No. 19 Army		–		11	–	2
BYU		–		7	–	6
Liberty		–		6	–	6
UMass		–		4	–	8
New Mexico State		–		3	–	9

^ – College Football Playoff participant Rankings from AP Poll

	1	2	3	4	Total
Mean Green	14	7	6	20	47
Flames	0	7	0	0	7

	1	2	3	4	OT	2OT	3OT	Total
Flames	14	10	0	21	7	7	0	59
Minutemen	14	10	7	14	7	7	3	62