Liberty Flames football The Liberty Flames is a college football program that competes in NCAA Division I - FCS , in the Big South Conference . History . Liberty ' s football program is headed by Turner Gill who took over in December 2011 after previously being head coach at Kansas and Buffalo . Liberty plays their home games at Williams Stadium which has a capacity of 19 , 200 . Year - by - year results . " 2012 statistics not added to totals until end of season " Conference Championships . Liberty has won five Big South Conference championships . Conference affiliations : 2007 Big South Conference Champions . The Liberty Flames captured their first Big South Conference Football championship with a commanding 31 - 0 victory over Gardner - Webb University . The Flames capped off their second year under head coach Danny Rocco with an 8 - 3 record and an unblemished 4 - 0 Big South record to claim the title . The same week , The Liberty University Men ' s Soccer team beat Radford University 2 - 1 to capture the Big South Conference soccer title and their first appearance in the national tournament . Also that same week , the Liberty Women ' s Volleyball team shutout Winthrop in the finals of the Big South Volleyball tournament . it was the first conference championship for the volleyball team since 2001 . The Liberty Men ' s and Women ' s cross country teams also won the Big South Championship with Josh McDougal , Jordan McDougal and Jarvis Jelen sweeping the top 3 positions in the men ' s race for the third straight year . 2008 Big South Conference Champions . Topping its 2007 performance , Liberty ran its unbeaten Big South streak to 11 - straight games , finishing back - to - back conference championship seasons with a 30 - 10 victory over Gardner - Webb . The Flames finished with a 10 - 2 record on the year and finished the conference slate unbeaten at 5 - 0 . Liberty ’ s victory allowed the Flames to become the first team in Big South history to win five conference games in a season and to join Gardner - Webb as the only two teams to post consecutive unbeaten seasons . Liberty finished ranked 15th in the FCS Coaches Poll and 14th in the Sports Network Poll . 2009 Big South Conference Co - Champions . Undefeated in Big South play for 2009 , the Flames just needed to capture a win over Stony Brook in the season finale to secure a 3rd straight Big South Conference Championship . Stony Brook who had only lost one game in Big South play ( a 30 - 27 overtime loss to Charleston Southern the previous week ) for 2009 could claim half of the Big South Championship with a win over Liberty . The Seawolves didn ' t back down from the challenge and won the game 36 - 33 to share the 2009 Big South Championship with the Liberty Flames . 2010 Big South Conference Co - Champions . Liberty again became conference co - champions in 2010 . They were looking to beat Stony Brook in the season finale to win the 2010 Big South Championship but they first had to beat rival Coastal Carolina . Coastal beat Liberty for the first time since 2006 then the Flames bounced back the next week to secure a win over Stony Brook and a share of the conference championship ( 3 way tie with Coastal Carolina and Stony Brook ) . 2012 Big South Conference Co - Champions . Liberty became the conference co - champion for the fifth time in 2012 . After starting off 2 - 0 in conference play , Liberty traveled to Cosatl Carolina , where they lost to the Chanticleers 36 - 12 , bringing their overall record to 3 - 5 . Liberty would then play then ninth ranked Stony Brook , beating them 28 - 14 , also extending their at home conference win streak which dates back to 2006 . In order to win a share at the Big South title , they would have to beat the Virginia Military Institute Keydets . Liberty won the game 33 - 14 , and won a share of the title along with Stony Brook and Costal Carolina with a record of 6 - 5 ( 5 - 1 in conference play ) . Liberty vs Coastal Carolina Rivalry . Series tied 5 - 5