The Flames are the football team of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. They compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the NCAA and play as an Independent, although from 2023 they will join Conference USA.
Liberty has won 8 conference titles, all dating from the school's time in the Big South Conference of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The Flames gained provisional membership of the FBS in 2018 and full membership with bowl eligibility in 2019. Since then, the team has competed in 3 bowl games and won each of them.
Liberty University is known for its status as an Evangelical Christian college and its large number of online students. The school enforces a number of strict behavioural rules on its residential students, including bans on premarital sex, cohabitation, alcohol, and tobacco use, and a curfew on students under 20 years old.
The Flames play their home games at Williams Stadium and have been coached by Hugh Freeze since 2018.
