The 2023 ESPN Football Power Index projects Liberty to finish the upcoming season under first year head coach Jamey Chadwell at 8.1-4.3 (so basically 8 wins). According to the metric, the Flames have a 0.3% chance to go undefeated and a 93.4% chance to win six games or more and advance to a fifth straight bowl game.
The metric also makes projects for each game of the 2023 Liberty football schedule. let’s take a look at the percentages for a Flames’ victory in each game on the schedule.
For those that aren’t familiar with the FPI, you can read the definition of the index here.
Football Power Index (abbreviated as FPI) is a predictive rating system developed by ESPN that measures team strength and uses it to forecast game and season results. Each team’s FPI rating is composed of predictive offensive, defensive, and special teams value, as measured by a function of expected points added (EPA). That rating is the basis for FPI’s game-level and season-level projections.
Below, you can see the likelihood of Liberty football winning each of their games on the 2023 football schedule.
LIBERTY’S GAME-BY-GAME PREDICTIONS
74.9% – Sep. 02 vs Bowling Green
82.8% – Sep. 09 vs New Mexico State*
44.4% – Sep. 16 at Buffalo
65.9% – Sep. 23 at Florida International*
85.9% – Oct. 05 vs Sam Houston State*
70.4% – Oct. 10 at Jacksonville State*
63.3% – Oct. 17 vs Middle Tennessee*
34.6% – Oct. 24 at Western Kentucky*
62.1% – Nov. 4 vs Louisiana Tech*
64.8% – Nov. 11 vs Old Dominion
83.7% – Nov. 18 vs UMass
55.2% – Nov. 25 at UTEP*
*CUSA game
