In this week’s bowl projection update, College Football News is projecting Liberty to make a bowl game facing a familiar opponent.
CFN has the Flames playing Georgia Southern, who Liberty defeated in the 2019 Cure Bowl. This projection has the Flames and Eagles meeting each other in the LendingTree Bowl which is played at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama.
Liberty is entering its second season as a full-fledged FBS member and second season eligible to make a bowl game. Head coach Hugh Freeze and the Flames are looking to return to a bowl game for the second straight season, having defeated Georgia Southern, 23-16, in the 2019 Cure Bowl.
Following a two year secondary bowl agreement with the Cure Bowl, 2020 is the first of a multi-year, secondary bowl agreement Liberty has with ESPN which could put the Flames in one of at least six bowl games – Boca Raton Bowl, Camellia Bowl, Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl, Myrtle Beach Bowl, or the New Mexico Bowl.
