2012 Liberty Flames football team

American college football season

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2012 Big South Conference football standings
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Team	W		L	W		L
No. 10 Stony Brook +^	5	–	1	10	–	3
Coastal Carolina +^	5	–	1	8	–	5
Liberty +	5	–	1	6	–	5
Charleston Southern	3	–	3	5	–	6
Gardner–Webb	2	–	4	3	–	8
VMI	1	–	5	2	–	9
Presbyterian	0	–	6	2	–	9

$ – Conference champion ^ – FCS playoff participant Rankings from The Sports Network poll

The 2012 Liberty Flames football team represented Liberty University in the 2012 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Turner Gill and played their home games at Williams Stadium. They were a member of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 6–5, 5–1 in Big South play to claim a share of the Big South Conference championship with Coastal Carolina and Stony Brook. Despite the conference title, the Flames were not invited to the FCS playoffs.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 1	6:30 pm	at Wake Forest*	BB&T Field Winston-Salem, NC	ESPN3	L 17–20	27,652
September 8	7:00 pm	Norfolk State*	Williams Stadium Lynchburg, VA	Flames Sports Network/MASN2	L 24–31	15,826
September 15	3:00 pm	at No. 14 Montana*	Washington–Grizzly Stadium Missoula, MT	Flames Sports Network/ALT/MASN	L 14–34	24,991
September 22	7:00 pm	No. 16 Lehigh*	Williams Stadium Lynchburg, VA	Flames Sports Network/MASN (JIP)	L 26–28	17,139
October 6	3:30 pm	Gardner–Webb	Williams Stadium Lynchburg, VA	Flames Sports Network/MASN	W 42–35	18,239
October 13	2:00 pm	at Presbyterian	Bailey Memorial Stadium Clinton, SC	Flames Sports Network/MASN2	W 56–7	5,335
October 20	3:30 pm	Concord*	Williams Stadium Lynchburg, VA	Flames Sports Network/MASN2	W 21–13	18,643
October 27	3:30 pm	at Coastal Carolina	Brooks Stadium Conway, SC (rivalry)	Flames Sports Network/MASN2	L 12–36	6,732
November 3	3:30 pm	Charleston Southern	Williams Stadium Lynchburg, VA	Flames Sports Network/MASN2	W 26–12	13,644
November 10	3:30 pm	No. 6 Stony Brook	Williams Stadium Lynchburg, VA	MASN; ESPN3	W 28–14	14,419
November 17	1:30 pm	at VMI	Alumni Memorial Field Lexington, VA	ESPN3	W 33–14	5,202
*Non-conference game Rankings from The Sports Network Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

v t e Liberty Flames football
Venues	City Stadium (1973–1989) Williams Stadium (1989–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Coastal Carolina
Culture & lore	Sparky "Fan the Flames!" Spirit of the Mountain
People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

v t e Big South Conference football champions
Gardner–Webb (2002) Gardner–Webb (2003) Coastal Carolina (2004) Charleston Southern & Coastal Carolina (2005) Coastal Carolina (2006) Liberty (2007) Liberty (2008) Liberty & Stony Brook (2009) Coastal Carolina, Liberty, & Stony Brook (2010) Stony Brook (2011) Coastal Carolina, Liberty, & Stony Brook (2012) Coastal Carolina & Liberty (2013) Coastal Carolina & Liberty (2014) Charleston Southern (2015) Charleston Southern & Liberty (2016) Kennesaw State (2017) Kennesaw State (2018) Monmouth (2019) Monmouth (2020) Kennesaw State (2021) Gardner–Webb (2022)

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