New Non-Conference Opponent for 2020 and 2023

[mbenecke]

According to @BG_Football, we have added the Liberty University Flames to the 2020 and 2023 non-conference schedules. The 2020 contest will be held in Bowling Green, while the 2023 game will be an away contest.

The 2020 non-conference slate now has us visiting Ohio State on 9/5, visiting Illinois on 9/19, and hosting Liberty on 10/3.

The 2023 contest is the first to be scheduled for our non-conference slate that year, and it will take place on 9/2.

Source for this news: https://twitter.com/BG_Football/status/ ... 4379281408" target="_blank

Let me know your thoughts! Go Falcons!

[footballguy51]

We are traveling to Liberty? This has to be a financial decision. No other reason for us to travel to an FCS school.

[BGSU33]

We are traveling to Liberty? This has to be a financial decision. No other reason for us to travel to an FCS school.

No, Liberty will be moving up to the FBS. They announced it about a year or so ago and I believe they will be in the FBS in 2019. Right now they plan to move up as an independent. I actually like this addition to the future schedule after all of the heavyweights we have scheduled for years to come. Liberty also did a recent stadium expansion and renovation and it turned out very nice.

[Flipper]

Th way that stadium reno turned out..they'd be justified in looking down their noses at us.

No wait...I forgot about our fence!!

[footballguy51]

We are traveling to Liberty? This has to be a financial decision. No other reason for us to travel to an FCS school.

No, Liberty will be moving up to the FBS. They announced it about a year or so ago and I believe they will be in the FBS in 2019. Right now they plan to move up as an independent. I actually like this addition to the future schedule after all of the heavyweights we have scheduled for years to come. Liberty also did a recent stadium expansion and renovation and it turned out very nice.

Hadn't heard about that. Well, then this is a good home and home. I hope we beat them both times.

[Rollo83]

I am pretty sure we can kick his ass...

[Dayons_Den]

Is Sam Rutigliano still their head coach?

[BGFalconfromCincy]

There current head coach is former Buffalo head coach Turner Gill

[BGSU33]

Th way that stadium reno turned out..they'd be justified in looking down their noses at us.

No wait...I forgot about our fence!!

And Liberty's stadiums isn't even the most impressive of the FCS stadiums in Virginia, take a look at how JMU's recent expansion/renovation turned out (aside from the one old grandstand the rest of the facility looks like a Power Five venue):

[Schadenfreude]

Among the schools that have agreed to play games at Liberty are Syracuse, Buffalo, New Mexico, Southern Mississippi, Army, Marshall, Duke, Wake Forest, Virginia, and Virginia Tech.

http://www.liberty.edu/flames/index.cfm?PID=37396" target="_blank

[BGSU33]

Liberty just beat Baylor in Waco. And JMU manhandled East Carolina in Greenville.

[gmartin]

Liberty just beat Baylor in Waco. And JMU manhandled East Carolina in Greenville.

Liberty is still FCS this year as well.

[Schadenfreude]

If we ever decide to add a school, I would welcome James Madison.

[MarkL]

I've been a proponent of Marshall and WKU for a while. I'd gladly take JMU if they were interested.

[gmartin]

No to Marshall. They screwed the MAC too many times. WKU I would take.