Liberty Flames NCAA Football News

The Big South Conference handed out its individual awards for football and a number of them went to the Boiling Springs area.

Fifteen players - all seniors - represented Liberty on the 2008 All-Big South football teams.

Former Warwick High School place-kicker Matt Bevins of Liberty was named Tuesday to the All-Big South Conference first team after leading the Flames in scoring this season with 107 points.

The final weekend of Football Championship Subdivision play was so crazy that one writer came up with a rather novel idea for filling the last spot in the 16-team playoff field on Saturday evening.

Jordan Gush caught a 10-yard touchdown pass from Michael Coulter with 30 seconds remaining to lead Stony Brook to a 36-33 victory over Liberty and a share of the Big South title on Saturday.

John Paglia kicked a 43-yard field goal in overtime to help Charleston Southern take a 30-27 victory over Stony Brook on Saturday.

The Liberty Flames remain number 16 in the FCS polls this week following their win over Gardner Webb.

Thomas Porter ran for two touchdowns as Ferrum held off Maryville 21-14 on Saturday.

Tommy Beecher threw three touchdown passes and Mike Brown rushed for two scores to help Liberty pull away from Gardner-Webb 51-28 Saturday.

Coastal Carolina scored a touchdown on the first drive of the game, but tailback Tommy Fraser fumbled away a pitch on the Chanticleers' next drive.

A.J. Toscano threw four touchdowns as Charleston Southern earned a 46-32 win over Presbyterian on Saturday.

Pain was etched on Tim Maypray's face. Some of it was physical. More wasn't. VMI has made a season out of would'ves and could'ves. But Saturday was the worst.

Liberty 54, Virginia Military Institute 14. LYNCHBURG, Va. Matt Bevins kicked four field goals and seven players scored for Libert9 in a 54-14 rou4 of Virginia Militar9 Institute on Saturda9 night.

Judging by the crowd at Williams Stadium after halftime, it would appear the game was over.

Charleston Southern scored 10 points in the final 6 minutes, capped by B.J. Hackworth's 12-yard run, to beat Virginia Military Institute 31-21 on Saturday.

Kevin Whitlock called the last pass he threw, across his body in a freshman game three years ago, a duck.

Andreakis Allen and SirChauncey Holloway each ran for two touchdowns, and Liberty beat Presbyterian 55-19 on Saturday.

After dodging a bullet last week at Charleston Southern, the Liberty Flames return home the next two weekends to host Presbyterian and VMI.

R.J. Archer threw two touchdowns and Jonathan Grimes ran for a score to lead William & Mary in a 24-3 win over James Madison on Saturday.

In its previous two wins over Charleston Southern, Liberty outscored the Buccaneers 92-to-10. Saturday's game was A LOT closer than that.