STATESBORO - Georgia Southern Director of Athletics Tom Kleinlein announced Friday the addition of a home-and-home football series with Liberty University. The Eagles will host the Flames in Statesboro on Oct. 4, 2025 before traveling to Lynchburg, Virginia, for a game against LU on Oct. 10, 2026.
Georgia Southern and Liberty have met three times with the Eagles claiming all three games. GS is 1-0 in Lynchburg, holding on for a 7-6 win in 1995.
GS is 23-2 all-time against teams from the state of Virginia and 11-1 in games played in the Commonwealth. The Eagles own a six-game winning streak in Virginia dating back to 1985. It will be the first game in Virginia since the 2012 FCS Playoff Game at Old Dominion in Norfolk.
This is the first game announced for the 2025 season and Liberty joins Houston on the 2026 slate.
Liberty began football in 1973, and after eight years as an NAIA independent, the Flames moved to NCAA Division II and bumped up to the I-AA, now FCS, level in 1989. Liberty joined its first conference in 2002 with membership in the Big South. The Flames won a share of the conference championship in eight of the last 10 years with an NCAA playoff appearance in 2014. Liberty will play a full FBS schedule as an independent in 2019.
For now, this is how the announced future non-conference slate stacks up through 2027:
2018
Sept. 1 - vs. Presbyterian College (Paulson)
Sept. 8 - vs. UMass (Paulson)
Sept. 15 - at Clemson (Clemson, S.C.)
Oct. 20 - at New Mexico State (Las Cruces, N.M.)
2019
Aug. 31 - at LSU (Baton Rouge, La.)
Sept. 7 - vs. Maine (Paulson)
Sept. 14 - at Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Oct. 19 - vs. New Mexico State (Paulson)
2020
Sept. 5 - at Boise State (Boise, Idaho)
Sept. 12 - vs. Campbell (Paulson)
Sept. 19 - vs. Florida Atlantic (Paulson)
Oct. 31 - at Ole Miss (Oxford, Miss.)
2021
Sept. 18 - at Arkansas (Fayetteville, Ark.)
Sept. 25 - at Florida Atlantic (Boca Raton, Fla.)
Nov. 20 - BYU (Paulson)
TBA - Home vs. FCS
2022
Sept. 10 - at Nebraska (Lincoln, Neb.)
Sept. 17 - at UAB (Birmingham, Ala.)
Sept. 24 - Ball State (Paulson)
TBA - Home vs. FCS
2023
Sept. 9 - UAB (Paulson)
Sept. 23 - at Ball State (Muncie, Ind.)
TBA - Away vs. FBS
TBA - Home vs. FCS
2024
Aug. 31 - Boise State (Paulson)
Oct. 12 - at BYU (Provo, Utah)
TBA - Away vs. FBS
TBA - Home vs. FCS
2025
Oct. 4 - Liberty (Statesboro)
TBA - Away vs. FBS
TBA - Away vs. FBS
TBA - Home vs. FCS
2026
Sept. 26 - Houston (Statesboro)
Oct. 10 - at Liberty (Lynchburg, Va.)
TBA - Away vs. FBS
TBA - Home vs. FCS
2027
Sept. 18 - at Houston (Houston, Texas)
TBA - Away vs. FBS
TBA - Home vs. FBS
TBA - Home vs. FCS
* - subject to change
