{"id":6411,"date":"2023-11-25T22:01:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T03:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=6411"},"modified":"2023-11-25T22:01:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T03:01:40","slug":"liberty-football-finishes-1st-perfect-regular-season-in-programs-50-years-with-42-28-win-over-utep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=6411","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Football finishes 1st perfect regular season in program&#8217;s 50 years with 42-28 win over UTEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No. 22 Liberty completed the first undefeated regular season in the program&#8217;s 50-year history, with Quinton Cooley rushing for three touchdowns in a 42-28 victory over UTEP on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Kaidon Salter ran for a team-leading 94 yards and threw for a score as the Flames made their Conference USA debut by becoming the league&#8217;s third team to go 12-0, joining Tulane (1998) and Houston (2011). They are the first team Division I team from the state of Virginia to win 12 games.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty (8-0 C-USA), which rushed for a season-high 441 yards, will host New Mexico State in the conference championship game Friday, but likely will need a Tulane loss to have a shot at the Group of Five bid to the New Year&#8217;s Six bowls.<\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theintelligencer.com\/sports\/article\/liberty-finishes-1st-perfect-regular-season-in-18514467.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. 22 Liberty completed the first undefeated regular season in the program&#8217;s 50-year history, with Quinton Cooley rushing for three touchdo&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=6411\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty Football finishes 1st perfect regular season in program&#8217;s 50 years with 42-28 win over UTEP<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[502],"class_list":["post-6411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-football-finishes-st-perfect-regular-season-in-program-years-with-win-over-utep","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1Fp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6412,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411\/revisions\/6412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}