| Game Name: | Liberty Bowl |
| Subheader: | 60th Liberty Bowl |
| Title Sponsor: | AutoZone |
| Date Game Played: | December 31 |
| Year Game Played: | 2018 |
| Football Season: | 2018 |
| Stadium: | Liberty Bowl |
| City: | Memphis, Tennessee |
| Visitor School: | University of Missouri |
| Visitor Name Short: | Missouri |
| Visitor Nickname: | Tigers |
| Visitor Record: | 8–4 |
| Visitor Conference: | SEC |
| Visitor Rank Ap: | 24 |
| Visitor Rank Coaches: | RV |
| Visitor Rank Cfp: | 23 |
| Visitor Coach: | Barry Odom |
| Visitor 1Q: | 3 |
| Visitor 2Q: | 13 |
| Visitor 3Q: | 3 |
| Visitor 4Q: | 14 |
| Home School: | Oklahoma State University |
| Home Name Short: | Oklahoma State |
| Home Nickname: | Cowboys |
| Home Record: | 6–6 |
| Home Conference: | Big 12 |
| Home Coach: | Mike Gundy |
| Home 1Q: | 7 |
| Home 2Q: | 7 |
| Home 3Q: | 21 |
| Home 4Q: | 3 |
| Mvp: | Taylor Cornelius (QB, Oklahoma State)[1] |
| Odds: | Missouri by 8[2] |
| Halftime: | The Four Tops |
| Referee: | Jerry McGinn (Big Ten) |
| Attendance: | 51,587[3] |
| Payout: | 4,295,000 [4] |
| Us Network: | ESPN & ESPN Radio |
| Us Announcers: | Clay Matvick, Dan Orlovsky and Paul Carcaterra (ESPN) Dave LaMont, Ray Bentley and Alyssa Lang (ESPN Radio) |
The 2018 Liberty Bowl was a college football bowl game between the #24 Missouri Tigers of the Southeastern Conference and the unranked Oklahoma State Cowboys of the Big 12 Conference. The 60th edition of the Liberty Bowl took place on December 31, 2018 at 2:45 p.m. EST and aired on ESPN.[5] It was one of the 2018–19 bowl games that concluded the 2018 FBS football season. Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, hosted the game for the 54th straight year. The game was sponsored by automobile parts and accessories store AutoZone and was officially known as the AutoZone Liberty Bowl.
The Cowboys beat the Tigers by a score of 38–33 to claim the school's first Liberty Bowl championship and their 19th bowl game overall.
The game was played between Missouri from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and Oklahoma State from the Big 12 Conference.[6] The two programs had previously met 52 times, with Missouri holding a 29–23 series lead.[7] Both programs were members of the Big Eight Conference for many years, and met annually from 1960 through 1997; their most recent prior meeting had been the 2014 Cotton Bowl Classic, won by Missouri.[7]
See main article: 2018 Missouri Tigers football team. Missouri received and accepted a bid to the Liberty Bowl on December 2.[6] The Tigers entered their third Liberty Bowl with an 8–4 record (4–4 in conference).
See main article: 2018 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team. Oklahoma State received and accepted a bid to the Liberty Bowl on December 2.[6] The Cowboys entered the bowl with a 6–6 record (3–6 in conference).