The 60th edition of the Liberty Bowl took place on December 31, 2018 at 2:45 p.m. EST and aired on ESPN.

Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, hosted the game for the 54th straight year.

[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.

Oklahoma State received and accepted a bid to the Liberty Bowl on December 2.