In their 2024 season opener, on August 31, the Southern Miss Golden Eagles will meet Kentucky. For the full Southern Miss schedule, see below.

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2024 Southern Miss Game and TV Schedule

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Southern Miss 2024 Strength of Schedule

• In terms of difficulty, using their opponents’ combined win total last season, the Golden Eagles will be facing the 44th-ranked schedule this year.
• Using its opponents’ projected win total this year, Southern Miss will be playing the 41st-ranked schedule in terms of toughness.
• In terms of toughness, using their Sun Belt opponents’ combined win total last season, the Golden Eagles will be facing the 57th-ranked conference schedule this year.
• Southern Miss will play 10 games in 2024 against teams that finished over .500 in 2023 (two of those teams won nine or more games and one of them accumulated three or fewer wins).
• The Golden Eagles will have 10 games against teams who played in a bowl in 2023 bowl.

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Southern Miss Stat Insights (2023)

• With 420.8 yards allowed per game on defense, which ranked 22nd-worst in FBS, the Golden Eagles were forced to lean on their 89th-ranked offense (353.4 yards per contest) to keep them competitive last season.
• Southern Miss owned the 96th-ranked scoring offense last year (23.2 points per game), and it was less effective on defense, ranking sixth-worst with 35.8 points allowed per game.
• The Golden Eagles compiled 190.7 passing yards per game on offense last season (103rd in FBS), and they ranked 98th defensively with 242 passing yards allowed per game.
• Despite having a bottom-25 run defense that ranked 21st-worst in FBS (178.8 rushing yards allowed per game) last season, Southern Miss put up better results on the other side of the ball, ranking 59th in FBS by averaging 162.8 rushing yards per game.
• With 17 forced turnovers (73rd in FBS) against 16 turnovers committed (48th in FBS) last season, Southern Miss’ +1 turnover margin ranked 58th in college football.

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