On August 31, the Southern Miss Golden Eagles will begin their 2024 college football schedule against Kentucky. See below for more info.

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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 playing the 44th-ranked schedule this year.
• In terms of difficulty — and based on its opponents’ projected win total this season — Southern Miss will be facing the 41st-ranked schedule this year.
• Using their Sun Belt opponents’ combined win total last year, the Golden Eagles will be playing the 57th-ranked conference schedule in terms of toughness.
• Southern Miss has a schedule that includes 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 had less than four wins).
• The Golden Eagles will play 10 teams who made a 2023 bowl game on their schedule in 2024.

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Southern Miss Stat Insights (2023)

• Despite sporting a bottom-25 defense that ranked 22nd-worst in FBS (420.8 yards allowed per game) last season, the Golden Eagles put up better results on offense, ranking 89th in FBS by putting up 353.4 yards per game.
• With 35.8 points allowed per game on defense, which ranked sixth-worst in FBS last season, Southern Miss was forced to lean on its 96th-ranked offense (23.2 points per contest) to keep it in games.
• From an offensive standpoint, the Golden Eagles ranked 103rd in FBS with 190.7 passing yards per game last season. Meanwhile, they ranked 98th in passing yards allowed per contest (242).
• Southern Miss had the 59th-ranked rushing offense last year (162.8 rushing yards per game), and it was worse defensively, ranking 21st-worst with 178.8 rushing yards allowed per game.
• With 17 forced turnovers (73rd in FBS) against 16 turnovers committed (48th in FBS), Southern Miss (+1) had the 58th-ranked turnover margin in college football last season.

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