On August 31, the Southern Miss Golden Eagles will open their 2024 college football schedule versus Kentucky. Keep scrolling 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, based on their opponents’ combined win total last season, the Golden Eagles will be facing the 44th-ranked schedule this year.
• Based on its opponents’ projected win total this year, Southern Miss will be facing the 41st-ranked schedule in terms of toughness.
• The Golden Eagles will face the 57th-ranked conference schedule in college football, based on their Sun Belt opponents’ combined win total last season (54).
• Southern Miss has 10 games scheduled against teams that finished with winning records in 2023, including two teams that had nine or more wins and one with less than four wins last season.
• The Golden Eagles will face 10 teams in 2024 who played in a bowl game in 2023.

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Southern Miss Stat Insights (2023)

• Despite having a bottom-25 defense that ranked 22nd-worst in FBS (420.8 yards allowed per game) last season, the Golden Eagles had more success on the other side of the ball, ranking 89th in FBS by totaling 353.4 yards per game.
• Despite having a bottom-25 scoring defense that ranked sixth-worst in FBS last season (35.8 points allowed per game), Southern Miss put up better results offensively, ranking 96th in FBS by totaling 23.2 points per game.
• The Golden Eagles put up 190.7 passing yards per game on offense last season, which ranked them 103rd in FBS. On the defensive side of the ball, they ranked 98th, giving up 242 passing yards per contest.
• With 178.8 rushing yards allowed per game on defense, which ranked 21st-worst in FBS, Southern Miss had to ask its 59th-ranked running game (162.8 rushing yards per contest) to keep it in games last season.
• Southern Miss ranked 58th in college football with a +1 turnover margin last season after forcing 17 turnovers (73rd in FBS) and committing 16 (48th in FBS).

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