The Southern Miss Golden Eagles will meet Kentucky on August 31, their first game of the 2024 college football schedule — keep scrolling for the full slate.

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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.
• According to its opponents’ projected win total this season (71), Southern Miss has the 41st-ranked schedule in college football.
• Based on their Sun Belt opponents’ combined win total last year (54), the Golden Eagles have the 57th-ranked conference schedule in college football.
• In 2024, Southern Miss will face 10 teams that had winning records last season, including two that won nine or more games, while facing one squad that picked up three or fewer wins a year ago.
• The Golden Eagles will clash with 10 teams in 2024 who played in a bowl game in 2023.

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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 offensively, ranking 89th in FBS by averaging 353.4 yards per game.
• With 35.8 points allowed per game on defense, which ranked sixth-worst in FBS last season, Southern Miss had to lean on its 96th-ranked offense (23.2 points per contest) to keep it in games.
• The Golden Eagles put up 190.7 passing yards per game on offense last year (103rd in FBS), and they gave up 242 passing yards per game (98th) on the other side of the ball.
• Despite having a bottom-25 run defense that ranked 21st-worst in FBS (178.8 rushing yards allowed per game) last season, Southern Miss had more success on offense, ranking 59th in FBS by putting up 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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