The Southern Miss Golden Eagles will open their 2024 college football schedule on August 31, against Kentucky. See below for more.

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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.
• Southern Miss will face the 41st-ranked schedule in college football, based on its opponents’ projected win total this year (71).
• The Golden Eagles will have the 57th-ranked conference schedule in college football, based on their Sun Belt opponents’ combined win total last season (54).
• Southern Miss has a schedule that features 10 games in 2024 against teams with winning records in 2023 (two of those teams won nine or more games and one of them picked up three or fewer wins).
• The Golden Eagles’ schedule in 2024 includes 10 returning teams who played in a bowl game.

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Southern Miss Stat Insights (2023)

• The Golden Eagles had the 89th-ranked offense last year (353.4 yards per game), and they were less effective on defense, ranking 22nd-worst with 420.8 yards allowed per game.
• Despite sporting 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 on offense, ranking 96th in FBS by totaling 23.2 points per game.
• The Golden Eagles totaled 190.7 passing yards per game on offense last season (103rd in FBS), and they surrendered 242.0 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 the other side of the ball, ranking 59th in FBS by totaling 162.8 rushing yards per game.
• Southern Miss had the 58th-ranked turnover margin in college football last season at +1, forcing 17 turnovers (73rd in FBS) while turning it over 16 times (48th in FBS).

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