2016 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team


The 2016 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team represented the University of Southern Mississippi in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Golden Eagles played their home games at the M. M. Roberts Stadium in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and competed in the West Division of Conference USA. They were led by first-year head coach Jay Hopson. They finished the season 7–6, 4–4 in C-USA play to finish in third place in the West Division. They were invited to the New Orleans Bowl where they defeated Louisiana–Lafayette.

Schedule

Southern Miss announced its 2016 football schedule on February 4, 2016. The 2016 schedule consists of 6 home and away games in the regular season. The Golden Eagles will host C–USA foes Charlotte, Marshall, Louisiana Tech, and Rice, and will travel to North Texas, Old Dominion, UTEP, and UTSA.
The team will play four non–conference games, two home games against Savannah State from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and Troy from the Sun Belt Conference, and two road games against Kentucky and LSU both from the Southeastern Conference.

Game summaries

@ Kentucky

Overall recordLast meetingResult
0–21986L 0–32

Savannah State

Troy

Overall recordLast meetingResult
7–12008W 30–27 OT

@ UTEP

Overall recordLast meetingResult
4–42015W 34–13

Rice

Overall recordLast meetingResult
2–42015W 65–10

@ UTSA

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–12015W 32–10

@ LSU

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–11994W 20–18

Marshall

Overall recordLast meetingResult
5–62015L 10–31

Charlotte

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–02015W 44–10

@ Old Dominion

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–02015W 56–31

@ North Texas

Overall recordLast meetingResult
6–42015W 49–14

Louisiana Tech

Overall recordLast meetingResult
32–152015W 58–24

Louisiana–Lafayette (New Orleans Bowl)

Overall recordLast meetingResult
38–11–12008W 51–31

Team players drafted in the NFL