Sun Belt · Blake Anderson, year 2 (1-2) · M. M. Roberts Stadium · 36,000 · 26,246 avg in 2026
LastL 8–43 at Auburn · Sat Sep 12 · Jyaire Brown 1 sacks, 1 TFL, 4 tackles
Nextvs UConn · Sat Sep 19 · 7 pm ET · M. M. Roberts Stadium · UConn by 3 · first meeting on record · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
| Wk | Date | Us | Opp | Line | Opponent | Result | Record | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 5 | #57 | #167 | -19.5✓ | Alcorn State | W 49–3 142 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2 | Sep 12 | #57 | #69 | +32.5✗ | @Auburn | L 8–43 142 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 3 | Sep 19 | #59 | #116 | +3 | UConn | |||
| 4 | Sep 26 | #59 | #71 | @Tulane | ||||
| 6 | Oct 7 | @Troy | ||||||
| 7 | Oct 17 | Arkansas State | ||||||
| 8 | Oct 24 | Louisiana | ||||||
| 9 | Oct 31 | @UL Monroe | ||||||
| 10 | Nov 6 | James Madison | ||||||
| 11 | Nov 14 | @Louisiana Tech | ||||||
| 12 | Nov 21 | South Alabama | ||||||
| 13 | Nov 28 | @Old Dominion |
| Date | Opp | Result | Yds | TO | TOP | EPA/play | Success% | Explosive% | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12 | @Auburn | L 8–43 | 221 | 2 | 27:11 | -0.149 | 35.0% | 85.4% | |
| Sep 5 | Alcorn State | W 49–3 | 543 | 1 | 31:21 | +0.402 | 58.8% | 107.0% | |
| Season average (2 games) | 382 | 1.5 | +0.127 | 46.9% | 96.2% | ||||
Southern Miss is where Brett Favre learned to throw it — a Hattiesburg program that once strung together 21 straight winning seasons and now fights to remember it's a place that wins.
Eagle fans are tired of being filed under forgotten — the program that developed an NFL Hall of Famer and won for two straight decades, now treated like it never mattered. They'll tell you Southern Mi…
The season in chapters
What fans said
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What it is like to watch them2025 · 7-6 · last season
✓ measured from 13 games · ranks are among Sun Belt teams the same season
Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025
Cold. 5-5 over the last 10, and lost the last one.
Next Sep 19
vs UConn · at home
~ our read on style
Market outlook
Sportsbook consensus · best odds across multiple books · 2026-09-14
the open questioncan a new staff change the trajectory?
Charles Huff, who led Marshall before taking over Southern Miss's third head-coaching change in five years, inherits a 7-6 roster with 52% production returning.
our readbackground
Ethan Hampton arrives as Southern Miss's answer to a 7-6 record and Charles Huff's first full roster rebuild, with 52 portal additions solving nothing until the QB room is settled.
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Blake Anderson, who previously coached at Utah State, inherits a 7-6 roster with 90% production returning — Southern Miss hasn't won a conference title since 2010, and the stakes are clear.
our readdeveloping
Blake Anderson begins his tenure at Southern Miss with a 7-6 record and a program identity rooted in historic Mississippi football, though the bottom-tier power rating signals a rebuild ahead.
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Elijah Metcalf is a real deep-ball threat -- a high share of his targets come on throws past the sticks, and he catches those deep shots at a plus rate.
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Elijah Metcalf is a legitimate money-down target -- his 3rd-down conversion rate ranks among the position's best, and his per-target value holds up in that spot too.
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Bralon Brown is a real deep-ball threat -- a high share of his targets come on throws past the sticks.
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Carl Chester is a real deep-ball threat -- a high share of his targets come on throws past the sticks.
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Carl Chester: a garbage time merchant signal screened this season.
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Jaylin Carter is used almost exclusively underneath -- a low share of his targets are downfield shots.
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Micah Davis is a real deep-ball threat -- a high share of his targets come on throws past the sticks.
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Tychaun Chapman is a real deep-ball threat -- a high share of his targets come on throws past the sticks.
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Huff’s top-12 portal class targets WR, CB, and IOL — positions that define modern Mississippi football — while replacing Kinsler and Fuavai after a 7-6 debut season.
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Southern Miss: coordinator change reshaping a unit.
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Charles Huff begins his tenure at Southern Miss with a 7-6 record, signaling a shift as the program seeks to redefine its identity beyond its historic Sun Belt legacy.
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Outcome band · Southern Miss · 2026
Floor, base and ceiling come from the season-path projection, which plays out conference title games and the CFP — so a ceiling can run past 12 games.
Charles Huff took over as Southern Miss's head coach, replacing Reed Stringer. It is replaces 4-year head coach Will Hall (14-30). The hire has receded from the front page. The roster and recruiting pipeline are the real measure now. The discourse has moved on; what's left is the quiet work of building something.
The 'this hire changes everything' takes -- new-era believers making the case early.
The 'show me the body of work' counter -- resume gaps, scheme fits, and 'not that guy' reads.
Nothing in our corpus yet — this door stays open for when there is.
The second-order trail: commits, decommits, portal and staff knock-on from the hire.
Southern Miss signed a top-23 transfer-portal class — 52 additions headlined by Braylon Braxton (QB) from Marshall and Jacobe Robinson (QB) from Boston College. It is tied for the largest transfer-portal haul in FBS this cycle (52 additions). Portal pickups don't redshirt. The coverage sees this as a targeted, ready-to-contribute class built for snap competition, not depth-chart filler. The coverage reads this as a credible, targeted haul.
The 'portal class fills the gaps' believers -- upgrades at real positions of need.
The 'portal is a gamble' counter -- departure losses and the 'plug-and-play doesn't work' read.
Nothing in our corpus yet — this door stays open for when there is.
Only 1 of 95 board posts mention it — below our floor to call a community stance. Shown as texture, not a verdict.
The boards ≠ the fanbase: a vocal, self-selected slice.
Fan mood index · most recent r/cfb data
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Southern Miss is the Sun Belt program whose 1988-2010 consecutive-winning-seasons streak + Brett Favre 1987-1990 + The Rock M.M. Roberts Stadium define what historic-Mississippi-football looks like.
The program ledger
since 2025Southern Miss releases Week 1 depth chart
Depth chart's out and the DL pecking order is the one to watch — Anderson's at #108 nationally and the trench pressure problem doesn't hide once the starters are named.
Southern Miss veterans cleared to play in 2026
Three veterans fight their way back into the 2026 lineup via restraining order — with DL depth ranked 108th nationally, Anderson needed bodies who already know the system, not another developmental project.
Southern Miss OL Brock Roman medically retires
Roman's medical retirement punches another hole in a line Anderson's staff was already patching — depth class ranked #108 nationally doesn't give you margin for this kind of news in August.
Top 3 commits
Recruiting Footprint · 2026
MS leads the 2026 class with 8 commits. National footprint reaching 13 states.
Where they recruit · 2023-2026
88 signees across 13 states, 2023-2026. MS leads the pull.
That is 14.3% of every high-school FBS signee MS produced over those cycles — second only to Mississippi State, 3 signees back. The full map →
Miles from home · 2026 roster
The median Southern Miss player grew up 336 miles from campus.
Half this roster came from closer than that; half came from farther.
Straight-line distance from each player's listed hometown to M. M. Roberts Stadium. Hometowns are placed at city-centroid precision, not street address — fine at this scale, but a player's true door-to-door number can differ by a few miles. 155 of 165 listed players have a geocoded hometown. Source: CFBD roster hometowns.
Top community posts · last 12 months · r/cfb
Fan confidence in a typical range for this program right now
64th percentile among FBS programs
Winning the penalty battle: 15 penalties committed vs. 17 drawn on opponents, a 32-yard edge.
110 penalty yards committed vs. 142 drawn on opponents, 2026 season total.
Outcome band · Southern Miss · 2026
Recruiting Footprint · 2026