Southern Miss·Conference USA

2018 — The 2018 Season

Southern Miss's 2018 season (6-5) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 6-5
Final result No bowl
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -0.6 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Jack Sta 55-7 L vs UL Mon 20-21 W vs Rice 40-22 L @ Auburn 13-24 L @ Nort Tex 7-30 W vs UTSA 27-17 L @ Charlo 17-20 W vs Marshall 26-24 L @ UAB 23-26 W vs Loui Tec 21-20 W @ UTEP 39-7

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2018.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2018 season's largest margin: Southern Miss 55, Jackson State 7. A 48-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Southern Miss 7, North Texas 30. A 23-point margin the season is remembered by.

"SMTTT"
— Southern Miss fanbase voice · 2018· synthesized
What it meant

2018 is a middle chapter for Southern Miss — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.