Southern Miss Golden Eagles
FBS
Sun Belt Conference · USM
Team Vitals
+3.5
power · 2026 · #136 D1
+1.6 / +1.9
off / def (higher = better)
1–1
2026 record
112
roster (2026)
Team profile 2025 · vs 136 FBS teams
Percentile against every FBS team, from 2025 play with garbage time excluded. No 2026 game has been played yet, so this describes last season.
- Win rate 43%ile 0.538
- Offense (PPA/play) 51%ile 0.179
- Defense (PPA allowed) 70%ile 0.102
- Offensive success rate 24%ile 0.395
- Defensive success rate allowed 49%ile 0.412
- Explosiveness 74%ile 1.347
- Explosiveness allowed 58%ile 1.247
- Plays per game 79%ile 65.7
median · bars right of it are above the FBS average · pace is a style, not a grade
Upcoming 2026
| Date | Wk | Opponent | Site | Model Lean |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-19 | Wk 3 | UConn FBS | HOME | Southern Miss 56% |
| 2026-09-26 | Wk 4 | Tulane FBS | AWAY | Tulane 73% |
| 2026-10-06 | Wk 6 | Troy FBS | AWAY | Troy 52% |
| 2026-10-17 | Wk 7 | Arkansas State FBS | HOME | Southern Miss 53% |
| 2026-10-24 | Wk 8 | Louisiana FBS | HOME | Louisiana 62% |
| 2026-10-31 | Wk 9 | UL Monroe FBS | AWAY | Southern Miss 64% |
| 2026-11-05 | Wk 10 | James Madison FBS | HOME | James Madison 70% |
| 2026-11-14 | Wk 11 | Louisiana Tech FBS | AWAY | Louisiana Tech 56% |
| 2026-11-21 | Wk 12 | South Alabama FBS | HOME | South Alabama 55% |
| 2026-11-28 | Wk 13 | Old Dominion FBS | AWAY | Old Dominion 68% |
Recent Results
| Date | Season | Wk | Opponent | Result | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-12 | 2026 | Wk 2 | Auburn @ | L | 8–43 |
| 2026-09-05 | 2026 | Wk 1 | Alcorn State vs | W | 49–3 |
| 2025-12-23 | 2025 | Bowl | Western Kentucky vs | L | 16–27 |
| 2025-11-29 | 2025 | Wk 14 | Troy vs | L | 18–28 |
| 2025-11-22 | 2025 | Wk 13 | South Alabama @ | L | 35–42 |
| 2025-11-15 | 2025 | Wk 12 | Texas State vs | L | 14–41 |
| 2025-11-08 | 2025 | Wk 11 | Arkansas State @ | W | 27–21 |
| 2025-10-25 | 2025 | Wk 9 | UL Monroe vs | W | 49–21 |
| 2025-10-18 | 2025 | Wk 8 | Louisiana @ | W | 22–10 |
| 2025-10-09 | 2025 | Wk 7 | Georgia Southern @ | W | 38–35 |
| 2025-09-27 | 2025 | Wk 5 | Jacksonville State vs | W | 42–25 |
| 2025-09-20 | 2025 | Wk 4 | Louisiana Tech @ | L | 20–30 |
Season by Season
| Season | W | L | PF | PA | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 57 | 46 | +11 |
| 2025 | 7 | 6 | 374 | 356 | +18 |
| 2024 | 1 | 11 | 183 | 453 | -270 |
| 2023 | 3 | 9 | 278 | 429 | -151 |
| 2022 | 7 | 6 | 329 | 306 | +23 |
| 2021 | 3 | 9 | 212 | 335 | -123 |
| 2020 | 3 | 7 | 253 | 323 | -70 |
| 2019 | 7 | 6 | 346 | 341 | +5 |
| 2018 | 6 | 5 | 288 | 218 | +70 |
| 2017 | 8 | 5 | 379 | 318 | +61 |
| 2016 | 7 | 6 | 427 | 384 | +43 |
| 2015 | 9 | 5 | 559 | 358 | +201 |
Injuries
Not an injury report. College football has no league-wide mandated one, and the ESPN feed we poll has carried the same three players all season — so an empty table here means nothing has been reported to us, not that the team is healthy. Nothing on this page, and nothing in our model, uses it.
Player grades 2026 season
Box production, opponent-adjusted, ranked within position (50 = positional average). OL rows are team-inferred — college football publishes no individual OL box stats. Full leaderboard →
| Player | Pos | Grade | Pos rank | G | 2026 season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Robinson | RB | 79 | #37 | 2 | 174 rush yds · 3 TD · 1 rec |
| Kobi Albert | DB | 79 | #87 | 2 | 7 tkl · 1 PD · 3 INT |
| Laquan Robinson | DB | 73 | #192 | 2 | 17 tkl · 1 PD |
| Mathis Haygood | LB | 72 | #133 | 2 | 15 tkl · 0.5 sacks · 2.5 TFL |
| Mario Sanders | WR | 70 | #180 | 2 | 9 rec · 152 yds · 1 TD |
| Ramon Pernas | DL | 64 | #578 | 1 | 3 tkl |
| Jamarice Wilder | RB | 63 | #266 | 2 | 101 rush yds · 2 TD |
| Jyaire Brown | DB | 61 | #702 | 2 | 7 tkl |
| Will Smith | DL | 60 | #874 | 2 | 4 tkl · 0.5 sacks · 0.5 TFL |
| Champ Lewis | DB | 59 | #840 | 2 | 8 tkl · 1 PD |
| Melvin Spriggs | LB | 57 | #585 | 2 | 9 tkl · 1.5 TFL |
| AJ Little | WR | 57 | #630 | 2 | 7 rec · 65 yds |
| Darrell Gross | DL | 57 | #1101 | 1 | 5 tkl · 0.5 TFL |
| Michael Robinson III | DB | 56 | #1015 | 2 | 9 tkl |
| Ethan Hampton | QB | 56 | #236 | 2 | 326 pass yds · 2 TD · 3 INT |
| Luke Beard team-inferred | OL | 54 | #57 | 1 | — |
| Jeremiah Beck Jr. | TE | 54 | #241 | 1 | 3 rec · 15 yds |
| MJ Johnson | WR | 54 | #756 | 2 | 4 rec · 65 yds |
| Preston Kilgore | TE | 54 | #250 | 2 | 4 rec · 28 yds |
| Kameron Cyprien | DL | 54 | #1346 | 2 | 4 tkl |
| Jonah Martinez | DB | 53 | #1266 | 2 | 1 tkl · 1 INT |
| Robert Henderson | RB | 51 | #626 | 1 | 16 rush yds · 1 TD |
| Nasim Cairo | DL | 51 | #1612 | 2 | 4 tkl · 0.5 TFL |
| Jaylen Himes | WR | 50 | #954 | 2 | 4 rec · 31 yds |
| Zachariah Keith | DL | 50 | #1661 | 1 | 3 tkl · 0.5 TFL |
| Landon Sylvie | DB | 49 | #1571 | 2 | 5 tkl |
| Avery Sledge | LB | 49 | #978 | 2 | 5 tkl · 1.0 TFL |
| Landry Lyddy | QB | 48 | #366 | 2 | 71 pass yds · 0 INT · -10 rush yds |
| Creighton Wilbanks | K | 48 | #222 | 1 | 7 XP · 7 pts |
| Xavier McIver | DL | 48 | #1826 | 1 | 3 tkl |
| Wesley Edison | LB | 48 | #1023 | 2 | 6 tkl |
| JR Stegall | DL | 48 | #1833 | 2 | 4 tkl |
| Tyler Lassiter | LB | 48 | #1050 | 2 | 6 tkl |
| Jameer Lewis | DL | 47 | #1899 | 2 | 2 tkl |
| Jeffery Rush Jr. | DL | 46 | #2016 | 1 | 3 tkl |
| KJ Washington | DL | 46 | #2017 | 1 | 1 tkl · 1.0 TFL |
| Jaylen Foster | RB | 44 | #860 | 1 | 31 rush yds |
| Broderick Peters | TE | 44 | #403 | 1 | 1 rec · 10 yds |
| Dusty Zimmer | P | 44 | #179 | 2 | 9 punts · 41.8 yd avg |
| Grant Page | WR | 42 | #1363 | 2 | 2 rec · 17 yds |