1996 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team
1996 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football | |
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Conference USA co-champion | |
Conference | Conference USA |
1996 record | 8–3 (4–1 C-USA) |
Head coach | Jeff Bower (7th season) |
Home stadium |
M. M. Roberts Stadium (Capacity: 33,000) |
1996 Conference USA football standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Southern Miss + | 4 | – | 1 | 8 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Houston + | 4 | – | 1 | 7 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cincinnati | 2 | – | 3 | 6 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Louisville | 2 | – | 3 | 5 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memphis | 2 | – | 3 | 4 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tulane | 1 | – | 4 | 2 | – | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1996 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team represented the University of Southern Mississippi in the 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Golden Eagles were led by seventh-year head coach Jeff Bower and played their home games at M. M. Roberts Stadium. In the inaugural season of Conference USA, Southern Miss claimed a share of the conference championship with Houston after finishing 4–1 in conference, and 8–3 overall.
Schedule
Date | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | Result | |||||
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August 31 | at Georgia* | Sanford Stadium • Athens, GA | W 11–7 | ||||||
September 7 | at No. 14 Alabama* | Legion Field • Birmingham, AL | L 10–20 | ||||||
September 14 | Utah State* | M. M. Roberts Stadium • Hattiesburg, MS | W 31–24 | ||||||
September 21 | Louisiana–Lafayette* | M. M. Roberts Stadium • Hattiesburg, MS | W 52–27 | ||||||
September 28 | at Louisville | Cardinal Stadium • Louisville, KY | W 24–7 | ||||||
October 10 | at East Carolina* | Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium • Greenville, NC | W 28–7 | ||||||
October 19 | Memphis | M. M. Roberts Stadium • Hattiesburg, MS (Black and Blue Bowl) | W 16–0 | ||||||
October 26 | at Tulane | No. 24 | Louisiana Superdome • New Orleans, LA (Battle for the Bell) | W 31–28 | |||||
November 2 | at Cincinnati | No. 23 | M. M. Roberts Stadium • Hattiesburg, MS | W 21–17 | |||||
November 9 | at Houston | No. 20 | Houston Astrodome • Houston, TX | L 49–56 | |||||
November 16 | at Florida State* | No. 25 | Doak Campbell Stadium • Tallahassee, FL | L 14–54 | |||||
*Non-conference game. #Rankings from AP Poll. |
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References
- ↑ "1996 Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles Schedule and Results". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
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