HATTIESBURG (SouthernMiss.com) - Conference USA has announced its league football schedule for the 2015 season, completing the slate for Southern Miss for the upcoming fall campaign.
Along with its non-conference slate of Mississippi State (Sept. 6) and Austin Peay (Sept. 13) at home and Texas State (Sept. 19) and Nebraska (Sept. 26) on the road, the Golden Eagles open their 2015 league season, Saturday, Oct. 3, against North Texas at Carlisle-Faulkner Field at M.M. Roberts Stadium.
The Golden Eagles will also entertain UTSA (Oct. 17) and UTEP (Oct. 31) at The Rock, before finishing the home regular season, Saturday, Nov. 21, against Old Dominion.
As for the road portion of the C-USA schedule, Southern Miss will travel to Marshall (Oct. 10), Charlotte (Oct. 24), Rice (Nov. 14) and Louisiana Tech (Nov. 28) to finish the regular season.
The program will face Old Dominion and Charlotte for the first time in the school's history in football.
The league's 13-team alignment for the 2015 season will feature each team playing eight conference games and the alignment features seven teams in the East Division and six teams in the West Division. Charlotte, FIU, Florida Atlantic, Marshall, Middle Tennessee, Old Dominion and WKU comprise the East Division, while Louisiana Tech, North Texas, Rice, Southern Miss, UTEP and UTSA make up the West Division.
Each school in the West Division will play every team in its division once for five games, while playing three cross-over opponents from the opposite division. Three schools in the East Division will play every team in its division once for six games, while playing two cross-over opponents from the opposite division. Four schools in the East Division will play five opponents in its division once for five games, while playing three cross-over opponents from the opposite division. East Division schools playing five division games were randomly selected by a computer scheduling application and two intra-division matchups in the East will not take place this season (Charlotte-WKU and Middle Tennessee-Old Dominion).
The 2015 schedule has 13 playing weeks, which provides for one open date for each team. The last two seasons were 14-week schedules, providing two bye weeks per school. The 2015 schedule is again a one-year model, with Charlotte replacing UAB in the East Division.
A schedule of televised games will be released at a later date. Conference USA's national television partners are Fox Sports Media Group, CBS Sports Network and American Sports Network for regular season games. The league's 11th annual Championship Game, pitting the champions of the East and West Divisions, is scheduled for Saturday, December 5 and will be televised by ESPN or ESPN2.
Please note that all games are subject to date changes.
2015 Southern Miss Football Schedule
September 5th: vs. Mississippi State
September 12th: vs. Austin Peay
September 19th: at Texas State
September 26th: at Nebraska
October 3rd: vs. North Texas
October 10th: at Marshall
October 17th vs. UTSA
October 24th: at Charlotte
October 31st: vs. UTEP
November 7th: BYE WEEK
November 14th at Rice
November 21st: vs. Old Dominion
November 28th: at Louisiana Tech
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