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Dwight Dasher threw two touchdowns and rushed for two more as Middle Tennessee stretched its winning streak to seven straight games by beating Southern Mississippi 42-32 in the New Orleans Bowl on Sunday night.

LAST YEAR, a group of Southern Miss football players and coaches visited the Children's Hospital of New Orleans prior to the New Orleans Bowl.

Southern Miss arrived here Wednesday to begin final bowl preparations for Middle Tennessee in the ninth New Orleans Bowl on Sunday.

Our weekly Q&A with the opponent's beat writer returns for a bowl edition, as MTSU gets cranked up for a New Orleans Bowl showdown with Southern Mississippi.

It's never too early for a game preview, especially when it's bowl season. Here's the first look at Southern Miss, MTSU's newly-announced opponent in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl.

Most offensive players stride to the sideline after scoring a touchdown and don't pay much attention to the outcome of the usually automatic conversion of the point-after. But Southern Miss quarterback Martevious Young knew better.

The Conference USA East Division title will be at stake Today when East Carolina closes out regular season play by hosting Southern Miss in a 1:30 p.m. matchup at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.

When the Southern Miss football team begins play at 6:30 tonight against Tulsa, it should be fully aware of what is on the line.

Southern Miss players wore black bands saying 'finish' on their wrists during Saturday's game.

Of all of the Southern Miss players who had tough acts to follow this season, perhaps none had a bigger burden than linebacker Korey Williams.

When Southern Miss starting quarterback Austin Davis went down with a season-ending foot injury in the fifth game of the season, his job was inherited by backup Martevious Young.

The 27-20 win at Marshall on Saturday finally ended the countless questions the Southern Miss football team faced about its inability to win on the road.

He's a gamer The fear when Martevious Young took over the starting quarterback job for Southern Miss in the sixth game is that he would fall into the same mistakes he made when he lost the battle to start in 2008.

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In Kevin Sumlin's first season as the head coach at the University of Houston in 2008, the Cougars finished the season No.

The Southern Miss Golden Eagles pushed their win streak in the "Battle for the Bell" rivalry game against Tulane to five straight with a 43-6 victory Saturday night at M.M. Roberts Stadium.

Before last week's 36-16 Conference USA victory over Memphis, the Southern Miss defense was struggling to keep teams out of the end zone.

A season-saving victory? Larry Fedora said he didn't tell his players this was a make-or-break game, but Fedora also indicated the Golden Eagles probably knew it was.

Southern Miss coach Larry Fedora said after his team's 36-16 victory over Memphis on Saturday that he didn't want to pump up the contest as a do-or-die situation.

The University of Southern Mississippi football team added an accent to its black-and-gold color scheme Saturday evening at Roberts Stadium.