University of Southern Mississippi Athletics
Television Games Announced for 2011 Football Season
6/7/2011 12:00:00 AM | Football
June 7, 2011
HATTIESBURG, Miss. - The Southern Miss football program will appear on television 10 times during the 2011 season in an announcement by Conference USA Tuesday.
The Golden Eagles will be featured nationally at least six times during the regular season with five games being shown on CBS Sports Network (CBSSN), formerly called CBS College Sports, and once on Fox Sports Net (FSN). The program also will be featured on Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast (CSS) four times with regional telecasts.
Southern Miss will appear on its lone FSN telecast in its season opener against Louisiana Tech, Sept. 3, at Carlisle-Faulkner Field at Roberts Stadium.
The CBSSN broadcasts will include home games against SMU and UCF, while road games at Navy, UTEP and UAB will be featured by the network. The UAB game will be the lone non-Saturday game of the season, which will be played on Thurs., Nov. 17.
As for CSS, they will show four Conference USA contests, including home games with Rice and Memphis and road contests with Marshall and East Carolina.
The only games not picked up for television at this point are the Golden Eagles' Sept. 17 matchup at home against Southeastern Louisiana and Sept. 24 road tilt at Virginia. The SLU contest will be played at 6 p.m., at "The Rock."
This is the second time in as many years that the Golden Eagles will be featured on over-the-air telecasts at least 10 times during the regular season.
Here is a listing of the 2011 schedule with its television partner. Please note some of the game times are still yet to be announced and are subject to change:
2011 Southern Miss Football Schedule
| Day of Week | Date | Opponent | TV Network | Time |
| Saturday | 9/3 | Louisiana Tech | (FSN) | TBA |
| Saturday | 9/10 | at Marshall* | (CSS) | TBA |
| Saturday | 9/17 | Southeastern Louisiana | 6 p.m. | |
| Saturday | 9/24 | at Virginia | TBA | |
| Saturday | 10/1 | Rice* | (CSS) | TBA |
| Saturday | 10/8 | at Navy | (CBSSN) | 2:30 p.m. |
| Saturday | 10/22 | SMU* | (Homecoming/CBSSN) | 7 p.m. |
| Saturday | 10/29 | at UTEP* | (CBSSN) | 7 p.m. |
| Saturday | 11/5 | at East Carolina* | (CSS) | 11 a.m. |
| Saturday | 11/12 | UCF* | (CBSSN) | 7 p.m. |
| Thursday | 11/17 | at UAB* | (CBSSN) | 7 p.m. |
| Saturday | 11/26 | Memphis* | (CSS) | TBA |
*Conference USA contest; All Times Central and subject to change
Conference USA Football on FOX Sports Networks
The 2011 football season marks the beginning of a new long-term agreement between Conference USA and Fox Sports Media Group for national television rights to a variety of marquee Conference USA events, including a minimum of 20 regular-season football games. Through two dozen owned and affiliated networks, FOX Sports Networks (FSN) programming reaches more than 85 million homes across the country. Conference USA joins Fox's impressive roster of other conference partners that includes the Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, ACC, and SEC.
Conference USA Football on CBS Sports Network
CBS Sports Network is the original 24-hour sports channel dedicated to covering college sports. Available to 95 million homes nationwide, CBS Sports Network provides comprehensive college sports coverage, including 25 men's and women's sports, hundreds of live games annually, as well as in-depth studio and original programming. Conference USA enters its seventh year on CBS Sports Network, which will feature a minimum of 20 C-USA football games in 2011. For more information, go to www.cbssportsnetwork.com.
