The 2025 season's largest margin: Southern Miss 49, UL Monroe 21. A 28-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2025 — The 2025 Season
Southern Miss's 2025 season (7-6) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Braylon BraxtonQB3,053 passing yards
- Landry LyddyQB406 passing yards
- Jeffery PittmanRB695 rushing yards
- Matt JonesRB325 rushing yards
- Robert BriggsRB304 rushing yards
- Elijah MetcalfWR683 receiving yards
- Carl ChesterWR550 receiving yards
- Tychaun ChapmanWR444 receiving yards
- Chris JonesLB132 tackles
- Michael MontgomeryLB106 tackles
- Corey MyrickS91 tackles
- J'Mond TappDL7.5 sacks
- Garrick PonderLB4.5 sacks
- JJ HawkinsDL3 sacks
Season leaders, 2025.
The season's deepest loss: Southern Miss 14, Texas State 41. A 27-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Southern Miss fell to Western Kentucky 16-27 in the postseason.
"SMTTT"
2025 is a middle chapter for Southern Miss — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.