Huskers to play Southern Miss in '12, '13, '15
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By the Lincoln Journal Star
It’s never too early to plan a trip to Hattiesburg, right?
Nebraska announced Monday its agreement to a play a three-game football series with Southern Miss, with games in Lincoln set for 2012 and 2015, sandwiched around a trip to Hattiesburg, Miss., in 2013.
The first game in the series will be played on Sept. 1, 2012, in Lincoln, and will mark the Huskers’ season opener. The Huskers will travel to Southern Miss for a game on Sept. 7, 2013, with the final meeting in the three-game contract set for Sept. 5, 2015.
The games in 2012 and 2013 are the second non-conference games scheduled for those seasons. Nebraska previously agreed to a home-and-home series with UCLA that will send Nebraska to Pasadena in 2012, with the Bruins playing in Memorial Stadium in the 2013 season.
“Southern Miss has an outstanding football program with a tradition of taking on top programs around the country,” Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne said in a statement. “We had a competitive three-game series with them a few years back and this should be another challenging set of games for our football team against a good opponent.”
The Huskers played Southern Miss from three times from 1999-2004. Nebraska won in Lincoln in 1999 and was victorious at Hattiesburg in 2003, before the Golden Eagles knocked off NU in Lincoln in 2004 for Bill Callahan’s first loss as Nebraska’s head coach. The three recent games are the only football meetings between the two schools.
Southern Miss is coming off a 7-6 season in 2007, including a trip to the PapaJohns.com Bowl. The Golden Eagles have been to a bowl game in nine of the past 11 seasons and 2008 will mark the debut of first-year head coach Larry Fedora.
Nebraska has completed its nonconference schedules through the 2010 season, and Big 12 Conferences schedules are set through 2015.
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