2008 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team

The 2008 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team will represent the University of Southern Mississippi during the 2008 college football season. The team's Head Coach is Larry Fedora, who will begin his first season as the Eagles' head coach, replacing Jeff Bower, who resigned after accumulating a 119-82-1 record at Southern from 1990-2007. USM has been a member of Conference USA (C-USA) since the league's inception in 1995, and has participated in that conference's Eastern Division since 2005. The Golden Eagles will play their home games in 2008 at historic in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, which has been Southern Miss football's "home" stadium since 1932.

2008 Signing Class
The Eagles landed a strong 2008 signing class, possibly the best in the school's history, with 27 total signees who earned the Golden Eagles a consensus top-50 signing class. The star of the class is undoubtedly in-state WR DeAndre Brown (Ocean Springs). Brown was ranked as the nation's #3 Receiver by Scout.com and #4 by Rivals.com and was the only recruit given a five-star rating by both services to sign with a non-BCS conference school. USM also landed three standout players from Mississippi's top high school program, Batesville-South Panola, in CB Bud Barksdale, DE/DT Terrance Pope and OG Quinn Sanford. Some of Southern's other impressive in-state high school signees were QB Bret Jefcoat (Fulton), RB Desmond Johnson (Yazoo City), DE Willie Packer (Moss Point), QB/DB Kendrick Presley (Kosciusko), DE Aljoshua Tillman (Meadville), OT/DT Bo Tillman (Meadville) and WR Bruce Wilbourn (Sardis). USM's standout out-of-state signees include WR Jordan McNair (Port St. Joe, Florida), WR Quinton Pierce (Mobile, Alabama), CB Marcal Robinson (Prichard, Alabama) and DT Joel Ross (Houma, Louisiana). The Golden Eagles also signed several JUCO prospects of note, including TE Jonathan Massey (Gautier/Co-Lin), a former Vanderbilt signee.

Southern also offered scholarships to former walk-on QB Austin Davis (Collinsville), who is expected to compete for the Golden Eagles starting QB spot, and to DB Jamison Hughes (Oxford), who will sit out the 2008 season after transferring from Ole Miss.

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