The Jackson State Tigers will face the Southern Miss Golden Eagles in a football matchup on Sept. 6, 2025, according to a contract obtained by FBSchedules.com through a state public records request. The matchup between the two Mississippi athletic mainstays was discussed in 2023 but wasn’t officially signed until this month.

Predictions, picks and odds as Mississippi State faces Tennessee this college basketball season. Plus, injury updates and the latest news.

Tennessee brushed aside its loss at Vanderbilt over the weekend and took out its frustration on Mississippi State on Tuesday night.

Another top-15 matchup in conference play, Tennessee and Mississippi State are next on the Tuesday night slate.

Campbell at Stony Brook, 1 p.m. Elon at Drexel, 1 p.m. Loyola Chicago at Rhode Island, 1 p.m. NC A&T at Hofstra, 1 p.m. Navy at Army, 1 p.m. Rutgers at Penn St., 1 p.m.

With the transfer portal now closed, Louisville football has added 21 new players. See the latest UofL football transfer news.

Twenty-five years ago this week, Jim Barksdale gave the state of Mississippi $100 million for a reading program. The historic gift paid off in a major way, improving reading scores and signaling the importance of investing in an integrated public schools system.

Tennessee's Chaz Lanier (2) chats with Mississippi State's Cameron Matthews ... Ordered by Keith Jackson to “call me Keith.” BlueSky @petefiutak.bsky.social and X @PeteFiutak

The trend of hiring former NFL players as college coaches continued as Terrell Buckley was named the head coach at Mississippi Valley State University.

Another day, another former NFL player becomes the head coach of a college football program. Via Scooby Axson of USA Today, Terrell Buckley is the new head coach at Mississippi Valley State. Buckley,

You come from a small town in Jackson and go to something ... picked up an offer Friday from Mississippi State, his sixth offer overall and fifth from an SEC school. He also has offers from Kentucky, Liberty, Missouri, Tennessee and Vanderbilt.

Roughly 40 million people from Texas to the Carolinas are under winter weather alerts, as a rare winter storm brings bone-chilling temperatures and potentially historic snowfall to cities unused to harsh cold weather. In Texas, temperatures dropped to below freezing Monday night as winter weather began across the state.