Arizona vs. USC

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Arizona’s biggest win1993: Arizona 38, USC 7by 31 points
2. USC’s biggest win1928: USC 78, Arizona 7by 71 points
3. Upset1981: Arizona 13, USC 10Arizona had a 14% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1990: Arizona 35, USC 26Arizona had a 25% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2009: Arizona 21, USC 17Arizona had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown1992: USC 14, Arizona 7No. 9 Arizona at No. 18 USC
7. Ranked showdown1995: USC 31, Arizona 10No. 5 USC at No. 25 Arizona
8. Ranked showdown1994: USC 45, Arizona 28No. 13 Arizona at No. 17 USC

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Arizona’s side (McKale 0–⁠3 against Henderson). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1922 · Bisbee daily review, Oct 15, 1922

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game is listed as played on the field; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.

• Arizona vs. Arizona State89 meetings, Arizona 43–⁠45–⁠1
• Arizona vs. New Mexico51 meetings, Arizona 32–⁠17–⁠2
• Arizona vs. Utah49 meetings, Arizona 21–⁠26–⁠2
• Arizona vs. Washington State48 meetings, Arizona 29–⁠19
• USC vs. California108 meetings, USC 72–⁠31–⁠5
• USC vs. Stanford102 meetings, USC 66–⁠33–⁠3
• USC vs. Notre Dame96 meetings, USC 38–⁠53–⁠5
• USC vs. UCLA95 meetings, USC 54–⁠34–⁠7