Colorado vs. USC

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

1. USC’s biggest win2012: USC 50, Colorado 6by 44 points
2. Ranked showdown2002: USC 40, Colorado 3No. 17 USC at No. 18 Colorado

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Colorado’s side (MacIntyre 0–⁠4 against Helton). 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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  1963 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 27, 1963

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.

• Colorado vs. Colorado State88 meetings, Colorado 64–⁠22–⁠2
• Colorado vs. Missouri75 meetings, Colorado 31–⁠41–⁠3
• Colorado vs. Utah73 meetings, Colorado 33–⁠37–⁠3
• Colorado vs. Nebraska72 meetings, Colorado 21–⁠49–⁠2
• 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