Georgia Tech vs. USC

Georgia Tech and USC have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1961; the series is tied 2–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s even at 2–⁠2.

Georgia Tech wins
2
USC wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1961
Longest streak
2 USC
Current streak
1 Georgia Tech
Last 10 meetings
even at 2–⁠2
Most recent
2012

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1960s1–⁠1
1970s0–⁠1
2010s1–⁠0
Average margin
15.5 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Georgia Tech
0–⁠1 Georgia Tech’s record at home
At USC
1–⁠1 USC’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠0 Georgia Tech first

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Georgia Tech and USC, 1961 on1300150017001900197019801990200020102020

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.

Stars of the series

Named most valuable

Rod Sweeting2012

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1961 game

    1961 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 23, 1961

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

Dec 31, 2012Georgia Tech 21, USC 7Sun BowlSun Bowl
Sep 22, 19731USC 23, Georgia Tech 6at Georgia Tech
Oct 25, 19697USC 29, Georgia Tech 18at USC
Sep 22, 1961Georgia Tech 27, USC 7at USC

Every game is listed as played on the field.