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Hawai’i vs. USC

Hawai’i and USC have 9 meetings on file, the first in 1930; officially, USC leads 8–⁠0; as played, 9–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 9 meetings it’s USC 9–⁠0, and USC has won the last 9. The NCAA vacated USC’s win (2005); it doesn’t count officially. This page counts every game as it was played.

Official series
USC leads 8–⁠0
Hawai’i wins on file
0
USC wins on file
9
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1930
Longest streak
9 USC
Current streak
9 USC
Last 10 meetings
USC 9–⁠0
Most recent
2013

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠2
1970s0–⁠1
1990s0–⁠1
2000s0–⁠2
2010s0–⁠3
Average margin
33.2 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Hawai’i
0–⁠6 Hawai’i’s record at home
At USC
3–⁠0 USC’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. USC’s biggest win1999: USC 62, Hawai’i 7by 55 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Hawai’i and USC, 1930 on130015001700190019401960198020002020

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

Biggest days

Kealoha Pilares Hawai’i5 catches, 176 yards, 3 TD2010 Receiving
Marqise Lee USC10 catches, 197 yards, 1 TD2012 Receiving
Steve Smith USC7 catches, 185 yards, 1 TD2005 Receiving

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

Every game

Aug 29, 201324USC 30, Hawai’i 13at Hawai’i
Sep 1, 20121USC 49, Hawai’i 10at USC
Sep 2, 201014USC 49, Hawai’i 36at Hawai’i
Sep 3, 20051USC 63, Hawai’i 17vacatedat Hawai’i
Sep 13, 20034USC 61, Hawai’i 32at USC
Sep 4, 199921USC 62, Hawai’i 7at Hawai’i
Dec 2, 19783USC 21, Hawai’i 5at Hawai’i
Jan 1, 1936USC 38, Hawai’i 6at Hawai’i
Nov 15, 1930USC 52, Hawai’i 0at USC

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.