Illinois and USC have 14 meetings on file, the first in 1935; USC leads the series 11–3 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s USC 8–2. Share
Scheduled2027 at USC. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Illinois’s side (Zuppke 1–3 against Jones). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
Both programs through the years
Illinois USCTicks under the axis: each meeting, in the winner’s color
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). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
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.
On television
ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game once: 2007.
The Rose Bowl stadium before the 2009 Rose Bowl game, with sign advertising the game on January 1, 2009.Photo: Bobak Ha’Eri, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe 2007 game
From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).
