Indiana vs. USC

Indiana and USC have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1953; USC leads the series 4–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s USC 4–⁠0, and USC has won the last 4.

Indiana wins
0
USC wins
4
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1953
Longest streak
4 USC
Current streak
4 USC
Last 10 meetings
USC 4–⁠0
Most recent
1982

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s0–⁠1
1960s0–⁠1
1980s0–⁠2
Average margin
16.5 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Indiana
0–⁠1 Indiana’s record at home
At USC
2–⁠0 USC’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠1 Indiana first
Shutouts
1

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 Indiana and USC, 1953 on13001500170019001960197019801990200020102020

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

O.J. Simpson USC1967

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

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1953 game: |Indiana's S Showing Against use Sounds Warning by Big Ten

    1953 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 3, 1953

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.

Photos

From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).

Every game

Nov 14, 2026USC at Indiana upcomingat Indiana
Sep 18, 198219USC 28, Indiana 7at USC
Sep 19, 19812USC 21, Indiana 0at Indiana
Jan 1, 19681USC 14, Indiana 3Neutral siteRose Bowl
Oct 2, 19537USC 27, Indiana 14at USC

Every game is listed as played on the field.