Minnesota vs. USC

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

1. Minnesota’s biggest win2024: Minnesota 24, USC 17by 7 points
2. USC’s biggest win1979: USC 48, Minnesota 14by 34 points
3. Ranked showdown1968: USC 29, Minnesota 20No. 2 USC at No. 16 Minnesota

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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  1953 · Evening star, Sep 27, 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.

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• Minnesota vs. Wisconsin133 meetings, Minnesota 62–⁠63–⁠8
• Minnesota vs. Iowa118 meetings, Minnesota 62–⁠54–⁠2
• Minnesota vs. Michigan107 meetings, Minnesota 26–⁠78–⁠3
• Minnesota vs. Northwestern99 meetings, Minnesota 56–⁠38–⁠5
• 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