Missouri vs. USC

Missouri and USC have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1924; USC leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s USC 2–⁠1.

Missouri wins
1
USC wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1924
Longest streak
1 USC
Current streak
1 USC
Last 10 meetings
USC 2–⁠1
Most recent
1977

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1920s0–⁠1
1970s1–⁠1
Average margin
17 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Missouri
0–⁠1 Missouri’s record at home
At USC
0–⁠1 USC’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠1 Missouri 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 Missouri and USC, 1924 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.

From the newspapers

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story of the 1924 game: Troians Defeat Missouri By Spurt In Final Periods Valley Champs Fight Hard Battle But Lose Tc Southern California, 2O-7

    1924 · The Birmingham age-herald, Dec 26, 1924

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

Sep 10, 19774USC 27, Missouri 10at Missouri
Sep 11, 1976Missouri 46, 8USC 25at USC
Dec 25, 1924USC 20, Missouri 7Neutral siteLos Angeles Christmas Festival

Every game is listed as played on the field.