Navy vs. USC

Navy and USC have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1949; USC leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s USC 2–⁠1.

Navy wins
1
USC wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1949
Longest streak
1 USC
Current streak
1 USC
Last 10 meetings
USC 2–⁠1
Most recent
1962

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s0–⁠1
1950s1–⁠0
1960s0–⁠1
Average margin
14 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Navy
1–⁠0 Navy’s record at home
At USC
2–⁠0 USC’s record at home

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 Navy and USC, 1949 on130015001700190019501960197019801990200020102020

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 Evening star's story of the 1950 game: Inspired Navy Eleven lis 27-14 Winner Over Southern California

    1950 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 22, 1950

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

Nov 17, 19622USC 13, Navy 6at USC
Oct 21, 1950Navy 27, USC 14at Navy
Sep 24, 1949USC 42, Navy 20at USC

Every game is listed as played on the field.