Nevada vs. USC
Nevada and USC have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1922; USC leads the series 5–0 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s USC 5–0, and USC has won the last 5. Share
2027 at USC. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).
- Nevada wins
- 0
- USC wins
- 5
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1922
- Longest streak
- 5 USC
- Current streak
- 5 USC
- Last 10 meetings
- USC 5–0
- Most recent
- 2023
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 34.2 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At USC
- 5–0 USC’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 3
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- USC’s biggest win1929: USC 66, Nevada 0by 66 points
- Upset1922: USC 6, Nevada 0USC had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
Both programs through the years
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
1922 · Albuquerque morning journal, Albuquerque, N.M., Oct 22, 1922
1929 · Seward daily gateway, Nov 11, 1929
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 2, 2023 | 6USC 66, Nevada 14 | at USC | ||
| Nov 9, 1929 | USC 66, Nevada 0 | at USC | ||
| Oct 25, 1924 | USC 21, Nevada 7 | at USC | ||
| Oct 13, 1923 | USC 33, Nevada 0 | at USC | ||
| Oct 21, 1922 | USC 6, Nevada 0 | at USC |
Every game is listed as played on the field.