Occidental vs. USC
Occidental and USC first met in 1922 and have played 7 times; USC leads the series 7–0. Over the last 7 meetings it’s USC 7–0, and USC has won the last 7. Share
- Occidental wins
- 0
- USC wins
- 7
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1922
- Longest streak
- 7 USC
- Current streak
- 7 USC
- Last 10 meetings
- USC 7–0
- Most recent
- 1934
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 34.7 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At USC
- 7–0 USC’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 6
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- USC’s biggest win1929: USC 64, Occidental 0by 64 points
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
1927 · Imperial Valley press, Sep 30, 1927
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 21, 1934 | USC 20, Occidental 0 | at USC | ||
| Sep 22, 1933 | USC 39, Occidental 0 | at USC | ||
| Oct 19, 1929 | USC 64, Occidental 0 | at USC | ||
| Oct 27, 1928 | USC 19, Occidental 0 | at USC | ||
| Sep 24, 1927 | USC 33, Occidental 0 | at USC | ||
| Oct 16, 1926 | USC 28, Occidental 6 | at USC | ||
| Nov 4, 1922 | USC 46, Occidental 0 | at USC |
Every game is listed as played on the field.