TCU vs. USC

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in. Overtime games from the games’ Wikipedia articles.

1. TCU’s biggest win1954: TCU 20, USC 7by 13 points
2. USC’s biggest win1977: USC 51, TCU 0by 51 points
3. Upset1998: TCU 28, USC 19TCU had a 21% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1954: TCU 20, USC 7TCU had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

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.

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

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  1954 · The Key West citizen, Oct 9, 1954

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.

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• TCU vs. Baylor116 meetings, TCU 61–⁠50–⁠5
• TCU vs. SMU103 meetings, TCU 54–⁠42–⁠7
• TCU vs. Texas91 meetings, TCU 28–⁠62–⁠1
• TCU vs. Texas A&M89 meetings, TCU 28–⁠54–⁠7
• 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