Tennessee vs. USC
Tennessee and USC have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1939; USC leads the series 4–0 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s USC 4–0, and USC has won the last 4. Share
- Tennessee wins
- 0
- USC wins
- 4
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1939
- Longest streak
- 4 USC
- Current streak
- 4 USC
- Last 10 meetings
- USC 4–0
- Most recent
- 1981
The series at a glance
- Both ranked
- 2 meetings: Tennessee 0, USC 2; 2 both in the top 10
- Average margin
- 19.5 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Tennessee
- 0–1 Tennessee’s record at home
- At USC
- 1–0 USC’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 0–2 Tennessee first
- Shutouts
- 2
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
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.
Stars of the series
Named most valuable
| Ambrose Schindler | 1939 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1939 · The Waterbury Democrat, Jan 2, 1940
1944 · The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., Jan 2, 1945
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 12, 1981 | 5USC 43, Tennessee 7 | at USC | ||
| Sep 13, 1980 | 5USC 20, Tennessee 17 | at Tennessee | ||
| Jan 1, 1945 | 7USC 25, 10Tennessee 0 | Neutral site | Rose Bowl | |
| Jan 1, 1940 | 3USC 14, 2Tennessee 0 | Neutral site | Rose Bowl |
Every game is listed as played on the field.