Tulane vs. USC
Tulane and USC have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1931; the series is tied 2–2 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s even at 2–2. Share
- Tulane wins
- 2
- USC wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1931
- Longest streak
- 1 USC
- Current streak
- 1 Tulane
- Last 10 meetings
- even at 2–2
- Most recent
- 2022
The series at a glance
- Both ranked
- 1 meeting: Tulane 1, USC 0
- Average margin
- 7.8 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Tulane
- 0–1 Tulane’s record at home
- At USC
- 0–1 USC’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–1 Tulane first
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
Biggest days
| Caleb Williams USC | 36 of 51, 460 yards, 5 TD, 1 INT | 2022 Passing | |
| Tyjae Spears Tulane | 17 carries, 205 yards, 4 TD | 2022 Rushing | |
| Brenden Rice USC | 6 catches, 174 yards, 2 TD | 2022 Receiving |
Named most valuable
| Tyjae Spears Tulane | 2022 |
| Dorian Williams Tulane | 2022 |
| Erny Pinckert USC | 1931 |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
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
| Jan 2, 2023 | 14Tulane 46, 8USC 45 | AT&T Stadium | Cotton Bowl | |
| Dec 21, 1946 | USC 20, Tulane 13 | at Tulane | ||
| Sep 26, 1942 | Tulane 27, USC 13 | at USC | ||
| Jan 1, 1932 | USC 21, Tulane 12 | Neutral site | Rose Bowl |
Every game is listed as played on the field.