USC vs. Washington

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. USC’s biggest win2008: USC 56, Washington 0by 56 points
2. Washington’s biggest win1960: Washington 34, USC 0by 34 points
3. Upset2009: Washington 16, USC 13Washington had a 13% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2010: Washington 32, USC 31Washington had a 17% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1980: Washington 20, USC 10Washington had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown1962: USC 14, Washington 0No. 9 Washington at No. 3 USC
7. Ranked showdown1984: USC 16, Washington 7No. 1 Washington at No. 14 USC
8. Ranked showdown1986: USC 20, Washington 10No. 6 Washington at No. 12 USC

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from USC’s side (Jones 5–⁠6 against Phelan). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

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).

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  1927 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Dec 5, 1927

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  1929 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 14, 1929

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  1932 · Imperial Valley press, California, Nov 30, 1932

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  1933 · The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, North Dakota, Dec 11, 1933

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  1934 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Dec 3, 1934

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.

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game once: 2016.

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of its locations (CC BY-SA). Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game is listed as played on the field; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.

• 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
• Washington vs. Oregon106 meetings, Washington 56–⁠46–⁠4
• Washington vs. Washington State106 meetings, Washington 70–⁠32–⁠4
• Washington vs. California99 meetings, Washington 55–⁠41–⁠3
• Washington vs. Oregon State95 meetings, Washington 61–⁠32–⁠2