In a marquee battle, USC will face the Michigan Wolverines at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 2024. The Trojans lead the all-time series with a 6-4 record. The last meeting was a 2007 Rose Bowl victory with USC winning, 32-18.
Paul Myerberg of USA TODAY Sports has more:
“All but two of the 10 matchups between these two historic powers has taken place in the Rose Bowl, most recently at the end of the 2006 season. The Trojans are 6-2 in Rose Bowl games against Michigan, with the Wolverines’ most recent win coming in 1989.”
The two teams played a home-and-home series in 1957 and 1958. Those are the only two on-campus meetings between these schools. On one hand, it seems improbable that two storied programs have met so rarely, but USC and Michigan were so prominent and powerful for decades — from the late 1960s through the late 1980s, then again in the 2000s — that they knew the possibility of a Rose Bowl clash was very high. Why meet in the regular season if a postseason encounter was well within the realm of possibility?
At any rate, future USC-Michigan games won’t be in the Rose Bowl; they will carry a lot of meaning in the push for the 12-team College Football Playoff.
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