USC has played the Big Ten in college football for almost 100 years. The first game saw the Trojans take on the Iowa Hawkeyes in 1925. The Trojans won that game, 18-0. The last game pitting USC against the Big Ten also involved Iowa, a 2019 loss in the Holiday Bowl. A five-year absence of USC games against Big Ten opponents will end when USC joins the Big Ten with UCLA, Washington and Oregon.
The Men of Troy hold a 75-30 (.714) winning all time versus the Big Ten. That is genuine dominance.
USC is 14-3 since 1970 against Michigan (6-1) and Ohio State (8-2). Until Clay Helton got to USC, the Trojans were on a seven-game win streak against the Buckeyes.
USC has had a losing record in a decade against the Big Ten only once. You would have to go all the way back to the 1940s when the Trojans went 2-5.
USC went 16 years without a loss to the Big Ten. From 1998-2014, the Trojans were 12-0 versus the Big Ten. Half of those games were against the Big Three: Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State – all defeated twice by the Trojans during that streak.
The Big Ten welcomed the Clay Helton years. Under Helton USC was 1-3 versus the Big Ten. USC lost a couple Holiday Bowls to Nebraska and Iowa and a Cotton Bowl to Urban Meyer’s Ohio State Buckeyes.
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