USC and Rice will play this Saturday in the Los Angeles Coliseum. What do you know about the Coliseum as a football venue? One of several noteworthy aspects of the Coliseum’s history is that it has hosted the Super Bowl. The vernable old ballyard hosted Super Bowls I and VII.
Did you know that Rice University has also hosted a Super Bowl? Rice Stadium hosted Super Bowl VIII, one year after the Coliseum’s last Big Game. That’s right: USC and Rice hosted the Super Bowl in consecutive years, 1973 and 1974.
USC and Rice are therefore two schools which have played in Super Bowl stadiums. Not many other schools across the United States can make that claim.
Let’s go through the relatively short list of college football schools which either currently play, or have played, in a stadium which has hosted a Super Bowl game.
USC-Rice contains more historical resonance than you might have previously thought.