11 National Championships 504 NFL Players 34 Bowl Victories 81 NFL 1st Round Draftees accolades 168 All-Americans 5 No. 1 Overall NFL Draft Picks 6 Heisman Trophy Winners 22 Academic All-Americans 2018 SCHEDULE (1-1) Release Date: Sept. 10, 2018 DATE OPPONENT TIME/RESULT Sept. 1 UNLV W 43-21 GAME 3 Sept. 8 at Stanford L 3-17 No. 22/21 USC Sept. 15 at Texas 7 p.m. CT (FOX) (1-1 overall, 0-1 Pac-12 - South) Sept. 21 (Fr.) Washington St. 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Sept. 29 at Arizona TBA vs. Oct. 6 BYE WEEK Texas Oct. 13 Colorado TBA (1-1 overall, 0-0 Big 12) Oct. 20 at Utah TBA Oct. 27 Arizona St. TBA Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, 7 p.m. CT, Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, Austin, Tex. Nov. 3 at Oregon St. TBA Nov. 10 California TBA NO. 22 USC FOOTBALL MAKES FIRST VISIT TO AUSTIN SINCE 1966 Nov. 17 at UCLA TBA Nov. 24 Notre Dame TBA THEMES *No. 22 USC will make its first visit to Austin in 52 years when the Trojans and Texas--both college football USCTROJANS.COM/FOOTBALL blueblood programs--collide Saturday in a primetime game on FOX. *The series has had some iconic battles, including the legendary 2006 Rose Bowl win by Texas and last @USC_Athletics year’s USC double overtime victory in the Coliseum. *This will be just the third time that Troy has gone to Austin. The first time USC visited Austin to play the Longhorns--in 1956--was a sociologically historic contest and some of those involved (including Trojan /USCTrojans @USCAthletics great C.R. Roberts) will be saluted at this year’s game. *USC has played 15 times in The Lone Star State (home to 9,000 alums) and, in fact, is playing in the state #FightOn for the third consecutive year, but the last time the Trojans won a game in Texas was in 1996 against a team led by USC head coach Clay Helton’s father. The younger Helton, by the way, played his high school and #FaithFamilyFootball college ball in Texas. #LeaveNoDoubt *USC’s roster has 5 Texans, including a pair from Austin. *The Trojans will be looking to rebound from a Pac-12 opening loss at Stanford last Saturday, a game TROJANS ON THE AIR in which the defense was staunch (limiting the Cardinal to just 17 points) but the offense couldn’t get Live national TV: 5 p.m. (PT)/7 p.m. (CT), untracked (USC scored its fewest points since 1997). The front part of Troy’s defense is led by 2-time team FOX, Gus Johnson, Joel Klatt, Jenny Taft. tackle leader ILB Cameron Smith and high-energy OLB Porter Gustin, while the stingy secondary features Live national radio: 5 p.m. (PT)/7 CB Iman Marshall and 2017 All-Pac-12 first team S Marvell Tell III. Offensively, the Trojan rushing attack p.m. (CT), Sports USA, Josh Appel, John is productive behind rotating TBs Aca’Cedric Ware, Stephen Carr and Vavae Malepeai, while WRs Tyler Robinson. Vaughns, Michael Pittman Jr. and exciting freshman Amon-Ra St. Brown already have almost 2 dozen Live local radio: 1 p.m. (PT), ESPNLA receptions between them. Precocious QB JT Daniels, a true freshman who graduated a year early from high 710 Radio (KSPN-AM), Pete Arbogast, John school to join the Trojans this summer, had an impressive debut in the season opener but then suffered a Jackson, Jordan Moore, Shaun Cody, bruised throwing hand on the first series at Stanford and had to play through it. PK Chase McGrath has 6 Chris Fisher, Andy Kamenetzky, Chris Hale, field goals in the first 2 games (a pace that would break USC’s season record of 19). Nick Alfano (includes 4-hour pre-game *Head coach Tom Herman’s Texas squad bounced back from its season-opening loss by getting by Tulsa and 2-hour post-game shows). Also on last Saturday in Austin. The Longhorns’ offense features QB Sam Ehlinger, WRs Lil’Jordan Humphrey, the Trojan Radio Network--KSZL-AM 1230 in Barstow and KXPS-AM 1010 in Palm Collin Johnson and Devin Duvernay and TBs Tre Watson (a grad transfer from California who played against Springs--as well as on USCTrojans.com and USC in 2014 and 2016), Keaontay Ingram and Daniel Young. UT’s defensive standouts include NB P.J. Locke ESPNLA.com, on SiriusXM satellite radio III, LB Anthony Wheeler, CB Kris Boyd and S Brandon Jones. (channels 83/83 or online channel 83) and on the TuneIn Radio app. RANKINGS Trojans Live: 7-8 p.m. (PT), Mondays *USC is ranked 22nd in the AP sports media poll and 21st in the Amway coaches poll. Texas is not ranked. (except Tuesdays, Sept. 11, Oct. 23 and 30, Nov. 20), ESPNLA 710 Radio (KSPN-AM), SERIES John Jackson, Jordan Moore (live from *USC is 5-0 in its series with Texas (not including 1 loss vacated due to NCAA penalty; original record, 4-1). The Lab gastropub, 3500 Figueroa St., Los See note on page 3 regarding how the NCAA requires USC to list its series record with Texas. Angeles). Fans also can hear “Trojans Live” *USC’s wins came in a pair of home-and-home meetings in the mid-1950s and mid-1960s, as well as in on Facebook Live and the TuneIn Radio app. overtime in the Coliseum in 2017. In 1955 in the Coliseum, in the schools’ first-ever meeting, No. 9 USC beat USC Trojan Talk: 7 p.m. (PT), Thursdays, Texas, 19-7, behind a pair of TD runs by FB Gordon Duvall (it was the first time a Pacific Coast Conference KSHP-AM 1400, and 11 a.m. (PT), Saturdays, team had defeated the Longhorns). The next year in 1956, the No. 15 Trojans opened their season with a KMET-AM 1490, Harvey Hyde. 44-20 victory in Austin that was historic from both an athletic and sociological perspective. In that 1956 Trojan Football Report: 9 p.m. (PT), contest, Trojan FB C.R. Roberts set a school single-game rushing record (251 yards) that stood for 20 years. Saturdays, KDWN-AM/FM 720/101.5, Harvey It was sweet redemption for Roberts (an African-American) and his teammates, as the Austin hotel the Hyde. Trojans had booked was segregated, causing USC head coach Jess Hill to move his team to an integrated TICKETS lodging. Ten years later, No. 9 USC opened its 1966 season at Texas with a 10-6 win, holding the Longhorns Tickets for USC home football games are on scoreless until the fourth quarter (Troy ran out the clock for the game’s final 8 minutes). The following year sale online at USCTrojans.com/tickets or by (1967), No. 4 USC held off the No. 5 Longhorns in the Coliseum, 17-13, behind TB O.J. Simpson’s 158 rushing calling (213) 740-GOSC (4672). To reserve a yards en route to a national championship. USC’s vacated loss came in the BCS Championship Game in the spot in a Coliseum Field Suite or in the Field 2006 Rose Bowl (following the 2005 season) as Longhorn QB Vince Young ran for a pair of TDs in the final Club, contact the USC Premium Department minutes—including an 8-yard scrambling game-winner on fourth-and-5 with 19 seconds to go—to help No. 2 at [email protected]. Texas overcome a 12-point deficit and upend the top-ranked Trojans, 41-38, denying Troy an unprecedented third straight national title. 1 PAC-12 STANDINGS *Last year (2017) in the Coliseum, true freshman walk-on PK Chase McGrath hit the first 2 field goals of his career, the first with no time in regulation to send the game into overtime and the second the game PAC-12 OVERALL winner in the second overtime to propel No. 4 USC to a dramatic, hard-fought 27-24 victory over Texas. See W L W L page 4 for a complete recap of that most recent matchup. SOUTH ASU 0 0 2 0 VERSUS BIG 12 COLO 0 0 2 0 *USC holds an 19-10-1 all-time record against current Big 12 teams (not including 1 win and 1 loss vacated UTAH 0 0 2 0 due to NCAA penalty; original record: 20-11-1). ARIZ 0 0 0 2 *USC is 5-0 vs. Texas, 3-0 vs. Texas Tech, 1-0 vs. West Virginia, 5-2-1 vs. Oklahoma, 3-2 vs. Baylor, 2-3 vs. UCLA 0 0 0 2 TCU, 0-1 vs. Kansas and 0-2 vs. Kansas State (not including 1 win vs. Oklahoma and 1 loss vs. Texas vacated USC 0 1 1 1 due to NCAA penalty; original records: 6-2-1 vs. Oklahoma, 5-1 vs. Texas). NORTH *USC’s most recent meeting against a current Big 12 foe was its 27-24 double overtime home win over STAN 1 0 2 0 Texas last year. CAL 0 0 2 0 *Conversely, Texas is 37-24 vs. current Pac-12 foes (3-0 vs. Oregon State, 1-0 vs. Arizona, 1-0 vs. Arizona ORE 0 0 2 0 State, 1-0 vs. Utah, 5-2 vs. Stanford, 4-2 vs. Oregon, 11-7 vs. Colorado, 5-2 vs. California, 2-2 vs. Stanford, 3-4 WSU 0 0 2 0 vs. UCLA and 1-5 vs. USC). OSU 0 0 1 1 WASH 0 0 1 1 USC VS. TEXAS SCHOOLS *USC is 23-5-1 against teams from the state of Texas.