USC-Utah Notes

Here’s some notes on the USC-Utah series:

1.  This is the first time that USC has played a ranked Utah football team.
2.  This is only the second time a ranked USC football team has played Utah. The first was in 2012, when the No. 13-ranked Trojans defeated the Utes 38-28, in the Trojans’ first game in Salt Lake City since 1917.

3. Utah was just the second state USC played in, outside California. Washington was the first (a neutral site game against Oregon State in Tacoma in 1914); the Trojans traveled to Salt Lake City in 1915. Naturally, USC went by rail; the Trojans would not fly to a game until 1948.
4.  Utah was the first regular season television opponent for the Trojans in 1948. The Trojans and Utes were the featured attraction for the first night of commercial broadcasting on KLAC-TV, as local Los Angeles station Channel 13 was known. KLAC-TV.
Channel 13 used two cameras to cover the game. It was USC’s first televised win, as the Trojans shut out Utah, 27-0.  USC’s first television appearance was on KTLA, Channel 5, losing to Michigan 49-0 in the 1948 Rose Bowl.
5. Utah’s last home win against USC was in 1915. cUSC’s first win outside of California would not occur until 1916, in Phoenix against Arizona.  Their first victory outside of California at an opponent’s home ground would be in Utah in 1917.

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  1. Don’t worry everybody. Wolf is coming out with a Trojan ethics handbook. We can all study up and learn how to be a better program.

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