Some History

It will be USC’s 48th game at the Rose Bowl Stadium. The Trojans played the first game at the facility on October 28, 1922, when it was known as the Tournament of Roses Stadium. A crowd of 35,000 turned out for that contest, a 12-0 loss to California, the most to see a USC game, at least up to that point.
That record would be broken when USC played in the 1923 Rose Bowl before 43,000, which was nonetheless several thousand short of capacity.