USC Football Schedule Breakdown: Sure Wins, Potential Losses, Big Ten Teams Missed

Pete Fiutak

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Jan 2, 2023; Arlington, Texas, USA; A view of the USC Trojans helmets and Cotton Bowl logo during the game between the USC Trojans and the Tulane Green Wave in the 2023 Cotton Bowl at AT&T Stadium

In the new 18-team Big Ten, it’s all about the schedules, who everyone misses and where, and when the nasty games are. You know who the biggest teams are - some get a much bigger break than others.

No game is a 100% lock in the Big Ten, and there are always surprises, but for the most part, what are the relatively certain wins on the 2024 USC football schedule? What are the likely underdog games - the true 50/50 games are left alone - and which Big Ten teams does USC miss?

USC Football Schedule: Relatively certain Trojan wins

Rutgers, Utah State

USC Football Schedule: Relatively certain Trojan underdog games

LSU (in Las Vegas), at Michigan, at Washington.

USC Football Schedule: Who do the Trojans miss in the Big Ten?

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan State, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, Purdue 

2024 USC Football Schedule

Sept 1 vs LSU (in Las Vegas)
Sept 7 Utah State
Sept 14 OPEN DATE
Sept 21 at Michigan
Sept 28 Wisconsin
Oct 5 at Minnesota
Oct 12 Penn State
Oct 19 at Maryland
Oct 26 Rutgers
Nov 2 at Washington
Nov 9 OPEN DATE
Nov 16 Nebraska
Nov 23 at UCLA
Nov 30 Notre Dame

Pete Fiutak

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Publisher of CollegeFootballNews.com starting in 1998, Pete Fiutak was a college football part of the very start of Rivals, Scout, the FOXSports.com relaunch, Stadium/Campus Insiders, and the USA TODAY College Wire sites. 

He was the first ever on-air guest on CBS Sports Network, was a talking head for five years at Stadium, and did in-stadium TV work at the first five College Football Playoff National Championships. But all anyone really seems to care about is that he did all the player ratings for various college football and basketball video games for four years in the 2000s.