USC Trojans football statistical leaders

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A four-year starter, Matt Barkley is the Trojans' career leader in passing yards and passing touchdowns. Matt Barkley before 2012 Notre Dame game.jpg
A four-year starter, Matt Barkley is the Trojans' career leader in passing yards and passing touchdowns.

The USC Trojans football statistical leaders are individual statistical leaders of the USC Trojans football program in various categories, [1] including passing, rushing, receiving, total offense, defensive stats, and kicking/special teams. Within those areas, the lists identify single-game, single-season, and career leaders. Through the 2023 season, the Trojans represented the University of Southern California in the NCAA Division I FBS Big 10 team, but will join the Big Ten Conference for 2024 and beyond.

Contents

Although USC began competing in intercollegiate football in 1888, [1] the school's official record book considers the "modern era" to have begun in the 1920s. Records from before this decade are often incomplete and inconsistent, and they are generally not included in these lists.

These lists are dominated by more recent players for several reasons:

These lists are updated through the end of the 2023 season. Recent USC Football Media Guides do not include full top 10 lists for single-game records. However, the 2003 version of the media guide included long lists of top individual single-game performances, [5] and box scores from more recent games are readily available, so the lists are easily derived.

Passing

Passing yards

Passing touchdowns

Rushing

Rushing yards

Rushing touchdowns

Receiving

Receptions

Receiving yards

Receiving touchdowns

Total offense

Total offense is the sum of passing and rushing statistics. It does not include receiving or returns. [11]

Total offense yards

Touchdowns responsible for

"Touchdowns responsible for" is the NCAA's official term for combined passing and rushing touchdowns. [12]

Defense

Note: The USC Football Media Guide does not generally give a full top 10 in defensive statistics. [1]

Interceptions

Tackles

Sacks

Special teams

Field goals made

Field goal percentage

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 The NCAA does not credit Bush with this total; it later ruled him to have been ineligible for the last two games of the 2004 season and all of the 2005 season. USC includes all of Bush's statistics in its record books, but adds a prominent disclaimer indicating the NCAA treatment of his records.
  2. 1 2 The NCAA does not credit Bush with this game.

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