Let The (Football) Games Begin
Just as Trojans are serious about academics, research and community service, we take our sports seriously, too: USC student-athletes have captured 139 team national championships over the years. With the 2026 football season now underway, all eyes are on the Coliseum: After Saturday’s win against San José State, the Trojans are home again on Friday vs. Fresno State and once more Sept. 12 vs. Louisiana.
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Fighting On to Victory
USC is home to top performers in the classroom and on the athletic field as well. Our teams have won 100 men’s and 39 women’s national titles, and Trojans have captured a gold medal in each Summer Olympics since 1912 — a run that’s sure to continue when the Games return to Los Angeles in 2028.
USC’s Athletic Tradition
The most Heisman Trophy winners. The most Olympic gold medals and the overall medals. The most NCAA men’s individual titles. USC student-athletes set the standard.
USC opens ‘amazing’ Bloom Football Performance Center
The new home of USC football doubles the size of the program’s space on campus, building on a championship legacy with an eye toward future success.
USC student-athletes set yet another academic record
Trojan student-athletes established a new cumulative GPA record in the spring semester: 426 student-athletes earned a GPA of 3.0 or higher.
Getting ready for the Games: Week of panels focuses on engineering a successful L.A. Olympics
All this week, the USC Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering is bringing together researchers, civic leaders and student innovators with LA28 on their minds.
USC and Notre Dame to renew football rivalry in four-game series
The Trojans and the Fighting Irish will reignite college football’s greatest intersectional rivalry when they meet at the Coliseum in Week 1 of the 2030 season.
Pete Carroll reflects on his own USC experiences on and off the football field
COMMENCEMENT: As the legendary coach prepares to address USC Marshall graduates, players Juju Watkins, Sean Cody and Mike Williams — and Carroll himself — weigh in on the Hall of Famer’s Trojan legacy.
Women’s water polo team claims national title with win over Cal
Sunday’s 10-9 victory gives the Trojans their eighth all-time national championship.
Women’s golf team, Jasmine Koo win Big Ten championship titles
Koo, already the winningest player in program history, became the first Big Ten Champion in USC history Sunday in Glendale.
Women’s tennis team clinches share of Big Ten title with sweep of Indiana
It’s the program’s first Big Ten regular season championship, and first conference title since 2015.
Top Headlines
USC Viterbi analytics students are creating a comprehensive database so the Trojans have quick access the insights needed to win on the gridiron.
Amid pageantry of USC new student convocation, Trojans are urged to boldly ask challenging questions
“That spirit of inquiry is how we advance our academic research, learning and excellence,” USC President Beong-Soo Kim said during his welcome address.
This summer, USC students interned across the public, private and nonprofit sectors in the nation’s capital, working in a variety of industries ranging from business to government to medicine and beyond.
More than 8,000 students have moved into USC’s residential colleges. Fall semester classes begin Monday.
Spotlight: USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Powered by the creative energy of Los Angeles, state-of-the-art facilities, a faculty of leading scholars and practitioners, and a global network of industry partners, the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism connects intellectual rigor and professional practice in ways few schools can. Students gain the knowledge, experiences and connections to shape the future of communication, journalism and public relations.
USC United Against Alzheimer’s
Learn how USC researchers and clinicians are making groundbreaking strides in the treatment, prevention and care of the debilitating disease.
Collaborating in Research and Care
This series showcases how USC researchers and clinicians are on the cusp of a revolution in Alzheimer’s prevention, making groundbreaking strides in the treatment, prevention and care of Alzheimer’s. In the near future, their discoveries promise to make the devastating disease a thing of the past.
Can we prevent Alzheimer’s disease within a decade?
USC researchers are on the cusp of a revolution in Alzheimer’s prevention. In the near future, their discoveries promise to make the devastating disease a thing of the past.
To reduce Alzheimer’s risk, focus on overall health
Researchers across USC are studying how lifestyle and environment influence dementia risk and resilience. They’re finding that what’s good for the body is also good for the brain.
How AI and advanced computing are accelerating Alzheimer’s research
Cutting-edge technologies developed by USC researchers are changing not just the pace of Alzheimer’s disease discoveries but also the ways scientists make those discoveries.
Caring Connections
Keck School of Medicine of USC practitioners connect Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers to leading-edge research — and, just as importantly, to compassionate care.
