1976 USC Trojans football team

1976 USC Trojans football

Pac-8 champion
Rose Bowl, W 14–6 vs. Michigan
Conference	Pacific-8 Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 2
AP	No. 2
1976 record	11–1 (7–0 Pac-8)
Head coach	John Robinson (1st year)
Captain	Ricky Bell
Captain	Vince Evans
Home stadium	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (c. 94,500, grass)

1976 Pacific-8 football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
#2 USC $	7	–	0	–	0	11	–	1	–	0
#15 UCLA	6	–	1	–	0	9	–	2	–	1
Stanford	5	–	2	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
California	3	–	4	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Washington	3	–	4	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Washington State	2	–	5	–	0	3	–	8	–	0
Oregon	1	–	6	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
Oregon State	1	–	6	–	0	2	–	10	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1976 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1976 NCAA Division I football season. In their first year under head coach John Robinson, the Trojans compiled an 11–1 record (7–0 against conference opponents), won the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) championship, defeated Michigan in the 1977 Rose Bowl, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 386 to 139.^[1] The team was ranked #2 in both the final AP Poll and the final UPI Coaches Poll.

Quarterback Vince Evans led the team in passing, completing 95 of 77 passes for 1,440 yards with ten touchdowns and six interceptions. Ricky Bell led the team in rushing with 280 carries for 1,433 yards and 14 touchdowns. Shelton Diggs led the team in receiving with 37 catches for 655 yards and eight touchdowns.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent^#	Rank^#	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 11	Missouri*	No. 8	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA		L 25–46	49,535
September 18	at Oregon		Autzen Stadium • Eugene, OR		W 53–0	40,600
September 25	at Purdue*	No. 19	Ross–Ade Stadium • West Lafayette, IN		W 31–13	65,425
October 2	Iowa*	No. 13	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA		W 55–0	55,518
October 9	vs. Washington State	No. 11	Kingdome • Seattle, WA		W 23–14	37,268
October 23	Oregon State	No. 7	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA		W 56–0	53,216
October 30	California	No. 4	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA		W 20–6	60,323
November 6	at Stanford	No. 4	Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA		W 48–24	76,500
November 13	Washington	No. 3	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA		W 20–3	49,264
November 20	at No. 2 UCLA	No. 3	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA (Battle for the Victory Bell)	ABC	W 24–14	90,519
November 27	No. 13 Notre Dame*	No. 3	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA (Rivalry)	ABC	W 17–13	76,561
January 1	vs. No. 2 Michigan*	No. 3	Rose Bowl • Pasadena, CA (Rose Bowl)	NBC	W 14–6	106,182
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. ^#Rankings from AP Poll.

Game summaries

Notre Dame

	1	2	3	4	Total
Notre Dame	0	0	0	13	13
• USC	0	7	7	3	17

Date: Saturday, November 27
Location: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California

Scoring summary

2	USC	Shelton Diggs 6-yard pass from Rob Hertel (Glen Walker kick)	USC 7-0

3	USC	Randy Simmrin 63-yard pass from Vince Evans (Glen Walker kick)	USC 14-0

4	Notre Dame	Vagas Ferguson 17-yard pass from Rusty Lisch (kick good)	USC 14-7

4	USC	Glen Walker 48-yard field goal	USC 17-7

4	Notre Dame	Rusty Lisch 1-yard run (two-point conversion failed)	USC 17-13

Ricky Bell was held to 75 yards on 21 carries but USC's passing game thrived with Vince Evans completing six of his 14 passes for 106 yards with Randy Simmrin hauling in six passes for 121 yards and Evans' touchdown pass.

^[3]

References

↑ "Southern California Yearly Results (1975-1979)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
↑ "1976 Southern California Trojans Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
↑ "Trojans Trip Up Error-Prone Irish". Ocala Star-Banner. November 28, 1976. Retrieved November 22, 2014.

USC Trojans football

Venues	Athletic Park (1895–98) Fiesta Park (1897–98, 1904–06, 1916) Chutes Park (1900) Prager Park (1903) Bovard Field (1904–10, 1914–15, 1917–22) Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (1923–present) Howard Jones Field (practice)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Notre Dame (Jeweled Shillelagh) UCLA (Victory Bell) Stanford

Culture & lore	Traveler George Tirebiter Giles Pellerin "Fight On" Spirit of Troy Student Body Right Tommy Trojan Athletics scandal 1967 "Game of the Century" "Bush Push" 2007 Stanford game

People	Head coaches Starting quarterbacks NFL draftees Statistical leaders

Seasons	1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

National championship seasons in bold

Pac-12 Conference football champions

Pacific Coast	Washington (1916) Washington State (1917) California (1918) Oregon & Washington (1919) California (1920) California (1921) California (1922) California (1923) Stanford (1924) Washington (1925) Stanford (1926) Idaho, Stanford, & USC (1927) USC (1928) USC (1929) Washington State (1930) USC (1931) USC (1932) Oregon & Stanford (1933) Stanford (1934) California, Stanford, & UCLA (1935) Washington (1936) California (1937) California & USC (1938) USC (1939) Stanford (1940) Oregon State (1941) UCLA (1942) USC (1943) USC (1944) USC (1945) UCLA (1946) USC (1947) California & Oregon (1948) California (1949) California (1950) Stanford (1951) USC (1952) UCLA (1953) UCLA (1954) UCLA (1955) Oregon State (1956) Oregon & Oregon State (1957) California (1958)

AAWU	UCLA, USC, & Washington (1959) Washington (1960) UCLA (1961) USC (1962) Washington (1963) Oregon State & USC (1964) UCLA (1965) USC (1966) USC (1967)

Pacific-8	USC (1968) USC (1969) Stanford (1970) Stanford (1971) USC (1972) USC (1973) USC (1974) California & UCLA (1975) USC (1976) Washington (1977)

Pacific-10	USC (1978) USC (1979) Washington (1980) Washington (1981) UCLA (1982) UCLA (1983) USC (1984) UCLA (1985) Arizona State (1986) USC & UCLA (1987) USC (1988) USC (1989) Washington (1990) Washington (1991) Washington & Stanford (1992) Arizona, UCLA, & USC (1993) Oregon (1994) USC & Washington (1995) Arizona State (1996) UCLA & Washington State (1997) UCLA (1998) Stanford (1999) Oregon, Oregon State, & Washington (2000) Oregon (2001) USC & Washington State (2002) USC (2003) USC (2004) vacated USC (2005) vacated California & USC (2006) Arizona State & USC (2007) USC (2008) Oregon (2009) Oregon (2010)

Pac-12	Oregon (2011) Stanford (2012) Stanford (2013) Oregon (2014) Stanford (2015) Washington (2016)

National championships in bold

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/15/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.