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United Airlines Field at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum | Los Angeles, Calif.

Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025

Team 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q Final
Iowa 7 14 0 0 21
USC 0 10 9 7 26

• With the 26-21 win, No. 17 USC moves to 8-2 overall and 6-1 in Big Ten play. No. 21 Iowa falls to 6-4, 4-3.
• USC improves to 8-3 all-time against Iowa. This is the first time Head Coach Lincoln Riley has ever faced the Hawkeyes.
• The last time USC played in the rain at the Coliseum was on Nov. 26, 2016 against Notre Dame. USC defeated the Fighting Irish 45-27.
• USC has a 25-25-2 record in games in which it rained during a major portion of the contest. USC’s last rain game was at Notre Dame earlier this season (USC lost, 34-24).
• Heading into halftime, USC was down 21-10. Prior to Saturday, the most USC had been down by at the half this season was eight points against Nebraska, which ended in a 21-17 USC victory. The Trojans are now 2-2 when trailing at the half (losses at Illinois, Notre Dame).
• The last time USC came back to win a game after being down by double-digit points at the half was against UCLA on Dec. 12, 2020. The Trojans were down 21-10 against the Bruins, and eventually went on to score 33 points in the third and fourth quarters to come out with the 43-38 win.
• WR Makai Lemon hit a new milestone this season as he recorded his 1,000th receiving yard on a 24-yard catch with 13:47 in the third quarter. He finished with 153 yards and a TD in the game, giving him 1,090 yards on the year. Saturday was his fifth 100-yard receiving game this season and his fourth game with at least 150 yards receiving.
• Lemon added a late TD to get the Trojans within two (21-19) at the 3:33 mark in the third quarter. Lemon now has 8 TDs on the season.
• RB King Miller had a new season-high in rushing attempts, finishing the game with 19. He’s had 18 on three different occasions this season – versus Michigan, at Notre Dame and at Nebraska. Miller finished with 83-yards rushing.
• RB Bryan Jackson scored the only Trojan TD of the first half on a 1-yard run with 9:15 to go in the second quarter. It was Jackson’s first TD since the Trojans played Michigan on Oct. 11.
• Jackson also scored the go-ahead touchdown with 13:36 in the fourth quarter to give USC its first lead of the game. It was the first 2-TD game of Jackson’s career.
• DT Jahkeem Stewart recorded the first INT of his Trojan career in the third quarter.
• The USC defense held Iowa scoreless in the second half, marking the third straight game the Trojans have held an opponent to 3 or fewer points in the second half. Saturday marked the first time this season USC has held an opponent scoreless for an entire half.
• The last time USC held opponent defenses to 3 points or less in the second half three games in a row was in 2013 (Game 7 at Notre Dame – the Fighting Irish scored 0 points in the second half [USC L, 10-14]; Game 8 versus Utah – the Utes scored 0 points in the second half [USC W, 19-3]; Game 9 at Oregon State – the Beavers scored 0 points in the second half [USC W, 31-14).
• After being outgained in total yardage 212-156 in the first half, USC outgained Iowa 204-108 in the second half.
• The Hawkeyes managed just 5 first downs in the second half after having 12 in the first.
• USC didn’t score its first TD until 9:19 in the second quarter. There is only one other game where it took longer for USC to score a touchdown this year – against Nebraska, when the Trojans didn’t register a TD until the third quarter.

HEAD COACH LINCOLN RILEY
Opening statement:
“First of all, thank you to all the people that have served in the military. Military Appreciation Day is very near to this place, and it’s an honor to go out and play this game for them. Just a big thank you from our entire football program. That’s a culture win, right there. If there ever was one, that was a culture win. We didn’t play very good football in the first half. Our team’s resilience and response at halftime was impressive. We brought the guys up right away when we came in at the half, which we don’t typically do. You could tell from the look in their eye that they knew we didn’t play our best, and they knew we could go out and really make a run at this thing. This team’s resilience, whether it’s a tough stretch of plays, whether it’s losing some players here and there throughout the year and obviously happened some in this game. We just keep coming, and we have all year. That was a big, big time team win. All three sides were really, really good there in the second half, and to comeback and get that done was a really cool feeling. Just a great moment out there in the Coliseum for our whole program.”