USC adds home game against Missouri State to 2025 football schedule

The USC Trojans announced today they will open the 2025 football season with a home game against Missouri State.

The Bears will visit the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 30, 2025. This game is a replacement for the canceled home-and-home series between USC and Ole Miss. It also means USC’s two non-conference home games next year will feature Missouri State and Georgia Southern. The Trojans will also travel to take on Notre Dame.

USC is the only program in the country to never play an FCS opponent and the Trojans will keep that streak alive, barely. Missouri State is currently in the FCS Missouri Valley Football Conference, it will join Conference USA next season, making it an FBS opponent for the Trojans.

These two programs have never met previously.

The Big Ten Conference portion of USC’s 2025 schedule will feature home games against the Iowa Hawkeyes, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan State Spartans, Northwestern Wildcats and UCLA Bruins. The Trojans will travel to take on the Illinois Fighting Illini, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Oregon Ducks and Purdue Boilermakers.

Missouri State made the FCS playoffs each of the past two seasons, losing in the first round both times. The Bears are currently 3-2 this season, with wins against Lindenwood, UT Martin and Youngstown State. Missouri State opened the season with back-to-back losses against Montana and Ball State.

Head coach Ryan Bears took over the Missouri State program ahead of the 2023 season.

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This article was originally published by Erik McKinney at On3 – (https://www.on3.com/teams/usc-trojans/news/usc-adds-home-game-against-missouri-state-to-2025-football-schedule/).

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