In the 1964 college football season, USC and Ohio State were far from the top tier of the sport. The 1964 campaign was a Southern and Southwestern season, with Arkansas winning the national title and Alabama playing Texas in a classic Orange Bowl game. USC won the 1962 national championship but then went through a lull of several seasons before its late-1960s rise to supreme power under O.J. Simpson, which launched the heart of the John McKay dynasty and fed into the greatest 13-year run in program history, from 1967 through 1979. Ohio State similarly became a true college football superpower in the late 1960s, delivering annual top-tier results on a regular basis. Buy Trojans Tickets Both schools eventually took off, but in the 1960s, they were still stuck on the launching pad. In 1964, USC lost to Ohio State on the road, 17-0. The Trojans ended the year with…
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