The USC-Ohio State football series began in 1937. We have been providing brief recollections of the various regular-season installments of this series, dating back to that first meeting in the Los Angeles Coliseum. The 1990 meeting between the two teams was unremarkable in terms of what actually happened on the field that day, and for the rest of the season. The Trojans defeated the Buckeyes in Columbus, 35-26. By season’s end, USC had finished with an 8-4-1 record and a loss in the John Hancock Bowl. Ohio State had a 7-4-1 record and ended its year with a Liberty Bowl loss. Neither team was particularly good. The two coaches, Larry Smith of USC and John Cooper of Ohio State, were struggling. Smith was on the downslope of his USC career. Cooper was going through a rough time in Columbus. Had a less patient athletic director existed, he might have been…
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