No. 15 Men's Volleyball Wraps Up Road Trip at No. 5 USC Saturday
It marks Penn State's third-straight top-10 opponent
Series Breakdown
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SERIES HISTORY
• Penn State and USC will meet for the 36th time. The teams first played in 1980.
• USC leads the series 23-12, including a pair of wins last season.
• The Nittany Lions are 1-5 in road matches against the Trojans.
• Gaige Gabriel has hit .323 with 2.23 kills/set and 1.43 blocks/set in two career matches against USC.
SERIES HISTORY VS. USC (LAST 10)
| Year | Winner | Score | Location |
| 2016 | Penn State | 3-0 | Rec Hall |
| 2017 | Penn State | 3-2 | Ohio State |
| 2018 | Penn State | 3-2 | UCLA |
| 2019 | USC | 3-2 | USC |
| 2020 | Penn State | 3-0 | Rec Hall |
| 2022 | USC | 3-1 | UCLA |
| 2023 | Penn State | 3-1 | Rec Hall |
| 2024 | USC | 3-1 | USC |
| 2025 | USC | 3-1 | Ohio State |
| 2025 | USC | 3-0 | Hawaii |
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PENN STATE VS. MPSF
• Penn State is 46-100-1 all-time against current members of the MPSF.
• The Nittany Lions have played six of the 10 teams in the conference. They haven’t played the four newest members -- Jessup, Menlo, UC Merced, and Vanguard.
• Penn State is 0-1 against the MPSF this season with a 3-1 loss to Pepperdine.
| Team | Record | Last Played | Score |
| BYU | 12-15 | 2022 | W, 3-0 |
| CUI | 2-0 | 2023 | W, 3-0 |
| Menlo | 0-0 | -- | -- |
| Jessup | 0-0 | -- | -- |
| Pepperdine | 5-18 | 2026 | L, 1-3 |
| Stanford | 7-7 | 2025 | L, 1-3 |
| UCLA | 8-37-1 | 2025 | L, 0-3 |
| UC Merced | 0-0 | -- | -- |
| USC | 12-23 | 2025 | L, 0-3 |
| Vanguard | 0-0 | -- | -- |
| Total | 46-100-1 |