USC will face TCU in the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio on Dec. 30, organizers announced Sunday.
The Alamo Bowl has the first choice among former and current Pac-12 teams and Big 12 Conference teams after the College Football Playoff.
The Trojans (9-3) will be making their first appearance in the Alamo Bowl, which has been played annually since 1993, and has had a Pac-12 representative each season since 2010. It also had a Pac-12 representative in the 1993 and 1994 seasons.
The Big Ten supplied the opponent for the Southwest Conference team in 1995 and the Big 12 team from the 1995 through 2009 seasons.
USC is 2-3 against the Horned Frogs, including a 28-19 loss in the 1998 Sun Bowl, the most recent meeting between the two schools.
TCU (8-4) will be making its third Alamo Bowl appearance. It defeated Oregon, 47-41, in triple-overtime on Jan. 2, 2016, and Stanford, 39-37, on Dec. 28, 2017.
The Trojans were ranked 16th in both The Associated Press poll and College Football Playoff rankings released Sunday. USC moved up one spot from the previous AP poll and was unchanged from Tuesday’s College Football Playoff rankings.
The Horned Frogs had one voting point in the AP poll released Sunday and were not in the College Football Playoff rankings.