2017 Football Roster
Roster
Brandon Pili
- Position:
- Defensive Tackle
- Height:
- 6-4
- Weight:
- 320
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Anchorage, AK
- High School:
- Westview (OR)
CAREER: He has 49 tackles, including 7.5 for losses (with 2.5 sacks), 3 deflections, a forced fumble and a blocked field goal in his career. He has appeared in 38 games in his career, starting 5 times.
2022: Pili, coming back from a torn Achilles, looks to compete to once again be a key member of USC’s defensive line as a redshirt senior in 2022.
2021: The experienced Pili was set to be a key member of USC’s defensive line as a senior in 2021, but he tore an Achilles and had surgery, so he missed the 2021 season.
2020: Pili was a main contributor on the defensive line as a senior in 2020. Overall in 2020 while appearing in USC’s last 4 games (all but Arizona State and Arizona), he had 5 tackles. He had 2 tackles at Utah and 3 versus Oregon. He broke a finger prior to the Arizona State game and missed the Arizona State and Arizona games.
2019: Pili played a key role as a backup defensive tackle as a junior in 2019. Overall in 2019 while appearing in all 13 games and starting once (at Arizona State), he had 18 tackles, including 5 for losses of 18 yards (with 1.5 sacks for minus 12 yards), plus 3 deflections and a forced fumble.
He had a tackle (with 0.5 sack) against Fresno State, 2 deflections at BYU, a tackle and deflection against Utah, 2 tackles at Notre Dame, 2 tackles (1 for a loss) at Colorado, a tackle for loss against Oregon, a tackle for loss and a forced fumble at Arizona State, 3 tackles (with a sack) at California, 6 tackles (0.5 for a loss) against UCLA and 1 tackle against Iowa.
2018: Pili saw key action on the defensive line as a sophomore in 2018. Overall in 2018 while appearing in all 12 games and starting twice (UNLV, Stanford), he made 12 tackles, including 2.5 for losses of 9 yards (with a 6-yard sack). He had 4 tackles (with 1.5 for losses, with 0.5 sack) against UNLV, then 1 tackle each against Texas, Washington State, Utah and Arizona State. He had 3 tackles (with 1 for a loss, including 0.5 sack) at Oregon State and 1 tackle against California.
2017: Pili was a key contributor at defensive tackle as a first-year freshman in 2017. Overall while seeing action in USC’s final 9 games (starting twice, versus Notre Dame and Arizona State), he made 14 tackles and blocked a field goal. He made 2017 All-Pac-12 honorable mention.
He had 3 tackles against Oregon State in his first career action and at Arizona State, 2 tackles versus Notre Dame, Colorado (with a blocked field goal) and Stanford in the Pac-12 Championship Game, and 1 stop against Utah and UCLA.
HIGH SCHOOL: He made 2016 Tacoma News Tribune Western 100 and Tacoma News Tribune Northwest Nuggets Best of the Rest as a senior defensive end at Westview High in Portland (Ore.).
He spent his first 3 years of high school at Dimond High in Anchorage (Ak.), where he had 17 tackles and 1 sack as a 2014 sophomore.
He also was on the track (with bests of 46-8.25 in the shot put and 135-5 in the discus throw and placing fifth in the shot and eighth in the discus in the 2016 state 4A championships) and wrestling (placing fifth and second in the 285-pound division at the state 4A championships as a sophomore and junior) teams at Dimond.
PERSONAL: He is a non-governmental organizations and social change major at USC with a minor in occupational science. He is USC’s first-ever football letterman from Alaska. His sister, Alissa, is a junior on the USC women’s basketball team (she was the 2020 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year).
