Dressed and ready for Florida game in December

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#29
With our luck it will be 85 on December 5th.

Having said that, from my experience, cold weather does not have that much of an affect on players or the outcome of the game. Once you get your body heat up, you don't really feel the cold, even in shorts at 19 degrees. Heat is a much bigger factor because it highlights who is really in shape. I love the heat, so I always felt I had an advantage in matches where the thermometer hovered around 95.
 
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ftsandersvol said:
With our luck it will be 85 on December 5th.

Having said that, from my experience, cold weather does not have that much of an affect on players or the outcome of the game. Once you get your body heat up, you don't really feel the cold, even in shorts at 19 degrees. Heat is a much bigger factor because it highlights who is really in shape. I love the heat, so I always felt I had an advantage in matches where the thermometer hovered around 95.
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In most cases, but I gotta say, that day Butch Jones broke the streak, that was the hottest day I've ever been to in Neyland. People dropping like flys (flys do drop ya know) and no breeze whatsoever. Florida's team standing on the sidelines in the sun and the Vols over in the shade. I think it mattered.
 
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ptcarter said:
I lived in Cocoa Beach for a few years. Cracked me up when it hit 45 degrees - kids at the bus stop.. (Then later I did the same thing).
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Always assumed cocoa beach had cocoa pebbles as a beach instead of sand
 
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ptcarter said:
In most cases, but I gotta say, that day Butch Jones broke the streak, that was the hottest day I've ever been to in Neyland. People dropping like flys (flys do drop ya know) and no breeze whatsoever. Florida's team standing on the sidelines in the sun and the Vols over in the shade. I think it mattered.
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It is always been one of the strangest things to me ever. We have home-field advantage and still our team stands facing into the sun. Not only on hot days is that difficult, but coaches and players have a harder time looking out onto the field all day. While the opponent is over in the shade and has a much more relaxing view with light coming from behind them.

I was glad for that a couple of years ago when they finally changed it. I'm sure it originally had something to do with TV cameras or maybe something about cylons from the press Box.
 
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livefaith said:
Not at all far fetched considering the schedule. Our W-L predictions gonna need a serious evaluation that to the elimination of the 3 patsie games being eliminated.
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Yea they will I don’t think we are at a point where any SEC game is a gimmie
 
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ftsandersvol said:
With our luck it will be 85 on December 5th.

Having said that, from my experience, cold weather does not have that much of an affect on players or the outcome of the game. Once you get your body heat up, you don't really feel the cold, even in shorts at 19 degrees. Heat is a much bigger factor because it highlights who is really in shape. I love the heat, so I always felt I had an advantage in matches where the thermometer hovered around 95.
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Then you were simply "really in shape for 95," but not as in shape for cooler temps.
 
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DuckinVol said:
Then you were simply "really in shape for 95," but not as in shape for cooler temps.
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I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but my experience is that in cooler temperatures you simply do not tire as quickly. I've always said to my teammates when the temperature is below 60 you can run forever.
 
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Vol_from_86 said:
The psychological edge it will produce is significant, believe it or not.
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the reality is UF would have the advantage scientifically. Cooler, more dense air carries more oxygen. Thus the only disadvantage would be to the Vols when playing UF in a hot, humid, enviroment because their players are more used to it.
 
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tbones0711 said:
the reality is UF would have the advantage scientifically. Cooler, more dense air carries more oxygen. Thus the only disadvantage would be to the Vols when playing UF in a hot, humid, environment because their players are more used to it.
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While that's all true, it doesn't make the psychological component any less real. It's fair to say the psychological advantage that Florida has had over Tennessee in recent years has cost us a few wins.

It's like drinking your own urine in a survival situation... science says it dehydrates you, but if it gives you the psychological edge you need to climb out of a deadly ravine or swim through shark infested waters... drink up and get after it!
 
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Florida plays at Vandy and at Missouri in mid and late November every other year so they aren’t completely unfamiliar with colder weather. This year they play in Nashville two weeks before they go to Knoxville, that should help them have an idea.

However, if there is snow or some sort of ice event, I can see where that may affect UF. But if you’re just talking about colder temps, I don’t think it’ll affect UF all that much.
 
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My great great grand momma said if you ain't got nutin good to say to a gator....don't say it !
 
#47
#47
Tennessee will have an advantage in this game because more Tennessee players will be used to the cold weather and the sidelines will probably have heaters.
 
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Jaws said:
Florida plays at Vandy and at Missouri in mid and late November every other year so they aren’t completely unfamiliar with colder weather. This year they play in Nashville two weeks before they go to Knoxville, that should help them have an idea.

However, if there is snow or some sort of ice event, I can see where that may affect UF. But if you’re just talking about colder temps, I don’t think it’ll affect UF all that much.
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The phony part of all this is that this topic comes up as if we’re talking about Lambeau Field in January. All of those Ice Bowl games that have featured Tennessee over the years.

Based on who Florida is going to be as a team, the biggest weather concern would be wind.
 
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