Hottest / Coldest Football Game You've Attended

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Hottest: TN vs. UCLA 1991 12:30 start time. Smokey suffered a heat stroke and died the next week sometime, IIRC. Temperature was over 100 degrees on the field that day.

Coldest: TN vs. Vandy 1977. The game was played in sub-freezing temperatures. Half of the turf in Neyland Stadium was a sheet of ice because it was in the shade the entire game.

BTW, TN won both games.
 
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Cotton Bowl against K-State the coldest. Casey Clausen could not throw the ball, but at halftime the Kilgore Rangerettes did their usual great show including dance routine with splits on the frozen field. Troopers! :good!:
 
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All the @UF games are hot. Memorably: 2015 and 2003, both seated high in the upper deck visitor section in the blazing sun. Home v Florida 2016 was hot but we didn't give a crap. There was a UAB game (opener?) in the mid 2000s that we left in the 2nd quarter due to heat and unhappy women.

Music City Bowl v UNC was pretty chilly, iirc. Never seen real snow at a game.
 
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This is different in that it's not the hottest or coldest but that '92 Fla game was the wettest I've ever been! The bottom literally fell plum out of the sky and dumped what seemed like feet, not inches of water. I remember looking down and it was so much water the drains couldn't handle it and water started backing up to the endzone!
 
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Backwards K said:
I was in Starkville in 1990. I had forgotten that but I agree, that was the hottest game I have ever attended. About 95 degrees and % humidity!
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we went down on a bus which was parked outside the gate. Got to get on at halftime which I think saved me. It was brutally hot at that one...
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
With the temperature exceeding 93 degress in Orlando today, heat index of 110 degrees with 100% humidity thrown in for good measure, a co-worker who's a UT alum and I were comparing notes on the hottest (and coldest) CFB game we've attended.

We both said, without question, hottest game was the 2003 UF-UT game in Gainesville. Noon kickoff, not a cloud in the sky, no breeze, easily 97 degrees in the shade.

He said your Cotton Bowl game against K-State(?) was the coldest he'd experienced.
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I second that Kansas State game in Dallas! My feet are still thawing out from that one!
 
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UF 2015. Imagine sitting in the Florida sun with a wool band uniform. It was humid,too. That was the killer. And the game sucked, too!
 
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Coldest was an Air Force night game vs. Colorado State at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO. Thursday night, ESPN, good guys Air Force won. October game got down into the 20's with a nasty wind chill and flurries.

Hottest game was....a high school scrimmage against South Pittsburg in 1981. Sweat came raining down. We were both good teams that learned a lot from each other. We (Huntland) finished 9-1 and nobody would play us in a bowl game...too scared. low 90's and 100% humidity.

Attendance wise: TN vs Arky in Little Rock was pretty hot too. I had a coon skin hat and an inflatable Vol Helmet sitting in the middle of Arky central courtesy of some scalper. They were fairly nice to me. We won by 10, I think 38-28, perhaps 1989 or 1991 as Arky was new to the SEC and one of our SECwest Rivals after Auburn backed out. I think it was about 85 degrees and 100% humidity.
 
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The '93 game in Gainesville vs. UF and the '97 game in Pasadena vs. UCLA were a couple of the hottest I remember attending. It poured rain late in the 4th quarter of that '93 game in Gainesville, but feeling like a drowned rat actually felt better than the heat. And last year's game against UF was pretty hot, although I was oblivious to weather in the 2nd half during the Big Orange Avalanche!

The '14 game in Columbia vs. USC lite was cold. Glad I didn't leave early, so enjoyed the late heroics from Dobbs & Co in a half empty stadium.
 
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HuntlandVolinColo said:
Hottest game was....a high school scrimmage against South Pittsburg in 1981. Sweat came raining down. We were both good teams that learned a lot from each other. We (Huntland) finished 9-1 and nobody would play us in a bowl game...too scared. low 90's and 100% humidity.
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Ole Region 5A days. Who did ya'll lose to that year? Had to have been a region game. Was the DRVC around then?
 
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eskimovol said:
Coldest I've been to was the OT game vs the gamecocks (2014?), the wind in their stadium showed no mercy and cut straight to the bone.
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I can attest the SC game was cold and wind was just as you described. I live in SC an that was one of the coldest days I can remember.

Fun fact, on the way out the stadium many gamecock fans threw their gloves on the ground so if you wanted to...

There must have been a hundred gloves on the ground, it was great to see their frustration!
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
With the temperature exceeding 93 degress in Orlando today, heat index of 110 degrees with 100% humidity thrown in for good measure, a co-worker who's a UT alum and I were comparing notes on the hottest (and coldest) CFB game we've attended.

We both said, without question, hottest game was the 2003 UF-UT game in Gainesville. Noon kickoff, not a cloud in the sky, no breeze, easily 97 degrees in the shade.

He said your Cotton Bowl game against K-State(?) was the coldest he'd experienced.
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Saw the Jets play the last game at the Meadowlands... January 3rd 2012.... froze my arse off
 
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I can easily remember the hottest and coldest games because of how much I enjoyed the two best drinks of my entire life.

Hottest: 1991 UCLA. I've been to 8 or 9 UT games in the state of Florida, but I've never experienced anything like the '91 UCLA game in Knoxville. I was six rows up and the field was still astroturf. My brother brought me a ice cold Coke at halftime and that's the most refreshing cold drink I've ever drunk.

Coldest: 1990 Kentucky. I've been to quite a few games in Lexington and also the Miracle at South Bend, but the '90 Kentucky game was by far the coldest for me. The craziest part was how the temperature dropped during the game. Before the game, I was in an orange t-shirt. My dad told me to take my coat because the stadium (not a bowl back then) sucked air right through. I refused several times since it was warm and I didn't want to wear a bluejean jacket to cover up my orange shirt behind blue, but luckily he was persistent. It was the Levi's redneck version with the faux fleece and by the 2nd quarter it wasn't enough. They sold so much hot chocolate that they ran out of cups. My dad asked them to sell it in a big plastic popcorn bucket and, surprisingly, they obliged. My dad is good at that. That was definitely the best warm drink I've ever drunk. You know the Pepto commercials that show the Pepto going down the esophagus and into the stomach? I could feel that visual as the first sip went down my throat and splashed in my belly. I was chilled to the core and that felt so good.
 
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Outback bowl last year was pretty darn hot. I had to leave the reindeer home. lol

Coldest game wasn't college. 2003 Ravens vs Bengals. 2 feet of snow and 25 - 30 mile an hour winds. Barely remember the actual game as my brain was frozen by the 2nd quarter.
 

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The hottest, 1985 in Florida, heat index was 113 on the field and it was in October. We were only a few rows from the field, all sorts of people were passing out.
The coldest was 1981 Kentucky in Lexington, it was 20, spitting snow and the wind was blowing about 15 to 20. And you know the warmest place was the bathroom.
 
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bigslk said:
The hottest, 1985 in Florida, heat index was 113 on the field and it was in October. We were only a few rows from the field, all sorts of people were passing out.
The coldest was 1981 Kentucky in Lexington, it was 20, spitting snow and the wind was blowing about 15 to 20. And you know the warmest place was the bathroom.
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y'all don't know what hot is if you didn't attend a game in Gainesville when Florida had AstroTurf
 
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Rice vs Mississippi State Dec 31st 2013, 23 degrees at 4 o'clock. I was good to staybthe entire game, my wife was not, we left at the end of the first quarter. She ended up stealing my carhart jacket and my beanie and I was left in a UT hoody and bought a a rice hat on the way out , our 3 mo baby's (at the time) middle name starts with an R and it was our first game married.
 
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2010 in Gainesville... I'm going to the southern miss game on November 4th this year. Hope it's nice and cool.
 
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