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Good and bad news regarding VT/Pitt game weather

If we go 2-0 next two weeks may not be a bad idea to get there Thursday evening and have walk through in Pitt. Dramatic maybe but if it’s the difference btw a playoff appearance or another wasted season it may be a good idea to acclimate the team a day early.
 
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May see some light rain for the VT game (we are no strangers to rainy games this season) but shouldn't be anything too bad from a temp standpoint (mid 50s to lower 60s).

The Pitt game though is continuing to look grimmer with temperatures in the 30s at best, and maybe even below freezing even if the game is played in the afternoon. This team is not built for that kind of game given the roster composition and the fact that the Pitt QB is from Ohio.
 
rberryjr said:
Unfortunately. Spent an hour in the bathroom sink washing my balls 🤦‍♂️. Lesson learned
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Yeah this has gotta be a running without a purpose thing. Same thing happened on my bus to cross country meets. Many such cases of convincing young, dumb runner to apply the icy hot to his balls for peak performance .
 
JackMcClinton89 said:
The good news for the VT game is that it seems highly probable temperatures will be running a little above normal for the VT game in 10 days. Now that doesn't mean SFL normal, but it likely means highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s which should not be problematic for us playing good football assuming they give us a day game.

The bad news is that the pattern could favor cooler than normal temperatures for the Pitt game which would definitely be an issue. Now unlike the high confidence VT prediction, we are talking about 17 days in the future so I wouldn't bet my life on it, but it is concerning to see the potential given that Pitt at the end of Nov is obviously fairly cold as a baseline (even near normal temperatures would be as cold as SFL would ever get). The ACC really screwed us with the schedule in so many ways (unevenly-spaced bye weeks, stacks of road and home games), but giving us Pitt on the road in the last game of the season was really an FU.

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Am I the only one who doesn’t buy this cold weather fear mongering at all? Ever? Have we traditionally lost cold weather games? If so, which ones? And was it because it was actually cold or because we just got outplayed. 2013 we went up to Pitt below freezing. Denzel Perryman and others warmed up with their shirts off outside. We kicked their ***. I can’t remember another game where we played in that kind of cold since, or even before.

2017 at Pitt was mild temperature and 2024 at Syracuse was in a dome.
 
QuattroCane said:
This talk always makes me laugh. I played for 14 years and never once had an issue with cold weather; we loved it as a matter of fact. Sure I can imagine a Wisconsin-type of cold is tough, but otherwise it's great.
You think our OL & DL don't like cooler weather?
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I agree 100%. If anything playing in the Florida August heat is tougher and I’m pretty sure there’s some science to back that up.
 
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LeanMeanOrangeGreen said:
Am I the only one who doesn’t buy this cold weather fear mongering at all? Ever? Have we traditionally lost cold weather games? If so, which ones? And was it because it was actually cold or because we just got outplayed. 2013 we went up to Pitt below freezing. Denzel Perryman and others warmed up with their shirts off outside. We kicked their ***. I can’t remember another game wherey we played in that kind of cold since, or even before.

2017 at Pitt was mild temperature and 2024 at Syracuse was in a dome.
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. At Pitt, we got beat in 2017 (went in 10-0) knocking us out of the playoff and starting a spiral that Richt could never get out of. We have struggled against a lot of teams in cold weather over the past 30 years, but not like the old Tampa Bay Bucs in the NFC Central days. We have also won games at Pitt, BC, Va Tech, etc. when the temperature was close to or below freezing. With a good running game, the weather shouldn't hurt us too much, and we have the D to shut down Pitt regardless of weather.
 
JackMcClinton89 said:
May see some light rain for the VT game (we are no strangers to rainy games this season) but shouldn't be anything too bad from a temp standpoint (mid 50s to lower 60s).

The Pitt game though is continuing to look grimmer with temperatures in the 30s at best, and maybe even below freezing even if the game is played in the afternoon. This team is not built for that kind of game given the roster composition and the fact that the Pitt QB is from Ohio.
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You are insufferable
 
Gennaker Cane said:
. At Pitt, we got beat in 2017 (went in 10-0) knocking us out of the playoff and starting a spiral that Richt could never get out of. We have struggled against a lot of teams in cold weather over the past 30 years, but not like the old Tampa Bay Bucs in the NFC Central days. We have also won games at Pitt, BC, Va Tech, etc. when the temperature was close to or below freezing. With a good running game, the weather shouldn't hurt us too much, and we have the D to shut down Pitt regardless of weather.
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Per Wikipedia, the 2017 game was 43 degrees and sunny. This and it being at noon really isn’t that cold.
 
LeanMeanOrangeGreen said:
I agree 100%. If anything playing in the Florida August heat is tougher and I’m pretty sure there’s some science to back that up.
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Plus there’s heaters and all that on the sidelines. I played football in GA, and I always preferred our spring(Jan-March) workouts over the August ones. Plus it shouldn’t be frigid. It’s not like it’s gonna be the Ice Bowl.
 
LeanMeanOrangeGreen said:
Per Wikipedia, the 2017 game was 43 degrees and sunny. This and it being at noon really isn’t that cold.
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I don't remember the temp but it was sunny. You would have thought we were in Nome, Alaska though, we couldn't complete a pass when we needed to and everyone looked so stiff. Everyone sucked that day.
 
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