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Game Thread Game Two: #1 Ohio State 24, #2 Texas 7 (9/9/06)

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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
Ummm..... You realize it's May, right?

Yeah, Texas is hotter than Cbus... and it will be hotter in Texas than it is in Columbus come September... so what? What's the difference between 95 and 105, really? Both are damn hot when you're out ballin. Columbus aint exactly in the artic circle, bro.
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I don't see the heat being much of a factor either, and it was the UT players that were cramping up during the Rose Bowl.
 
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texasfight06 said:
I don't see the heat being much of a factor either, and it was the UT players that were cramping up during the Rose Bowl.
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The only weather related arguments I buy are - 1 - it's harder to hang on to the ball in rain and snow and 2 - it hurts more getting hit hard when it's cold.

Regardless, weather effects both teams equally, and I agree with you that it won't be a signifigant factor. It's my belief that worrying about, or worse COUNTING ON, the weather is a bad sign for your team (I don't mean Texas, when I say this, I mean the team of whomever the weather worrier is going on about)
 
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Game starts at 7 pm for one, which means it will still be perfectly light out, and two, a humid September day in Austin will feel hotter and more physically demanding than a hot day in September in Columbus. I've spent time in one and live in another. Its just a different kind of heat.

Honestly, my belief is similar to others in that the game itself may not be drastically affected, while the fans of each team are more likely to know and feel the difference.
 
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Heat does have a factor also. Im sure many of you guys that played football in middle school, high school, or even college know how hard it is to keep your fatigue up when your running in the dead heat of August. In Ohio when i played football, i always hated practicing during the afternoon. Mornings where not so bad, but the 2-a-days where horrible when it was about 95 degrees and most of it was pure humidity.

But i agree, wind, snow, rain, its all bad weather to play in. Wind really only effects the kickers, and if its strong enough could cause the QB some trouble also. Rain, i think is the toughest one to deal with. It effects nearly every player on the field if the rain is coming down hard enough.

Its pretty hard to run with all the mud, the RBs and QBs are always at a risk of fumbling the ball when its wet and of course kickers planting their foot to kick it are at a greater risk of slipping, even a slight slip, can cause the ball to miss.
 
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High Lonesome said:
If the heat affects anything it will be the fans, players will have cool breeze stations, and plent of other gadgets to keep them comfortable
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well stated.

7 pm in september in Austin, with cool breeze fans on the sidelines

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midday in august in Columbus, during the strenuous fall camp

if there's a difference, it won't be a huge one.
 
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BDtheBuckeye said:
Heat does have a factor also. Im sure many of you guys that played football in middle school, high school, or even college know how hard it is to keep your fatigue up when your running in the dead heat of August. In Ohio when i played football, i always hated practicing during the afternoon. Mornings where not so bad, but the 2-a-days where horrible when it was about 95 degrees and most of it was pure humidity.

But i agree, wind, snow, rain, its all bad weather to play in. Wind really only effects the kickers, and if its strong enough could cause the QB some trouble also. Rain, i think is the toughest one to deal with. It effects nearly every player on the field if the rain is coming down hard enough.

Its pretty hard to run with all the mud, the RBs and QBs are always at a risk of fumbling the ball when its wet and of course kickers planting their foot to kick it are at a greater risk of slipping, even a slight slip, can cause the ball to miss.
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I agree with your statement but the truth is that all weather conditions affect both teams. Its not hot while one team is on defense and not the other. Its not like the rain picks and chooses who to affect. Wind however, can blow for or against a team, that is why i say that it is the only one that really matters
 
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High Lonesome said:
I agree with your statement but the truth is that all weather conditions affect both teams. Its not hot while one team is on defense and not the other. Its not like the rain picks and chooses who to affect. Wind however, can blow for or against a team, that is why i say that it is the only one that really matters
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Oh, i wasnt disagreeing with you. Just stating how weather conditions effect both sides of the ball.
 
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Weather shouldn't be a factor, at least in the sense of it being something that OSU but not Texas will have to overcome. Being in a foreign (to the Bucks) environment, surrounded by an active, hostile crowd will be. That's what impressed me about Young last year, was that he put together that gut-check performance in the lion's den (and no, I'm not talking about that place on east Morse Rd.) Troy and the rest of the offense did not respond well in the hostility of Happy Valley last year, but the response to pressure in Ann Arbor was a thing of beauty. They'll have to do that again, and perhaps moreso (certainly without shooting themselves in the foot so much), in DKR to give themselves a good chance.
 
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