re: How many times has southern heat and humidity been a major factor

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in early season games at home against non-Southern out of conference opponents?

I’m just old enough to remember, in 2003, when a highly ranked Auburn team opened the season against Southern Cal, and a lot of the pregame talk centered around Southern Cal not being ready for the late August heat and humidity in Auburn. It was about 90 degrees that day, but Southern Cal won 23-0.

Obviously Southern Cal won that game because they had a good team that year and Auburn struggled, though had a lot of good players that would go 13-0 the next season.

The logic makes sense, though, as it’s very difficult to play in those conditions if you’re not used to it, but off of the top of my head I can’t remember a high profile game where a team from the north or west wilted in the late summer southern heat.

I guess we’ll see when Utah plays at Florida week one. I think Utah has the better team but I’m not discounting the possibility that the weather does get to them.

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Boise State seemed to struggle with it when they played UGA in Athens. UGA won 48-13 despite BSU being in the top 20.

Not so much when we played them in the Georgia Dome a few years later and lost... but that's a dome.

ASU didn't really seem to be impacted when they came to Athens. Much closer game than it should have been.

Most of our OOC games are against southern teams (or cupcakes).

**edit** forgot ND. They didn't seem to be impacted by the humidity either. It's probably more about depth that a team has to rotate to fight the humidity more than anything else.