If you're wondering what the weather will be for some of this weekend's biggest college football showdowns, AccuWeather's Geoff Cornish has the answers you want.
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00:00 As we get close to the weekend, we're going to briefly depart from Major League Baseball
00:04 playoff action here and take a look at some big college and one NFL football game.
00:09 One of the big matchups this weekend is a noon Saturday game.
00:13 It's going to be windy and wet and chilly.
00:16 And a lot of different factors are going to contribute to the acuity of the real field
00:19 temperature being a good 10 degrees lower than the actual air temp at the Horseshoe
00:23 there in Columbus for the Penn State-Ohio State game.
00:26 The wind and rain could potentially amplify the running game more than the passing game.
00:31 Now we're going to have no weather hurdles out in Norman, Oklahoma as the Sooners are
00:34 hosting UCF.
00:35 The 78 degrees looking really good.
00:37 Also very comfortable in Tuscaloosa, at least from a weather standpoint.
00:41 May not be a comfortable matchup there for the Tennessee Volunteers.
00:44 We can take it down into Tallahassee for Duke at Florida State.
00:47 A night game.
00:49 Weather looks good here.
00:50 But into Sunday night football here into Philadelphia at the Link.
00:53 The wet weekend will be a memory by Sunday night.
00:56 It will be drier there in Philly.
00:57 Kevin?
00:58 Speaking of the wet weekend, Jeff, we've got to look at that right here.
01:02 Here's the weekend forecast across the lower 48.