Weather will definitely be a factor!

[Alanbama27]

The high saturday is supposed to be 89 and the humidity could be as high as 81% according to the weather service forecast! That should kill those guys from Utah in the 3rd and 4th quarters. Similar to how it killed us in Hawaii this past December!

 

[Big tide fan forever]

I was wondering, I just watched the weather channel and the hurrican is going to be hitting florida saturday, will any of that hit T town saturday night?

 

[Alanbama27]

No, it isn't expected to hit Alabama (if it actually does)

Until late Sunday or early Monday.

 

[Bamafanman]

feel bad for those in florida.. that hurricane is already a monster level 4 and 5 days away from landfall.

 

[CrimsonGlory]

I agree that Utah State will be challenged by the weather, but it really comes down to conditioning. And I feel good about our guy's conditioning. Remember last year in Legion Field how hot it was against South Florida. Of all teams you'd expect S. FL to be used to the weather, but they were cramping up in the fourth quarter like crazy.

 

[Alanbama27]

I agree Crimson - Conditioning is the key, however, >>>

you can't be conditioned for that type of humidity if you're never acclimated to it and since they live in the mountains, they won't be acclimated to it. That causes you to sweat a lot and then you forget to hydrate and you cramp! I would actually look for cramping from the USU's guys by the end of the first quarter for the WR's and RB's and by the end of the first half for the O and D Lines.

 

[JessN]

you can't be conditioned for that type of humidity if you're never acclimated to it and since they live in the mountains, they won't be acclimated to it. That causes you to sweat a lot and then you forget to hydrate and you cramp! I would actually look for cramping from the USU's guys by the end of the first quarter for the WR's and RB's and by the end of the first half for the O and D Lines.

That's what everybody thought heading into the 1998 season opener with BYU that, despite the fact it was a night game, is still one of the hottest games I've ever personally attended.

However, John David Phillips was the first player to have problems cramping, and by the end of the night, more Alabama than BYU players had fallen victim to it.

Perhaps that was a function of DuBose's conditioning program, I don't know. The key isn't so much what you're accustomed to, it's what you mentioned about "remembering to rehydrate" that is crucial.

I've been in Utah in the summer. And let me tell you, "dry heat" or not, it was plenty hot for me. I spent a week at the Bonneville Salt Flats (which is actually surrounded by some fairly significant hill country) covering the land-speed records and my Alabama pedigree didn't help me much in avoiding the perils of overheating.

 

[BamaArrived2006]

Well i'm agreeing with Alan and Crinsom because I saw the same thing out of USF last season and my mother found it funny as I did too because they are from Fla, and couldn't handle the heat and humidity.

Also Jess I think most of that had to do with Dubose but Utah has like no humidity, and I don't see USU lasting that long!!!!

:biga2:

 

[Storm Surge]

I think that the heat/humidity thing is overstated. It can get awfully hot in Utah during the summer. They have desert conditions out there and aren't IN the mountains. I've been out in the Salt Lake City area and the west in general and it does get hot. They don't have as much humidity but make no mistake about it, it does get hot in Utah. It would be different though if it was one of those last really hot weekends of the season in early October (i.e. the UGA game in 2002) against a team from the Pacific Northwest. By then it has cooled down considerably in the Northwest and can still get really hot down here.

 

[TideToots]

Utah State may be ready for the heat but they won't be able to handle the rising high TIDAL WAVE ! Drown'em BAMA ROLL TIDE ROLL !!

 

[RyTide]

The Tide

They will be hot ,but the Tide e`l cool e`m off!

 

[TIDE-HSV]

I remember...

hiking in Arches National Park, near Moab, UT, last summer. The humidities were very low, of course, but the temps were well above 100. In fact, I think the average high there in August is 99. On hikes of 8-9 miles or so, we were drinking around two liters each. And that was below the recommended intake. IOW, to paraphrase the old saying, "it wasn't the humidity; it was the heat." I think the humidity factor has been a bit overstated. They're used to tremendous desert heat and they're used to having to hydrate. It's not like they're from a genuinely temperate zone, say like Northern California...