re: Wet field (natural grass), who does it favor?

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A wet field favors the offense. The offensive player knows where he going/when he is going to make cuts, the defensive player does not.

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This is the point everyone always brings up and while it is true it doesn’t factor in that the timing of routes is affected by the rain as well. Receivers don’t run their routes or come out of their breaks as quickly, which means the o-line has to block longer, there with be inevitable slips which open up the possibility of INTs, etc. So while it helps the WR I think it hurts the QB and offensive line. The same way our WR knows where they are going and the DB doesn’t and has to react, their DL knows that move they are gonna use and our O-line has to react

IMO I think a sloppy field and weather helps A&M to keep it closer than it would be under clean conditions.