re: Coldest game in Tiger Stadium

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Those who don't understand how cold it was weren't there. The wind that night was crazy.

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agreed...I knew exactly how cold it was predicted to be....dressed in my hunting garb, and still couldn't stop shivering...

Arkansas, 2007. The wind kept whipping around the bowl, and all those damn CBS timeouts and OTs made the damn thing last 5 hrs.

Troy game is only game I left early. Stupid Tigerstadium no re-entry rules. I went into the stadium early...but I was wearing my workout attire(I forgot to change) and so I was trying to bear that cold in shorts and a t-shirt and NO MONEY. All I had on me was my student ID. I felt stupid the second I got to my seat.

I told everyone at halftime when I was leaving that we were going to come back and win and that wasn't why I was leaving. Some nice girl did buy me a hot chocolate at the end of the first to convince me to stay for the second quarter.

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Alabama 2002. Cold as all get out.

Add in we lost 31-0.

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First thing that came to mind when I read the thread title.

Ole Miss 93.

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03 Arkansas

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brutal winds during the whole game. we left early

Both Notre Dame 1997 and Alabama 2002 were in the mid-40s during the game.

I went to a meaningless game some time in the 70s, 1974 I think. We played Utah. The game was re-scheduled due to an early season hurricane. It followed our traditional, back then, end of the year Tulane game.

A cold front came through the night before, and I was in the South end zone. The flags flew straight out the entire game with the wind out of the North at about 200 to 300 miles per hour. The temperature was at or below freezing. I think there was actually ice starting to form in little puddles left over from the rain the night before, but I could be wrong. As bitterly cold as it was, it only got worse when the people in front of us left at the half. The wind was in our face, and I turned around to see the fans left. We had less people there than if it had been a wake and funeral for a serial killer. I remember hot chocolate being sold out before half.

I was in Minnesota two years ago at Christmas when the temperature was -8, and I was warmer then on a frozen lake drinking beer with ice fishermen than in Tiger stadium that night. All the rest of the games that people mentioned, I have been to 95% of them at least. Cold is like beauty, in the eye of the beholder; however, I can think of no game like that one.

Thanks for the trip down a frozen memory lane!!!

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Both Notre Dame 1997 and Alabama 2002 were in the mid-40s during the game.

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It was 43 at kickoff for the Alabama game and the low was in the mid 20s that night. So it was dropping through the 30s. Especially in the 2nd half.

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Yes, it was horrible, I was there with my young son of 8, and we froze to death and my tears were freezing as they ran down my face as to how badly we got beaten that night. Still don't understand how I believe we were favored to win.

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If this is about the Utah "experience," we beat them both times that we played them according to lsusports.