re: The Miami Hurricanes dressed out roughly 40 players against LSU in 1988

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Umbrellas were still allowed in the stadium.
however, i did not have room to open mine and got soaked

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It Would not have mattered in that rain storm You were getting soaked with or without an umbrella. Opening an umbrella to stay dry on that night was like putting a bandaid on a bullet wound.

As an aside, one of tthe Miami players from that night comes regularly to my office (I’m a physician). He told me Ralph Norwood hit an all-american Hurricane defensive lineman so hard the Miami player was out and when helped back to the bench told everyone who asked him for the next 10 minutes—“I’ll be all right, just get me some M&Ms. Just some M&Ms, man.” Over and over and over.

I remember that game and the punt snap incident. I've never sat through rain and wind that hard in my life. They brought their live mascot for that one.

I will look into it, normally a team in that era has about 75 men on the travel team at that time.

Injuries and other issue take away form the normal limit on the travel team.

I was at the game that night, but left at half time due to the rain, an a prier commitment.

I wonder why they roughly dressed out?

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was at the game (was 14 at the time). Umbrellas were still allowed in the stadium. however, i did not have room to open mine and got soaked

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Umbrellas only help when the rain is falling vertically. It was raining horizontally that night. Everybody in the stadium got soaked to the bone.