How will the weather affect this week's biggest football games? AccuWeather's Geoff Cornish has the details.
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00:00All right. Let's take a look at that sports forecast and Thursday night football. We've got some action in northern Ohio now. During the day, there will be some rain and some snow in various parts of the state. If we put ourselves right along the lakeshore, though, in Cleveland, Ohio, the water temps are warm enough that it's going to be just marginally warmer in downtown Cleveland. It will be maybe 15 miles to the south. So mainly rain falling for the Pittsburgh Cleveland game.
00:26But some of you traveling to the game and especially going home, you're going to encounter some snowflakes away from the immediate lakeshore. Jumping ahead to Saturday, drier, less eventful here for some big time college football games. Here we have a tremendous year for Indiana, my goodness, but they're going to face their biggest foe of the season. By far their biggest challenge. Ohio State, lots of clouds. The weather's probably not going to get in their way too much, but it will be chilly with a bit of a breeze. Temperatures in the 40s, an ocean of clouds over that area and also up into the home of the Golden Gophers, Penn State.
00:56On the road, number four, heading to play the Golden Gophers there in Minneapolis. A lot of clouds, not much wind here. We step away from the wind going up into the upper Midwest. Army against Notre Dame. Here we have a battle of ranked teams here in Notre Dame, Indiana, near South Bend. A lot of clouds, not much wind, but we'll be in the upper 30s, low 40s, kind of chilly. Stepping south into the Southern Plains for some other matchups. Kentucky, they got their hands full in Austin against University of Texas. Sunshine, warm, beautiful weather.
01:26They're in the 70s, a little bit of a breeze, and Alabama playing the Sooners heading to Oklahoma. Damien, well, he'll be dialed into this one, I think, and we have dealing with temperatures falling through the upper 50s later in that game. A quick look at the overall weekend forecast for some NFL prospects. Minnesota at Soldier Field. Clouds generally dry, falling, rising into the mid 50s there, and we could take you elsewhere down into Charlotte. A lot of sunshine and mid 60s.