[Papa John]

Interesting info Papa John.  I would have thought the temperatures to be colder than that.

Back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I got my Bachelors degree from Penn State.  There were quite a few games played at Beaver Stadium (PSU's home field) where the temp never went above mid thirties in late November.  This was on a natural grass field.  While I can't speak for the players, I don't remember it being that much of an obstacle.

I grew up in Ohio, "normal" temps would not be a problem for the people who live there, they know how to dress in the cold, problems in terms of comfort would happen in the outlier events, like the AFC championship came in Cin in 1982 (aka the Freezer Bowl), but those are few and far between.  What would be really unpleasant is sleet/freezing rain.......

Air temperature was −9 °F (−22.8 °C), but the wind chill, factoring in a sustained wind of 27 miles per hour, was −37 °F

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freezer_Bowl

Good point, 82lsju. The "typical" temps that I posted did not take into account wind chill. There's a brobdingnagian difference between 20°F and calm wind and 20°F and 20 mph wind (feels like 4 degrees!).

I think there are indoor--or at least covered--baseball/football stadiums in Saint Louis, Minneapolis, Detroit, Indianapolis and Milwaukee. There are also covered football stadiums for UNI and some of the Dakota schools. There won't be fans in January or February, so there's a possible workaround for at least some of the B1G teams.

[Papa John]

Interesting info Papa John.  I would have thought the temperatures to be colder than that.

Back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I got my Bachelors degree from Penn State.  There were quite a few games played at Beaver Stadium (PSU's home field) where the temp never went above mid thirties in late November.  This was on a natural grass field.  While I can't speak for the players, I don't remember it being that much of an obstacle.

I grew up in Ohio, "normal" temps would not be a problem for the people who live there, they know how to dress in the cold, problems in terms of comfort would happen in the outlier events, like the AFC championship came in Cin in 1982 (aka the Freezer Bowl), but those are few and far between.  What would be really unpleasant is sleet/freezing rain.......

Air temperature was −9 °F (−22.8 °C), but the wind chill, factoring in a sustained wind of 27 miles per hour, was −37 °F

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freezer_Bowl

Good point, 82lsju. The "typical" temps that I posted did not take into account wind chill. There's a brobdingnagian difference between 20°F and calm wind and 20°F and 20 mph wind (feels like 4 degrees!).

I think there are indoor--or at least covered--baseball/football stadiums in Saint Louis, Minneapolis, Detroit, Indianapolis and Milwaukee. There are also covered football stadiums for UNI and some of the Dakota schools. There won't be fans in January or February, so there's a possible workaround for at least some of the B1G teams.