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Arkansas Game Time?

Discussion in 'RayGator's Swamp Gas' started by TWGator, Oct 15, 2023.

  1. Distant Gator

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    That was 1983.
    I wasn't there but it was my first year at UF and I remember it well.
    The only bowl game in my 4 years at UF.
     
  2. SilverG

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    1983. 10th rank Iowa vs 11th ranked Gators. Below 32 at start of game. Gators won. Iowa fans all decked out in Iowa cold weather gear - Gators fans not so equipped with blankets & anything to keep warm!
     
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  3. og8trz

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    Coldest Gator game I attended was the 1983 Gator Bowl vs Iowa at 17 degrees.

    I didn’t go, but heard the -981 Peach Bowl in old Fulton County Stadium was worse due to rain & about 35 degrees?!
     
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  4. AgingGator

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    I was at that Iowa game and my tickets were on the NE side top row. In those days the top row was a metal bench with a chain link fence tied along the back. Nothing to stop the breeze coming off the Atlantic and the river. It was the coldest I think I’ve felt in my life including sitting on a broken ski lift for an hour at Killington. Good thing we had stopped at Jax Liquor on way into town to buy our supplies. We bought a lot of “mixers” that night. Good thing we won that night.
     
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  5. tigator2019

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    In my head--- UF
    Gator Bowl v Iowa was brutally cold
    SECCG - game 1 I think was cold as well in Birmingham
    All American bowl in 1988 freezing.
    Peach Bowl was ridiculously cold
     
  6. archigator_96

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    LSU Bama will get the 3:30 slot. If CBS does a double header that will be UGAG/Mizoo.

    It's possible that we get the 7 pm slot on SEC network.
     
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  7. AgingGator

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    Birmingham that day was damn cold, and it was a damp cold. Plus it was Birmingham. Fortunately by then I had better cold weather clothing than I did in 1983 for that Gator Bowl.
     
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  8. RayGator

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    Don’t know but would prefer 3:30 P.M. BY far like 3:30 P.M. CBS for Gators! But 4:00 P.M. would be OK too. Just NO night games for Gators!
     
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  9. n210sgator

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    Night games are good for me.
    Maybe not so good for our team:confused:
     
  10. n210sgator

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    Was there for that one as well - in the “iron bowl”…
    They gave us GATOR fans, the shittiest seats up in the corner of the end zone and I remember going to the men’s restroom just to unfreeze my numb fingers with the heaters they had on the wall:confused:
     
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  12. Brodeur

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    Nov. 4 is a CBS SEC double header weekend. ESPN I believe only has one pick that weekend since they can't air an SEC game while CBS does. I think its safe to assume Bama @ LSU will be the evening CBS game. Mizzou @ UGA and aTm @ Ole Miss should get the afternoon CBS and noon ESPN slots, respectively.

    This means our game falls to SECN. I don't know what time slot SECN values the most, but we should get whatever that is.
     
  13. gator_n_sc

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    4:00 pm will probably be the time on SECN
     
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  14. gbranton

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    The coldest game I ever attended was also one of the most exciting, the 2001 GMAC Bowl at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, AL. Marshall versus East Carolina. I had gotten free tickets to the game the day of and just went to the stadium after work, so I didn’t put a lot of planning into the whole thing. The weather was in the 50s and I had a thin windbreaker on, so I thought I’d be fine. I didn’t know a cold front was rolling in until temps dropped to the low 30s with wind. I would have left (as many did) but the game was so incredible that I stuck it out to the end. Two overtimes. 64-61 Marshall. 102 points in regulation. Sixteen touchdowns. Byron Leftwich threw for 576. There isn’t sufficient parking near the stadium, so the best way to get in and out is by bus. I had to wait on a bus for almost another hour after the game. I felt bad for two days afterward because of the cold.
     
  15. gatorPUNX

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    I think so - with a questionable PI call. I mostly could not pay attention to the game because of the drastic temperature drop :D
     
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  16. spike718

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    Coldest game I ever went to it was, let me try to remember..it was -90 degrees. -130 with wind chill. I wore shorts and a t shirt and drank a few cold, nearly frozen beers. No big deal.
     
  17. Crusher

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    Packers fan, eh?
     
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  18. LakeGator

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    The ticket office sent an email stating that this game is a sellout.

    There are resale tickets available at or near this page.
     
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