A few folks have questioned how much it affects southern teams to play up north in the winter. I haven't come across any hard data for college football, but I found a reddit poster who crunched the numbers for the NFL. The conclusion? The effect is statistically significant, but not huge. Here's a link if you want to look:
If you just want the quick version, the home team won NFL games 57.2% of the time overall in the time period studied. When it was a warm-weather team playing in temperatures 32 degrees or below, the home team won 63.4% of the time.
If only the Hoosiers were from Bloomington, TX rather than Bloomington, IN!
If you just want the quick version, the home team won NFL games 57.2% of the time overall in the time period studied. When it was a warm-weather team playing in temperatures 32 degrees or below, the home team won 63.4% of the time.
If only the Hoosiers were from Bloomington, TX rather than Bloomington, IN!
