NCAA/NFL Football Forecasts: Weather May Play Key Role in Several Games This Weekend

Jonathan Belles
Published: December 2,2016
Some key college and NFL games this weekend will have some challenging December weather to deal with.
The trouble spots will be in the South (rain), the Midwest (light snow) and Northwest (rain, mountain snow).
Here are the games that may experience some impacts from weather.

Saturday (NCAA)

Saturday Football Forecast

Locally heavy rain will drench parts of the South, from Oklahoma and Texas to Mississippi and Alabama. Some light or snow will fall in parts of the Northwest.

Kansas State at TCU (Fort Worth, Texas)

• 12:00 p.m. ET
• Light rain, breezy, chilly

Temple at Navy: AAC Championship Game (Annapolis, Maryland)

• 12:00 p.m. ET
• Windy, but sunny

Oklahoma State at Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma)

• 12:30 p.m. ET
• Light rain, breezy, chilly

Georgia State at Idaho (Moscow, Idaho) 

• 5:00 p.m. ET
• Rain showers possible, chilly

Arkansas State at Texas State (San Marcos, Texas) 

• 7:30 p.m. ET
• Rain likely, breezy

San Diego State at Wyoming: Mountain West Championship Game (Laramie, Wyoming)

• 7:45 p.m. ET
• Windy, cold

Sunday (NFL)

Games will be impacted by snow in the Midwest, rain in the Ohio Valley and increasing cold in the Northwest.

Sunday Football Forecast

Houston at Green Bay

• 1:00 pm ET
• Light snow likely

Philadelphia at Cincinnati 

• 1:00 pm ET
• Scattered showers

San Francisco at Chicago

• 1:00 pm ET
• Light snow likely

New York Giants at Pittsburgh

• 4:25 pm ET
• Slight chance of a shower late

Carolina at Seattle

• 8:30 pm ET
• Cold, can't rule out a shower

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