From cold rain in Ohio to warmth in Texas, AccuWeather's Geoff Cornish has a look at the forecast for some of this week's biggest football matchups.
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00:00Well, we got Thursday night football into Cleveland, Ohio. Take a look at this here. It's a night game, and we're going to be dealing with a mix of rain and snow around.
00:09Now, one thing that may not be all that obvious is, although we're in a lake effect snow area, places like Cleveland, the lake water temps are a little bit warmer,
00:17and that's going to likely bring mainly rain showers to the downtown area of Cleveland.
00:22So Pittsburgh and Cleveland tonight, often on rain, perhaps some wet snowflakes mixed in.
00:27But I think a lot of you, as you travel south, east, or west away from the lakeshore, you'll begin to encounter some snow on your drive home tonight,
00:34especially if you live down maybe near Youngstown or Canton or Akron.
00:38Looking ahead to Saturday, we got some big action in the Big Ten.
00:41Indiana on a tenacious streak, well, their biggest foe of the season here. Ohio State, certainly, they haven't been tested like this yet.
00:48The weather's going to be cloudy, chilly, mid-40s, upper 40s, and a little bit of a breeze there with temperatures down in the 40s,
00:55but actually with the real feels, kind of flirting near 40 degrees.
00:58Army at Notre Dame, two ranked teams here in the South Bend area, Notre Dame.
01:03And here we're going to be a little chilly as we get into the evening on Saturday night.
01:07They're heading to the home of the Golden Gophers up into Minneapolis.
01:10Penn State at Minnesota, you saw that forecast graphic where we're dry and kind of uneventful, but there will be a lot of clouds out there.
01:16And the winds will be lighter up this way, unlike the winds farther east.
01:20And as we take a look a little bit farther down the line, traveling farther south into Kentucky against Texas and Austin, brilliant sunshine.
01:28We're looking good, very comfortable weather here.
01:30Also, Damian Lotus will be dialed into this one here.
01:33Alabama at Oklahoma in Norman, he's an OU alum.
01:37And there we're dealing with readings falling through the 60s and into the 40s.
01:41Heading into Sunday, here's where we have some clouds, not a whole lot of wind at Soldier Field.
01:46Dallas at Washington, big NFC East matchup, quieter weather in Landover.