College Football Weather

This week's weather: Week 8

The table above carries all 56 of this week's games with wind, gust, rain chance, temperature, humidity, altitude and travel distance, sortable by any column and filterable by alert or conference. Every row links to that game's own page, where the forecast sits alongside the line and the model.

Use the week strip to move between weeks: each has its own page, and those are the working view that turns over as the season advances. This page is the standing one, and it always shows the week currently on the board.

Open the Week 8 weather page

What counts as weather worth checking

Not every forecast changes a football game. Blue Chip Analytics flags a game on the weekly tables when a reading crosses one of these thresholds, and leaves it alone otherwise - a mild afternoon is not a story.

A steady 15 mph crosswind is a kicking problem all afternoon; a gust spike is a timing problem on individual snaps. They are flagged separately because they are different problems.

When the forecast is worth acting on

A stadium forecast is only as good as its distance from kickoff. Readings taken well outside the reliable window are long-range estimates - useful for spotting a venue that is usually exposed, not for pricing a specific game - and every Blue Chip Analytics game page labels them as such and shows the date the reading was actually taken.

This is why this page ranks no “windiest games of the season”. Until a week is inside the forecast window, the readings behind such a table describe the venue on the day the data was pulled rather than the game being played, and a ranking built on them would look authoritative while meaning nothing. The weekly tables carry the live readings; the game pages carry the caveat.

Indoor venues

The one weather answer that does not move: 27 of the 2026 season's 888 games are played under a roof, across 6 venues. For those games there is no forecast to weigh, and Blue Chip Analytics suppresses the weather panel entirely rather than printing a row of zeroes that invites the reader to weigh fields that do not apply.

How weather moves a college football line

Weather is mostly a totals factor rather than a sides factor. Wind degrades both offences at once - the passing game and the kicking game before anything else - so it lowers the points expected in the game without changing which team is better. That is why a forecast can be dramatic and still leave the spread alone.

Blue Chip Analytics measured this against historical open-to-close line movement rather than assuming it. The measured size of the effect, the wind bands it applies to, and the honest limits of the finding are set out on the pages that own that work: