FirstBank Stadium, Nashville

FirstBank Stadium: 7:30 pm Saturdays score 93, noon Saturdays 88

Home of Vanderbilt · SEC · capacity 40,351 · Turf

90 is Comfortable, and most stadiums score lower.

How the rank works

All 167 stadiums with eight seasons of regular-season Saturdays are ranked by their weather score across every kickoff time, highest first; 1st is the most pleasant. A season can swing a score by 2 to 3 points, so allowing for year-to-year noise (about two chances in three) it ranks between 20th and 81st.

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All Saturdays

  • noon: 88, Mixed
  • 3:30 pm: 89, Mixed
  • 7:30 pm: 93, Comfortable

Weather score at each kickoff time.

September

In September at FirstBank Stadium, a 7:30 pm Saturday scores 99 and a noon Saturday 78.

  • noon: 78, Mixed
  • 3:30 pm: 80, Mixed
  • 7:30 pm: 99, Comfortable

Weather score at each kickoff time.

October

In October at FirstBank Stadium, a 7:30 pm Saturday scores 96 and a noon Saturday 91.

  • noon: 91, Comfortable
  • 3:30 pm: 94, Comfortable
  • 7:30 pm: 96, Comfortable

Weather score at each kickoff time.

November

In November at FirstBank Stadium, a noon Saturday scores 96 and a 7:30 pm Saturday 87.

  • noon: 96, Comfortable
  • 3:30 pm: 93, Comfortable
  • 7:30 pm: 87, Mixed

Weather score at each kickoff time.

At kickoff, regular-season Saturdays, 2018 to 2025: 111 at noon, 110 at 3:30 pm, 90 at 7:30 pm.

All Saturdays

Best kickoff time: 7:30 pm (93). Roughest kickoff time: noon and 3:30 pm (88 and 89).

September

Best kickoff time: 7:30 pm (99). Roughest kickoff time: noon and 3:30 pm (78 and 80).

October

Best kickoff time: 3:30 pm and 7:30 pm (94 and 96). Roughest kickoff time: noon (91).

November

Best kickoff time: noon (96). Roughest kickoff time: 7:30 pm (87).

The roughest kickoff time is the lowest of the day's times. It can still be Mixed or Comfortable.

What goes with it

Share of Saturdays here that feel this way over the first 3 hours and 20 minutes after kickoff.

All Saturdays

Feel 85°F or hotter

noon17 in 100
3:30 pm14 in 100
7:30 pm1 in 100

September

Feel 85°F or hotter

noon43 in 100
3:30 pm35 in 100
7:30 pm4 in 100

October

Feel 85°F or hotter

noon9 in 100
3:30 pm6 in 100
7:30 pm0 in 100

November

Feel under 32°F

noon2 in 100
3:30 pm5 in 100
7:30 pm8 in 100

Weather score: 0 to 100, higher is better. Ideal is 100, Comfortable 90 to 99, Mixed 75 to 89, Rough 50 to 74, Harsh under 50.

Across all Saturdays, FirstBank Stadium scores higher than 10 of the other 15 SEC stadiums

All Saturdays

  1. Jordan-Hare Stadium (Auburn): 91, Comfortable
  2. FirstBank Stadium (Vanderbilt): 90, Comfortable
  3. Neyland Stadium (Tennessee): 90, Comfortable
  4. Sanford Stadium (Georgia): 90, Comfortable
  5. Vaught-Hemingway Stadium (Ole Miss): 90, Comfortable
  6. Williams-Brice Stadium (South Carolina): 90, Comfortable
  7. Kroger Field (Kentucky): 89, Mixed
  8. Bryant-Denny Stadium (Alabama): 88, Mixed
  9. Davis Wade Stadium (Mississippi State): 88, Mixed
  10. Memorial Stadium (Missouri): 88, Mixed
  11. Razorback Stadium (Arkansas): 88, Mixed
  12. Memorial Stadium (Oklahoma): 87, Mixed
  13. Tiger Stadium (LSU): 85, Mixed
  14. Ben Hill Griffin Stadium (Florida): 84, Mixed
  15. DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium (Texas): 82, Mixed
  16. Kyle Field (Texas A&M): 82, Mixed

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FirstBank Stadium scores 90, higher than 10, lower than 1 and level with 4 of the other 15 SEC stadiums. Scores run 82 to 91.

Noon Saturdays

  1. Kroger Field (Kentucky): 90, Comfortable
  2. Neyland Stadium (Tennessee): 90, Comfortable
  3. FirstBank Stadium (Vanderbilt): 88, Mixed
  4. Jordan-Hare Stadium (Auburn): 88, Mixed
  5. Memorial Stadium (Missouri): 88, Mixed
  6. Sanford Stadium (Georgia): 88, Mixed
  7. Vaught-Hemingway Stadium (Ole Miss): 88, Mixed
  8. Razorback Stadium (Arkansas): 87, Mixed
  9. Williams-Brice Stadium (South Carolina): 87, Mixed
  10. Memorial Stadium (Oklahoma): 86, Mixed
  11. Davis Wade Stadium (Mississippi State): 85, Mixed
  12. Bryant-Denny Stadium (Alabama): 83, Mixed
  13. Tiger Stadium (LSU): 78, Mixed
  14. Ben Hill Griffin Stadium (Florida): 77, Mixed
  15. DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium (Texas): 77, Mixed
  16. Kyle Field (Texas A&M): 76, Mixed

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FirstBank Stadium scores 88, higher than 9, lower than 2 and level with 4 of the other 15 SEC stadiums. Scores run 76 to 90.

3:30 pm Saturdays

  1. Jordan-Hare Stadium (Auburn): 90, Comfortable
  2. FirstBank Stadium (Vanderbilt): 89, Mixed
  3. Neyland Stadium (Tennessee): 88, Mixed
  4. Kroger Field (Kentucky): 87, Mixed
  5. Sanford Stadium (Georgia): 87, Mixed
  6. Vaught-Hemingway Stadium (Ole Miss): 87, Mixed
  7. Williams-Brice Stadium (South Carolina): 87, Mixed
  8. Davis Wade Stadium (Mississippi State): 86, Mixed
  9. Memorial Stadium (Missouri): 86, Mixed
  10. Razorback Stadium (Arkansas): 86, Mixed
  11. Bryant-Denny Stadium (Alabama): 85, Mixed
  12. Memorial Stadium (Oklahoma): 83, Mixed
  13. Tiger Stadium (LSU): 81, Mixed
  14. Ben Hill Griffin Stadium (Florida): 80, Mixed
  15. DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium (Texas): 77, Mixed
  16. Kyle Field (Texas A&M): 76, Mixed

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FirstBank Stadium scores 89, higher than 14, lower than 1 of the other 15 SEC stadiums. Scores run 76 to 90.

7:30 pm Saturdays

  1. Ben Hill Griffin Stadium (Florida): 97, Comfortable
  2. Jordan-Hare Stadium (Auburn): 96, Comfortable
  3. Sanford Stadium (Georgia): 96, Comfortable
  4. Tiger Stadium (LSU): 96, Comfortable
  5. Bryant-Denny Stadium (Alabama): 95, Comfortable
  6. Williams-Brice Stadium (South Carolina): 95, Comfortable
  7. Davis Wade Stadium (Mississippi State): 94, Comfortable
  8. Vaught-Hemingway Stadium (Ole Miss): 94, Comfortable
  9. DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium (Texas): 93, Comfortable
  10. FirstBank Stadium (Vanderbilt): 93, Comfortable
  11. Kyle Field (Texas A&M): 93, Comfortable
  12. Neyland Stadium (Tennessee): 93, Comfortable
  13. Memorial Stadium (Oklahoma): 92, Comfortable
  14. Razorback Stadium (Arkansas): 92, Comfortable
  15. Kroger Field (Kentucky): 90, Comfortable
  16. Memorial Stadium (Missouri): 90, Comfortable

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FirstBank Stadium scores 93, higher than 4, lower than 8 and level with 3 of the other 15 SEC stadiums. Scores run 90 to 97.

One dot per stadium: 16 SEC stadiums. Every SEC stadium by month.

More about FirstBank Stadium

The SEC's smallest stadium, about 40,000 seats, sits on Vanderbilt's campus in Nashville.

The table behind this page
Weather score by part of the season and kickoff time, FirstBank Stadium.
SeasonNoon3:30 pm7:30 pm
All Saturdays888993
September788099
October919496
November969387
Saturdays counted11111090
How this is measured

The score covers the first 3 hours and 20 minutes after kickoff, averaged over every regular-season Saturday from late August to early December, 2018 to 2025, using the nearest airport’s readings, not the stands. Shade, delays and smoke are not in it. Scores within about 2 points are effectively tied. It describes what these Saturdays were like. It is not a forecast and it says nothing about home advantage.

Weather observations: National Weather Service, through the Iowa Environmental Mesonet at Iowa State University. Weather score version 2.2.