Veterans Memorial Stadium, Troy
Veterans Memorial Stadium: 7:30 pm Saturdays score 96, noon Saturdays 81
Home of Troy · Sun Belt · capacity 30,000 · Turf
- 88all Saturdays, Mixed
- 90thof 167 stadiums
88 is Mixed, and about as many stadiums score higher as 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 56th and 119th.
Show a month
All Saturdays
- noon: 81, Mixed
- 3:30 pm: 86, Mixed
- 7:30 pm: 96, Comfortable
Weather score at each kickoff time.
September
In September at Veterans Memorial Stadium, a 7:30 pm Saturday scores 98 and a noon Saturday 64.
- noon: 64, Rough
- 3:30 pm: 68, Rough
- 7:30 pm: 98, Comfortable
Weather score at each kickoff time.
October
In October at Veterans Memorial Stadium, a 7:30 pm Saturday scores 99 and a noon Saturday 83.
- noon: 83, Mixed
- 3:30 pm: 92, Comfortable
- 7:30 pm: 99, Comfortable
Weather score at each kickoff time.
November
In November, kickoff time makes little difference in these Saturdays at Veterans Memorial Stadium: scores run 93 to 96, all Comfortable.
- noon: 95, Comfortable
- 3:30 pm: 96, Comfortable
- 7:30 pm: 93, Comfortable
Weather score at each kickoff time.
At kickoff, 110 regular-season Saturdays at each kickoff time, 2018 to 2025.
All Saturdays
Best kickoff time: 7:30 pm (96). Roughest kickoff time: noon (81).
September
Best kickoff time: 7:30 pm (98). Roughest kickoff time: noon (64).
October
Best kickoff time: 7:30 pm (99). Roughest kickoff time: noon (83).
November
Little difference by kickoff time. Noon 95, 3:30 pm 96, 7:30 pm 93.
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
September
Feel 85°F or hotter
October
Feel 85°F or hotter
November
At every kickoff time, fewer than 5 in 100 of November Saturdays here feel 85°F or hotter, and fewer than 5 in 100 feel under 32°F.
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, Veterans Memorial Stadium scores higher than 5 of the other 13 Sun Belt stadiums
All Saturdays
- S.B. Ballard Stadium (Old Dominion): 92, Comfortable
- Bridgeforth Stadium (James Madison): 91, Comfortable
- Brooks Stadium (Coastal Carolina): 91, Comfortable
- Joan C. Edwards Stadium (Marshall): 91, Comfortable
- Allen E. Paulson Stadium (Georgia Southern): 90, Comfortable
- Center Parc Stadium (Georgia State): 90, Comfortable
- Kidd Brewer Stadium (App State): 90, Comfortable
- Centennial Bank Stadium (Arkansas State): 88, Mixed
- Veterans Memorial Stadium (Troy): 88, Mixed
- Joe Aillet Stadium (Louisiana Tech): 87, Mixed
- M. M. Roberts Stadium (Southern Miss): 87, Mixed
- Hancock Whitney Stadium (South Alabama): 86, Mixed
- Malone Stadium (UL Monroe): 86, Mixed
- Cajun Field (Louisiana): 84, Mixed
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Veterans Memorial Stadium scores 88, higher than 5, lower than 7 and level with 1 of the other 13 Sun Belt stadiums. Scores run 84 to 92.
Noon Saturdays
- Bridgeforth Stadium (James Madison): 93, Comfortable
- Kidd Brewer Stadium (App State): 92, Comfortable
- Joan C. Edwards Stadium (Marshall): 91, Comfortable
- S.B. Ballard Stadium (Old Dominion): 90, Comfortable
- Brooks Stadium (Coastal Carolina): 88, Mixed
- Center Parc Stadium (Georgia State): 88, Mixed
- Allen E. Paulson Stadium (Georgia Southern): 86, Mixed
- Centennial Bank Stadium (Arkansas State): 86, Mixed
- Joe Aillet Stadium (Louisiana Tech): 84, Mixed
- M. M. Roberts Stadium (Southern Miss): 81, Mixed
- Veterans Memorial Stadium (Troy): 81, Mixed
- Malone Stadium (UL Monroe): 80, Mixed
- Hancock Whitney Stadium (South Alabama): 79, Mixed
- Cajun Field (Louisiana): 78, Mixed
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Veterans Memorial Stadium scores 81, higher than 3, lower than 9 and level with 1 of the other 13 Sun Belt stadiums. Scores run 78 to 93.
3:30 pm Saturdays
- Bridgeforth Stadium (James Madison): 90, Comfortable
- Kidd Brewer Stadium (App State): 90, Comfortable
- S.B. Ballard Stadium (Old Dominion): 90, Comfortable
- Brooks Stadium (Coastal Carolina): 89, Mixed
- Joan C. Edwards Stadium (Marshall): 89, Mixed
- Allen E. Paulson Stadium (Georgia Southern): 86, Mixed
- Center Parc Stadium (Georgia State): 86, Mixed
- Veterans Memorial Stadium (Troy): 86, Mixed
- Centennial Bank Stadium (Arkansas State): 85, Mixed
- M. M. Roberts Stadium (Southern Miss): 84, Mixed
- Hancock Whitney Stadium (South Alabama): 83, Mixed
- Joe Aillet Stadium (Louisiana Tech): 83, Mixed
- Malone Stadium (UL Monroe): 82, Mixed
- Cajun Field (Louisiana): 81, Mixed
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Veterans Memorial Stadium scores 86, higher than 6, lower than 5 and level with 2 of the other 13 Sun Belt stadiums. Scores run 81 to 90.
7:30 pm Saturdays
- Allen E. Paulson Stadium (Georgia Southern): 96, Comfortable
- Brooks Stadium (Coastal Carolina): 96, Comfortable
- Hancock Whitney Stadium (South Alabama): 96, Comfortable
- M. M. Roberts Stadium (Southern Miss): 96, Comfortable
- Veterans Memorial Stadium (Troy): 96, Comfortable
- Cajun Field (Louisiana): 95, Comfortable
- Center Parc Stadium (Georgia State): 95, Comfortable
- Malone Stadium (UL Monroe): 95, Comfortable
- S.B. Ballard Stadium (Old Dominion): 95, Comfortable
- Joe Aillet Stadium (Louisiana Tech): 94, Comfortable
- Centennial Bank Stadium (Arkansas State): 93, Comfortable
- Joan C. Edwards Stadium (Marshall): 93, Comfortable
- Bridgeforth Stadium (James Madison): 90, Comfortable
- Kidd Brewer Stadium (App State): 88, Mixed
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Veterans Memorial Stadium scores 96, tied for the highest of the 14 Sun Belt stadiums, with 4 others. Scores run 88 to 96.
One dot per stadium: 14 Sun Belt stadiums. Every Sun Belt stadium by month.
More about Veterans Memorial Stadium
- The roughest game played hereCampbell at Troy, Aug. 31, 2019: weather score 56 (Rough). Storms took off the most points.
- This weekUL Monroe at Troy, Saturday, Oct. 24, 4:00 pm ET.
- Kickoff timesHow games here landed among each Saturday’s kickoff times.
- NetworksHow kickoff times and TV networks line up.
The table behind this page
| Season | Noon | 3:30 pm | 7:30 pm |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Saturdays | 81 | 86 | 96 |
| September | 64 | 68 | 98 |
| October | 83 | 92 | 99 |
| November | 95 | 96 | 93 |
| Saturdays counted | 110 | 110 | 110 |
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.