At kickoff, the heat index at Notre Dame Stadium was 98 degrees. And that was the least oppressive part of the weather Saturday.
The heat spawned two waves of severe thunderstorms that rolled through northern Indiana Saturday, delaying Notre Dame's battle with South Florida for nearly three hours.
"I'm from California. They don't have thunder and all that other crap," said running back Cierre Wood when asked if he had ever experienced anything like Saturday's atmospheric shenanigans.
The delay at halftime was the worst, lasting two hours and 10 minutes as lightning struck all around Notre Dame's campus. That meant each side had to deal with about 120 minutes of downtime before taking the field for a warmups.
"Everybody was pretty antsy," said safety Harrison Smith. "At first we just sat in the locker room, just like it was halftime. Then they kept delaying it, so we took our shoulder pads off, trying to air out -- we were all wet. It was almost like a two-a-day for us, so we were kind of used to it."
But, despite the two-a-day feel, it was all new to Smith.
"I've never experienced anything like that," said Smith. "I guess it's part of the game, so, you just gotta go with it."
The other side, however, did experience a weather delay earlier this year. South Florida experienced a lightning delay at its first scrimmage this year in Vero Beach, according to coach Skip Holtz.
"The players were in there saying, coach, we've been here before, we've got it, we're all right," said Holtz, adding a caveat. "You can't prepare for what either team had to go through today. I don't care, you can't prepare. The NCAA won't allow you a 20-hour work week, won't allow you to spend an eight-our day trying to get one practice in."
Although Notre Dame's surge out of the gates in the third quarter, explained by Smith and quarterback Tommy Rees as a product of the atmosphere at the stadium, was seen in a different light
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I was at this game it was not a UFO just lightning.
JordanMarkezich 1 month ago
Ball lightning
Snor835 1 month ago
I've got mixed thoughts of these "rods", my first thought was insect. But then I saw something that made me wonder. If you have the movie Saving Private Ryan, foward it to the scene where they are walking in a field of yellow plants. It the part where they are about to meet up with Pvt. Ryan. Just before the German Armored vehicle scene there's a straight shot of Tom Sizemore "spell?" you will here a noticeable "pop" on his jacket. If you slow it down, you will see something that resembles a r
falsch 3 months ago
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SmokingMan47 4 months ago
I believe in rods but this is a bird... even in bad resolution you can see the flapping of the wings
ELobodeplata 4 months ago
@XboxLiwe i agree that it definitely reacted to the lighting and by its pattern of flight is most likely a bird its very difficult to judge distance of an UFO.
entity623 5 months ago
Looks like a bug in a light?
TruthSmack 5 months ago
Fake no UFO at notre dame lame
FanYankee213 5 months ago
Either it's intelligent life from other planets saying hey, or one SCARED shitless bird
XboxLiwe 5 months ago
there is footage of a san francisco giants game with a UFO, it was yesterdays game.
2813kasim 5 months ago