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Under the weather?

While we’re talking about home-field advantages, let’s incorporate home-climate advantages.

The Tigers played at Syracuse in 2001, but that was inside the Carrier Dome, which, despite it’s name, has no air conditioning. The last time Auburn played as high up on the map in an outdoor venue was the old Kickoff Classic against the Miami Hurricanes at Giants Stadium, in East Rutherford, N.C.

That was in August 1984.

A game at a place like WVU — cold weather, colder fans — doesn’t happen because 1) Auburn doesn’t have to do it and 2) Auburn doesn’t like to do it.

The last time that program came so far north so late in the season was a game at Villanova on Nov. 22, 1941. The Tigers haven’t played a nonconference road game since Georgia Tech in 2003.

This year, or  any year, for that matter, the Tigers haven’t dealt with the cold very often.

Auburn has played five games in sub-50-degree weather since 2000. That bleak Iron Bowl, with a 41-degree game time temperature, was the coldest.

The chill Thursday night when Auburn plays at West Virginia could be almost as biting.

According to forecasts by The Weather Channel, Morgantown will have a daytime high of 59 degrees and an overnight low of 37 on Thursday. …

The coolest temperature at kickoff so far this season was Oct. 11, when Auburn and Arkansas contended with a pleasant 73-degree afternoon.

Let’s not completely disregard this as a factor because it is somewhat foreign. I interviewed Sen’Derrick Marks — seriously, watch No. 94 — Monday night after practice. The temperature, he said, was in the 60s and people were beginning to wonder and worry about the weather in Morgantown.

“It’s been weighing on a couple people’s minds because we know once we get there, it’s going to be cold. We’ve got a lot of Florida boys on our team and any time they get a little cool, like tonight, when it’s not even cold, they get in their long-sleeved shirts and practice in their tights. It may take a toll on them, but I think as the game goes along, they’ll get used to it.”Â