Valley Children's Stadium weather

    Live weather and kickoff forecast for Valley Children's Stadium in Fresno, where Central Valley heat lingers well past sunset early in the season.

    Home team: Fresno State Bulldogs
    Mountain West Conference
    Roof: Open
    Surface: Natural Grass
    Capacity: 41,031
    Field bearing: 0° N

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    Game-time forecast at Valley Children's Stadium

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    The next college football game at Valley Children's Stadium is Rice Owls at Fresno State Bulldogs, Saturday 26 September at 7:00 pm venue time. Live conditions at the ground are briefly unavailable — the reading refreshes on its own.

    Next match at Valley Children's Stadium: Bulldogs v Owls

    Fresno State Bulldogs v Rice Owls weather at Valley Children's Stadium

    Fresno State Bulldogs host Rice Owls at Valley Children's Stadium on Saturday 26 September at 7:00 pm venue time.

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    Live stadium conditions

    Live conditions are not available right now. They refresh automatically when the station responds.

    Live readings are context only. The game-time read uses the forecast at kickoff.

    Why Valley Children's Stadium plays differently

    Central Valley heat is extreme for afternoon kicks; tule fog is possible for late-season night games.

    Game-time weather read

    No fixture is scheduled at Valley Children's Stadium yet. The game-time weather read is written automatically 3 hours before kickoff once a match is on the calendar.

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    Upcoming games at Valley Children's Stadium

    • Rice Owls at Fresno State BulldogsSat, 26 Sept, 7:00 pm venue time
    • Boise State Broncos at Fresno State BulldogsSat, 10 Oct, 7:30 pm venue time

    Last games at Valley Children's Stadium: conditions vs total

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    Valley Children's Stadium weather FAQs

    About this page

    Valley Children's Stadium weather is updated live and produces a game-time forecast read for every home game. The page uses one permanent URL for the venue; match-up details rotate as the schedule changes, so search results always point to current conditions. Our own study of 4,330 college football games found wind alone showed no material scoring deviation, so we keep these reads descriptive — conditions and context, not exaggerated edge claims.

    What the research says

    The published studies behind the read on this page at Valley Children's Stadium. Every figure is season-adjusted, with sample sizes and t-statistics shown.

    • College Football Wind & Kicking

      Crosswind — resolved against each venue's true field bearing — bends field-goal accuracy. Game totals show no material deviation.

      4,330 games

    • College Football Heat & Humidity Shock

      Do cool-climate teams underperform when they travel into hot, humid Southern venues in August and September? Graded against closing lines, with control games alongside.

      Ten seasons of Aug–Sept road games

    • College Football Extreme Heat & Totals

      A widely repeated claim says non-conference games go Over about 59% of the time at 85–106°F. Our data: 52.8% against a 49.1% control — no meaningful edge.

      Ten seasons of kickoff-hour temperatures graded against closing totals

    • College Football Rain & Totals

      Rain does not measurably move college football scoring. Wet games sit within a fraction of a point of dry games once each season is accounted for, and the Over rate barely shifts.

      1,441 outdoor games with closing totals, 2016–2025 (211 wet)

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