UF’s altitude strategy

[Ghost of the HEB]

Spend the least amount of time here possible. Supposedly they’re flying in midday/evening Wednesday.

Napier on Utah, altitude, said research with UF sports science said it would take 10 days to get fully acclimated, said he felt best strategy, based on talkng to NFL teams, is to get in and get out. #Gators
— KevinBrockwayGators (@KevinBrockwayG1) August 25, 2023

[thirtyfour-thirtyone]

Here is a meta-paper on the issue: paper link

I had always heard that the “fly-in fly-out” strategy was second best to proper long term acclimation (i.e. better than the intermediate strategy of showing up a day or two before), but apparently there is not really much data to back this up.

High elevation does make for a solid home-field advantage, but high elevation teams can’t train as hard as lower elevation teams, so there are some tradeoffs (especially for max speed / max-power sorts of efforts).

[HoosierUte]

Wow that seems like a terrible strategy…

[DieHardUtahUtesFan]

Utah’s strategy:
Offense – run on 1st down, run on 2nd down, and pass (or have the qb run to the 1st down marker) on 3rd and long.
Defense – man coverage on the outside and mix up the pass rush.