Ravens vs Bills Weather Forecast: Baltimore set to play one of the coldest games in franchise history

Make no mistake about it, it’s going to be cold up in Orchard Park, N.Y.

The Baltimore Ravens go on the road to play the Buffalo Bills in the final Divisional Round playoff game this weekend. Kickoff will be at 6:30 p.m. ET, well over an hour after the sun has set.

According to AccuWeather, the evening temperature will be 16 degrees with a “RealFeel” of 6 degrees as of this posting. You’d have to go back years to find a colder Ravens game.

Coldest game temperatures in Ravens history

The Ravens have played 30 games with a temperature of 32 degrees or lower, per Pro Football Reference. Only three of them have featured temperatures below 20 degrees.

Most recently, Baltimore hosted the Atlanta Falcons on Christmas Eve in 2022 when it was 17 degrees at M&T Bank Stadium. The Ravens’ 2017 regular season finale against the Cincinnati Bengals was 19 degrees.

Neither of those games were as cold as Baltimore’s double-overtime playoff win over the Denver Broncos in 2013. It was 13 degrees that night in Mile High Stadium when Joe Flacco connected on a now famous touchdown to the late Jacoby Jones that sent the Wild Card Round thriller to extra time. The Ravens, of course, won their second Super Bowl a few weeks later.

It could very easily be colder than that Sunday night when the game is coming to an end. Oddsmakers predict it to be a close game with Baltimore a 1.5-point favorite, so overtime is certainly a possibility.

When the air is that cold, running the ball is always a good idea. Baltimore was three feet short of 300 rushing yards last Saturday in its Wild Card victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers with 186 of them coming from Derrick Henry.

If that game plan needs replicated in a frigid climate, the Ravens will surely be prepared.