Weather smiles down on Ducks, Gophers with 36 hours to kick

Two weeks in a row the Ducks have played in cold, wind and rain, but Friday night's game against Minnesota looks like a reprieve for the team and their fans. | Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn ImagesAccording to the website Extreme Weather Watch the all-time high in Eugene for November 14 is 68 degrees, set in 1912. The all-time low hit in 1978, a very Minnesota-like 14 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature that'd set even Gophers scurrying for a dry bed of leaves on uphill ground.

After two straight weeks of slantwise, incessant rain and wind gusts that threatened to send even the tightest spirals into the third row, Friday's conditions are perfect football…