On Sunday, the Titans will face an unfamiliar foe that the team has not encountered this season.

With the weather expected to be 38-degrees at game time and a 32-degree wind chill, the Titans will play their first football game of the season with the temperature below 40-degrees.

Titans wide receiver Drew Bennett said that the weather for Sunday's game will not be a factor once the two teams line up at Orchard Park.

''There's nothing you can really do,'' Bennett said. ''It's kind of mind over matter. I don't think there are too many guys that are going to complain about it when they get out on the field for the first time. But when the whistle blows and you get warmed up, it's no big deal.''

Some of the Titans players said they will use additional apparel to play in the cold weather. Titans quarterback Vince Young said he will use a hand-warmer against the Bills, unlike many quarterbacks around the league that wear gloves in cold weather to get a better grip on the football.

''I don't really believe in those gloves,'' Young said. ''I'm kind of old-fashioned like the rest of those guys that go out there and play and use the warmer. I don't care about the gloves.''

The Titans will look to beat the cold weather and the Bills in order to improve to 8-7 and have a winning record for the first time in the 2006 season.

On the season, the Titans have only played two games where the temperature at kickoff is below 50-degrees: week 10 against the Ravens and week 13 against the Colts. The Titans have a record of 1-1 in those games, both of which took place at L.P. Field.

Titans defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch said that playing and practicing in cold weather in Nashville has prepared the team for the December conditions that await them in Buffalo.

''We've had some cold weather here,'' Vanden Bosch said. ''I think this team has shown the ability to go anywhere and play well. I think we are ready for it.''