"During the week and even on Saturday, we thought we had a three-hour window to get the game in," said Burton, who is athletic director Bill Moos' chief of staff and his liaison to the football department. "There was a bigger cell behind it, and we didn't know that that thing was going to stall out the way it did."
Weather models also showed a window between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Sunday. Husker officials wanted to explore moving the game to there, but Akron athletic director Larry Williams told Moos that his school could not make that work.