Earlier Sunday, the Nebraska football team and the athletic program released a statement attempting to explain why Saturday’s game couldn’t be played. Unsurprisingly, the statement claimed the Huskers were ready and willing to make it work and the Zips were the ones who backed out.
On Sunday evening, Akron released its own version of events and … basically confirmed what Nebraska had been saying. Athletic director Larry Williams released a statement that included talk about the inability to secure accommodation in and around Lincoln.
Williams added that the only accommodations they would have been able to get would have split the team up.