You're going to pay them. It may not be the full $1.1M, but it'll be something on top of travel expenses-One, you guys are so brilliant that you protected yourselves from Hurricanes (never seen one of those hit Nebraska), terrorism (how very Cold War of you), or the government taking over Memorial Stadium (for a Trump rally maybe?).........but there's nothing in that contract about tornadoes or thunderstorms. Two, the game started. Three, this makes you look really, really bad in the eyes of smaller schools. We all know you like to play two or three of those games a year-and a smaller school's AD is looking at this thinking "Well, they're trying to get out of paying Akron after that game kicked, whats to say they wouldn't do the same if we agreed to play them and the same thing happened? We'll go play Alabama or Texas instead." That's why Florida cut Northern Colorado their guarantee last year for a game that was cancelled before UNC got on a plane. That's why Iowa State paid South Dakota State for another game that the same weather system caused to be cancelled-you never, ever want to burn bridges with the Group of 5 and FCS schools in an era where records mean a lot more than SOS does.