No word yet on who Nebraska's 12th regular-season game could be against, as hurricane worries this week are canceling more college football games across the country, deepening the pool of teams searching for scheduling fixes.

But Scott Frost seems to know when he wants it played, still in favor of Nebraska's make-up game coming against someone during the bye week on Oct. 27, as opposed to scheduling it the first week of December.

There's a statement to his team in his reason for that, too.

"I don't want to schedule a game for December because I think we're going to have a chance to be in the championship game," the Husker head coach said Thursday. "And scheduling a game in December, I don't want our kids thinking we're not going to be in the championship. We need to be in the Big Ten Championship game."

The Big Ten title game is in Indianapolis that first Saturday night in December, and Saturday's 33-28 season-opening loss to Colorado plays no factor in the race to get there. Nebraska starts with a clean slate in the league standings next Saturday when it heads to Michigan.

"So that leaves us October (27). It's not ideal to play 12 straight weeks. They don't even really do that in the NFL," Frost said. "But if that's the hand we're dealt, so be it. These kids have practiced hard enough and worked hard enough, they deserve to have a full slate of games, and 12 games. So administration is dealing with that. We'll play whoever they line up for us."

That could include either FBS or FCS competition, though FCS teams would need to get a waiver to play that extra game.

While Nebraska had its opener against Akron canceled due to thunderstorms, teams in other parts of the country are having games called off this weekend due to the approaching Hurricane Florence.

Among those teams that already have had its game canceled is Frost's old school, Central Florida, which had its contest at North Carolina wisely postponed with the storm expected to pummel the area.

Some imaginations have danced since UCF shares a bye week with Nebraska on Oct. 27, thinking that perhaps the Huskers could match up against Frost's old team.

Frost didn't completely slam the door on such an idea, but didn't seem too keen on it either, noting it also might not be a great setup for UCF, since it has a Thursday game just five days after that Saturday bye against Temple.

"We'll play whoever they get us to play," he said. "I know UCF doesn't have a true bye week. It has a short week the next week. The hardest part for me is if anyone from either team got hurt, or anything bad happened to any kid, I'd be broken-hearted. I still love those kids down there that are playing at UCF so much. Rooting for them. It would be a great game.

"I think it would be an evenly-matched game of two really good teams. But personally, I'd cringe a little when our defensive end hit their quarterback. And that's not how you want to go into a game."