For a million bucks — or a return game in Aloha Stadium — the University of Hawaii said it will consider sending its football team into any of the most inhospitable environments in college football in 2012.

In an effort to fill out a 2012 schedule that was left with a late-season puka by the cancellation of Texas State last month, athletic director Jim Donovan said he will consider playing most anywhere.

"Playing a money game isn’t our first choice, but it is something that we would look at very closely," Donovan said. "We’re calling anybody out there with an opening."

UH’s biggest road payday was $600,000 for a 56-10 loss at Florida in 2008. Some teams are currently getting as much as $1.2 million for road games at traditional powers.

Donovan said UH would prefer a Football Bowl Subdivision opponent at Aloha Stadium — and has talked to at least five since the Texas State cancellation — but might have to look at other options. Alternatives include going on the road for a so-called guarantee game, adding an additional Football Championship Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-AA) opponent or playing just a 12-game schedule.

Playing another road game in 2012, UH’s first in the Mountain West Conference, would give it seven, a school record, against six home games and toughen up a schedule that already sends the Warriors to USC, Brigham Young, Air Force, Colorado State, Fresno State and San Diego State.

The million-dollar price tag comes about because money will be a concern in 2012 since UH must underwrite travel by visiting teams from the MWC and Big West as a condition of conference membership. UH estimates it will have to pay about $1.2 million in subsidies. UH is responsible for its own expenses when it plays on the road in conference games.

As such UH could ill-afford not to schedule a 13th game in 2012 but is concerned that a second FCS opponent (it already has Lamar) would be a tough sell to ticket buyers. In addition, FBS teams may count only one victory against an FCS opponent for bowl-eligibility purposes.