The University of Hawai'i has abandoned its quest for a 13th football opponent and will play a 12-game regular season in 2007, athletic director Herman Frazier announced yesterday.

Frazier said there were offers on the table to two teams, one of which is a member of a Bowl Championship Series conference, but none was accepted by yesterday's third — and final — drop-dead deadline.

"We've been working on it for so long," Frazier said. "I'm not going to wait any longer."

Frazier acknowledged the package to the BCS team was valued at about $700,000, and it included an appearance on an ESPN channel. He said the offers were made at the beginning of May.

"They've had some ample time to come forward," Frazier said. "I'm not into begging. I just had it."

Frazier declined to identify the two teams or their conference affiliations.

"I just can't do that," he said. "There could be some wounds there."

Frazier said he contacted 12 teams that were available for UH's open dates on Oct. 20 and Nov. 3. "Every single AD wanted to do it," Frazier said. "There was opposition in the ranks."

The Warriors are left with a 2007 schedule featuring two Division I-AA opponents.

"It's a little disappointing," safety Jacob Patek said. "Knowing all of the guys are competitive, we wanted that 13th game. We wanted to get a Michigan game to show what we've got. We've got to prepare for the season and the games ahead of us. We can't be wishing for anything else now."

Linebacker Solomon Elimimian said: "We wanted more games. We all did. It's not our fault a lot of teams don't want to play us. I can see why teams don't want to play us. We have a lot of great players, like Colt (Brennan), Davone (Bess) and Ryan (Grice-Mullins). We're all frustrated, but there's nothing we can do. If that's what we've got, that's what we've got. We'll try to win all 12."

Reach Stephen Tsai at stsai@honoluluadvertiser.com.