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United Adds Dozens of Flights Around Key College Football Games This Fall

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Timeless fall traditions include apple cider, carving pumpkins, and United Airlines adding flights to help you follow your favorite college football team for marquee matchups.

This year, the airline is adding flights and offering nearly 3,500 extra seats to help fans get to 24 different games. This has clearly become an annual trend with United, and it’s using bigger planes this year to enable even more fans to hit the road with their team.

Tickets will go on sale tonight, so let’s check out the details to help you prepare.

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United Airlines Adds Flights for 2025 College Football Games

Fans from the Big Ten, SEC, Mountain West, and Notre Dame will be excited about the ease of following their teams to big-time games this fall. United Airlines will crisscross the country to support key matchups for teams like Texas, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Alabama, and more.

This will be done with a combination of new routes — the majority — and also flying bigger planes on a handful of existing routes.

United Airlines College Football Route Map 2025
Route map for this year’s college football flights. Image Credit: United Airlines

Here are the routes and dates, as well as flight numbers, for United’s new flights this year, including the game they will support:

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Flight Date

Matchup

Route

Flight Number(s)

August 29

Texas at Ohio State

Austin, Texas (AUS) to Columbus, Ohio (CMH)

UA2232

September 12

Texas A&M at Notre Dame

  • Houston, Texas (IAH) to South Bend, Indiana (SBN)
  • Newark (EWR) to South Bend, Indiana (SBN)
  • UA5637
  • UA1887

September 12

Wisconsin at Alabama

Madison, Wisconsin (MSN) to Birmingham, Alabama (BHM)

UA5626

September 19

Purdue at Notre Dame

Newark (EWR) to South Bend, Indiana (SBN)

UA1887

September 19

Michigan at Nebraska

Detroit (DTW) to Lincoln, Nebraska (LNK)

UA5615

September 26

Notre Dame at Arkansas

Newark (EWR) to Bentonville, Arkansas (XNA)

UA3670

September 26

Ohio State at Washington

Columbus, Ohio (CMH) to Seattle (SEA)

UA1012

October 3

Boise State at Notre Dame

  • Boise, Idaho (BOI) to South Bend, Indiana (SBN)
  • Newark (EWR) to South Bend, Indiana (SBN)
  • UA5252
  • UA1887

October 10

NC State at Notre Dame

Newark (EWR) to South Bend, Indiana (SBN)

UA1887

October 17

USC at Notre Dame

  • Los Angeles (LAX) to South Bend, Indiana (SBN)
  • Newark (EWR) to South Bend, Indiana (SBN)
  • UA1055
  • UA1887

October 17

Tennessee at Alabama

Knoxville, Tennessee (TYS) to Birmingham, Alabama (BHM)

UA5607

October 17

Ohio State at Wisconsin

Columbus, Ohio (CMH) to Madison, Wisconsin (MSN)

UA2228

October 24

Wisconsin at Oregon

Madison, Wisconsin (MSN) to Eugene, Oregon (EUG)

UA1282

October 31

Oklahoma at Tennessee

Oklahoma City (OKC) to Knoxville, Tennesee (TYS)

UA5765

October 31

Penn State at Ohio State

State College, Pennsylvania (SCE) to Columbus, Ohio (CMH)

UA4566

November 7

LSU at Alabama

Baton Route, Louisiana (BTR) to Birmingham, Alabama (BHM)

UA6289

November 7

Navy at Notre Dame

Newark (EWR) to South Bend, Indiana (SBN)

UA1887

November 14

Arkansas at LSU

Bentonville, Arkansas (XNA) to Baton Rouge, Louisiana (BTR)

UA6315

November 21

Syracuse at Notre Dame

Syracuse, New York (SYR) to South Bend, Indiana (SBN)

UA1887

November 21

Arkansas at Texas

Bentonville, Arkansas (XNA) to Austin, Texas (AUS)

UA5994

It’s not just new flights that United is adding, either. On 3 routes, United will fly bigger planes to support the number of fans it expects on particular routes:

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Flight Date

Matchup

Route

Flight Number(s)

October 17

Texas A&M at Arkansas

Houston (IAH) to Bentonville, Arkansas (XNA)

UA1485 and UA1640

October 31

Notre Dame at Boston College

Newark (EWR) to Boston (BOS)

UA593, UA577, and UA2630

November 14

Notre Dame at Pitt

Newark (EWER) to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PIT)

UA1268, UA283, and UA773

Tickets for these flights will go on sale tonight, July 10, 2025. Since they’re not on sale yet, we don’t know what pricing will look like.

Hot Tip:

If the price of these flights looks expensive once they go on sale, using miles can help you save money. Learn about the United Airlines MileagePlus program to understand how to redeem miles for flights.

Final Thoughts

United is making this an annual tradition, adding flights to support key college football games each fall. This year, the airline is even boosting capacity on existing routes by flying bigger planes to support the number of fans who will want to follow a certain away game for their team.

This year’s college football season starts with a bang, with Texas visiting Ohio State in a rematch of last year’s semifinal, but there are huge matchups running from August 29 to November 21 that United will help you follow.

Go (insert your favorite team here)!

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