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

Updated: July 10, 2025, 4:36pm CDT

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United Airlines Adds Flights for 2025 College Football Games
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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.

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)!