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Good news for football fans hoping to travel to their favorite gridiron this fall: Delta Air Lines is launching its largest-ever college football flights schedule, with more than 40 additional flights to transport football fans to the next big game.
The expansion adds a total of about 8,000 new seats to smaller regional airports. A total of 25 college towns will be served under the new flight expansion—like South Bend, Indiana, which is home to Notre Dame; Columbus, Ohio, where Ohio State is located; and Gainesville, Florida, home to the University of Florida.
The new Delta college football flights are built around some of the season’s most anticipated games, according to the airline. Service begins at the end of August and stretches through football season until the end of November. Flights will be operated by a mix of mainline Delta service and Delta Connection.
“College football is one of the great American traditions, and Delta is excited to help bring even more fans to the games that matter to them the most,” said Amy Martin, Delta’s vice president of North America network planning.
Key highlights:
- Delta’s college football capacity adds are tailored to game-day weekends for easy out-and-back trips. Most of these flights will operate on Fridays and will return on Sundays.
- 25 cities will be receiving additional service throughout the season including South Bend (SBN), Columbus (CMH), Austin (AUS), Knoxville (TYS), Gainesville (GNV) and many more.
- Additional service will operate on a mix of both mainline Delta flights and Delta Connection flights.
These added flights are in addition to Delta’s regularly scheduled operation that is well equipped to get customers to key rivalries, conference match ups and other big games with either a direct flight or with less than one layover.
A full list of Delta’s schedule increase can be viewed below:
| | Game | Date of Game | Special Section | Mainline or Delta Connection |
| AUG | LSU at Clemson | 8/30/2025 | Baton Rouge (BTR) – Greenville (GSP) | DC |
| Texas at Ohio State | 8/30/2025 | Austin (AUS)- Columbus (CMH) | ML | |
| SEP | ND Home Game – TX A&M | 9/13/2025 | LaGuardia (LGA) – South Bend (SBN) | DC |
| ND Home Game – TX A&M | 9/13/2025 | Washington (DCA) – South Bend (SBN) | DC | |
| Wisconsin at Alabama | 9/13/2025 | Birmingham (BHM) – Madison (MSN) | ML | |
| ND Home Game – Purdue | 9/20/2025 | LaGuardia (LGA) – South Bend (SBN) | DC | |
| ND Home Game – Purdue | 9/20/2025 | Washington (DCA) – South Bend (SBN) | DC | |
| Notre Dame at Arkansas | 9/27/2025 | South Bend (SBN) – Northwest Arkansas (XNA) | DC | |
| OCT | Texas at Florida | 10/4/2025 | Austin (AUS) – Gainesville (GNV) | DC |
| South Carolina at LSU | 10/11/2025 | Baton Rouge (BTR) – Columbia (CAE) | DC | |
| Univ of Michigan at USC | 10/11/2025 | Detroit (DTW) – Los Angeles (LAX) | ML | |
| Clemson at BC | 10/11/2025 | Boston (BOS) – Greenville (GSP) | DC | |
| NC State at Notre Dame | 10/11/2025 | Raleigh-Durham (RDU) – South Bend (SBN) | DC | |
| BYU at Arizona | 10/11/2025 | Salt Lake City (SLC) – Tucson (TUS) | DC | |
| ND Home Game – NC State | 10/11/2025 | Washington (DCA) – South Bend (SBN) | DC | |
| ND Home Game – NC State | 10/11/2025 | LaGuardia (LGA) – South Bend (SBN) | DC | |
| LSU at Vanderbilt | 10/18/2025 | Nashville (BNA) – Baton Rouge (BTR) | DC | |
| Oklahoma at South Car | 10/18/2025 | Columbia (CAE) – Oklahoma City (OKC) | DC | |
| Texas at Kentucky | 10/18/2025 | Austin (AUS) – Lexington (LEX) | DC | |
| Washington at Univ of Michigan | 10/18/2025 | Seattle (SEA) – Detroit (DTW) | ML | |
| ND Home Game – USC | 10/18/2025 | LaGuardia (LGA) – South Bend (SBN) | DC | |
| ND Home Game – USC | 10/18/2025 | Washington (DCA) – South Bend (SBN) | DC | |
| Tennessee at Alabama | 10/18/2025 | Knoxville (TYS) – Birmingham (BHM) | DC | |
| Wisconsin at Oregon | 10/25/2025 | Madison (MSN) – Portland (PDX) | ML | |
| NOV | Oklahoma at Tennessee | 11/1/2025 | Oklahoma City (OKC) – Knoxville (TYS) | DC |
| Michigan State at Minnesota | 11/1/2025 | Lansing (LAN) – Minneapolis (MSP) | DC | |
| South Carolina at Ole Miss | 11/1/2025 | Columbia (CAE) – Memphis (MEM) | DC | |
| Oregon at Iowa | 11/8/2025 | Eastern Iowa (CID) – Portland (PDX) | ML | |
| Washington at Wisconsin | 11/8/2025 | Madison (MSN) – Seattle (SEA) | ML | |
| ND Home Game – Navy | 11/8/2025 | LaGuardia (LGA) – South Bend (SBN) | DC | |
| ND Home Game – Navy | 11/8/2025 | Washington (DCA) – South Bend (SBN) | DC | |
| Oklahoma at Alabama | 11/15/2025 | Oklahoma City (OKC) – Birmingham (BHM) | DC | |
| UCLA at Ohio State | 11/15/2025 | Columbus (CMH) – Los Angeles (LAX) | ML | |
| Iowa at USC | 11/15/2025 | Eastern Iowa (CID) – Los Angeles (LAX) | ML | |
| Arkansas at Texas | 11/22/2025 | Austin (AUS) – Northwest Arkansas (XNA) | DC | |
| Tennessee at Florida | 11/22/2025 | Knoxville (TYS) – Gainesville (GNV) | DC | |
| Syracuse at Notre Dame | 11/22/2025 | South Bend (SBN) – Syracuse (SYR) | DC | |
| USC at Oregon | 11/22/2025 | Los Angeles (LAX) – Eugene (EUG) | DC | |
| ND Home Game – Syracuse | 11/22/2025 | LaGuardia (LGA) – South Bend (SBN) | DC | |
| ND Home Game – Syracuse | 11/22/2025 | Washington (DCA) – South Bend (SBN) | DC | |
| Michigan State at Iowa | 11/22/2025 | Eastern Iowa (CID) – Detroit (DTW) | DC | |
| LSU at Oklahoma | 11/29/2025 | Baton Rouge (BTR) – Oklahoma City (OKC) | DC |
Delta full college football flights schedule listed above is also available on its website.
This article originally appeared in TravelPulse.
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