NFL + College Football Weekends 2026: 39 Stacks Still Ahead

College football often gives you Saturday; the NFL often gives you Sunday. The September 19-20 Los Angeles pairing follows that pattern exactly: UCLA lists an 8 p.m. Pacific kickoff against Purdue, and the Chargers list a 1:05 p.m. Pacific kickoff against the Raiders. Check the UCLA schedule and Chargers schedule.

Those are separate days and separate venues. The Rose Bowl is in Pasadena; SoFi is in Inglewood. Plan each stadium journey from your hotel, with Sunday night's room included in the opening estimate. The trip does not require racing between games on the same afternoon.

Follow the Chargers team page if the NFL matchup decides your destination. Use Los Angeles lodging once both game dates work.

Choose a city to see its full 2026 inventory, exact matchups and available itinerary. Some early inventory falls before the NFL regular season or has incomplete ticket availability. Read the event labels before treating it as a regular-season trip.

College tickets and NFL tickets are separate purchases. A schedule row is evidence that the dates line up, not a guarantee that every listed ticket is available.

The remaining column begins September 18, so it excludes the weekend already underway when this guide was updated. Use it to distinguish a future option from a full-season count.

Start with the game you would travel for on its own. If that is your NFL team's road game, the college fixture is the second decision. If the college rivalry is the draw, work in the opposite order. Either way, a shared metro gives you an option; it does not settle kickoff times or hotel location.

College kickoff times marked TBA can change how much of Saturday remains free. NFL games can also move under flexible scheduling rules. Keep a flexible departure until the important dates and times are settled.

For the September 18-20 Los Angeles option, the Dodgers are also home Friday. The NFL + MLB guide gives you that alternative, and the Chargers-Dodgers pair page covers the two pro venues. The three-league guide loads the Friday-Saturday-Sunday version.

The selector keeps the complete inventory together. If a metro has two college games on the same Saturday, it can include both. Choose the one you can attend; the city-weekend still counts only once.

Pittsburgh and Minneapolis are useful places to compare a college companion with hockey later in the fall. The NFL + NHL guide covers that switch, and the NFL + NBA guide covers basketball as the college calendar winds down.

Reproduced September 12, 2026 from the same schedule rules as the selector. The inclusive event window is August 28-December 13, with Friday keys through December 11. The full comparison has 46 unique metro-weekends across 17 metros; 39 start September 18 or later. Counts cover mapped college programs and schedule overlap, including flagged exhibitions where present, rather than guaranteed ticket inventory. Two college games in one metro-weekend do not create two stacks. The opening estimate uses the current trip calculator for two travelers and two hotel nights; flights, food and local transport are additional.

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