CIA Chief Heinous Overreach sends pilot John Goldfarb on a U-2 flight over the Soviet Union, in opposition to Secretary of Defense Maginot, who points out that "Wrong-Way" Goldfarb once ran a touchdown in the wrong direction in a college football game. Jenny Ericson, a Strife magazine photographer, is headed for Fawzia, an Arab kingdom, where she plans to smuggle herself into the harem of the wealthy King Fawz in order to write a story about him. Fawz is furious because his son, Prince Ammud, has returned from Notre Dame with word that he did not make the football team. The king orders a football field built for Ammud and suspends relations with the United States, thus upsetting U. S. plans to build a military base in Fawzia. Flying toward the U.S.S.R., Goldfarb is forced by mechanical troubles to crashland in Fawzia. Fawz recognizes him as the football star and gives him the choice of being turned over to the Soviets as a spy or coaching the Fawz University football team. When Goldfarb's coaching duties depress him, Fawz offers him the pick of the harem. Jenny implores him to pick her to save her from Fawz; both confess their identities and soon fall in love. Fawz tells Ambassador Brinkley that the United States can have its base if it will send a team to play Fawz U. America dispatches the Notre Dame team with instructions to lose, but Notre Dame refuses. In the game's final moments, however, Jenny carries the ball, and because the gentlemanly Americans will not tackle her, Fawz U. wins.