espn_cfb_franchises: *ESPN College Football Franchises Index*

In cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

ESPN College Football Franchises Index

Description

Get the catalog of college football franchises ESPN tracks – the stable program identities (~797) that underpin ESPN's team resources.

Usage

espn_cfb_franchises()

Details

Wraps the ESPN core-v2 endpoint sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/franchises. A franchise is the stable program identity, distinct from ⁠/teams⁠ (which is season-scoped). The index is ⁠$ref⁠-paginated and large (~797 franchises); dereferencing every franchise would be hundreds of HTTP calls, so this wrapper returns the lightweight index instead – one row per franchise with the franchise_id parsed from each ⁠$ref⁠. Pass an id to espn_cfb_franchise() to dereference the full detail record (slug, location, nickname, division, venue, colors, logos).

Value

A data frame with one row per franchise:

col_name	types	description
franchise_id	character	ESPN franchise id (parsed from franchise_ref).
franchise_ref	character	⁠$ref⁠ URL to the franchise detail resource.

See Also

Other ESPN CFB Functions: espn_cfb_award(), espn_cfb_awards(), espn_cfb_clear_cache(), espn_cfb_coach(), espn_cfb_coach_record(), espn_cfb_coaches(), espn_cfb_franchise(), espn_cfb_futures(), espn_cfb_game_broadcasts(), espn_cfb_game_drive_plays(), espn_cfb_game_drives(), espn_cfb_game_leaders(), espn_cfb_game_odds(), espn_cfb_game_pbp(), espn_cfb_game_play(), espn_cfb_game_player_box(), espn_cfb_game_player_statistics(), espn_cfb_game_powerindex(), espn_cfb_game_predictor(), espn_cfb_game_probabilities(), espn_cfb_game_situation(), espn_cfb_game_status(), espn_cfb_game_team_leaders(), espn_cfb_game_team_linescores(), espn_cfb_game_team_records(), espn_cfb_game_team_roster(), espn_cfb_game_team_statistics(), espn_cfb_game_teams(), espn_cfb_groups(), espn_cfb_pbp_v2(), espn_cfb_player(), espn_cfb_player_career_stats(), espn_cfb_player_eventlog(), espn_cfb_player_gamelog(), espn_cfb_player_overview(), espn_cfb_player_seasons(), espn_cfb_player_splits(), espn_cfb_player_stats_v3(), espn_cfb_players(), espn_cfb_position(), espn_cfb_positions(), espn_cfb_powerindex(), espn_cfb_qbr(), espn_cfb_rankings(), espn_cfb_recruits(), espn_cfb_season_info(), espn_cfb_season_types(), espn_cfb_season_weeks(), espn_cfb_seasons(), espn_cfb_standings(), espn_cfb_team(), espn_cfb_team_ats(), espn_cfb_team_awards(), espn_cfb_team_coaches(), espn_cfb_team_events(), espn_cfb_team_leaders(), espn_cfb_team_powerindex(), espn_cfb_team_ranks(), espn_cfb_team_record(), espn_cfb_team_roster(), espn_cfb_team_schedule(), espn_cfb_teams(), espn_cfb_unnest_plays(), espn_cfb_venue(), espn_cfb_venues(), espn_cfb_week_rankings()

Examples

  try(espn_cfb_franchises())

cfbfastR documentation built on Aug. 24, 2026, 5:13 p.m.