espn_cfb_team_ranks: *ESPN College Football Team Poll Rank History*

In cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

ESPN College Football Team Poll Rank History

Description

Get a college football team's poll-rank history for a season – one row per poll (AP, Coaches, CFP Committee, ...) the team appeared in, with current/previous rank, trend, and record.

Usage

espn_cfb_team_ranks(
  team_id = NULL,
  year = NULL,
  week = NULL,
  team_detail = TRUE
)

Arguments

team_id	(Integer required): ESPN team id.
year	(Integer required): Season, 4 digit format (YYYY). Minimum value accepted: 2000
week	(Integer optional): Regular-season week. When supplied, the team's rank at that specific week is returned.
team_detail	(Logical): when TRUE (default), fetch the ESPN team catalog once and join friendly team fields next to the team_id column (see Details). Set FALSE to skip the catalog fetch and the join.

Details

Wraps the ESPN core-v2 team ranks endpoint sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons/{year}/teams/{team_id}/ranks. When a week is supplied the week-resolved variant is used instead: sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons/{year}/types/2/weeks/{week}/teams/{team_id}/ranks. The index endpoint returns a ⁠$ref⁠ list of poll-rank resources; this wrapper dereferences each one and returns a single row per poll with the rank detail flattened. Without a week, ESPN returns the season's final poll positions (one row per poll, plus postseason polls).

When team_detail = TRUE (the default) the ESPN team catalog (espn_cfb_teams()) is fetched once and friendly team fields are joined in next to the team_id column – team_name, team_abbreviation, team_location, team_display_name, team_short_display_name, team_nickname, team_color, team_alternate_color, team_logo_href, and team_logo_dark_href, inserted immediately after team_id. A catalog failure degrades to NA rather than erroring the wrapper. Set team_detail = FALSE to skip the catalog fetch and the join.

Value

A data frame with one row per poll-rank:

col_name	types	description
season	integer	Season (4-digit year).
team_id	character	ESPN team id.
team_name	character	Team nickname; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_abbreviation	character	Team abbreviation; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_location	character	Team location / school name; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_display_name	character	Full team display name; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_short_display_name	character	Short team display name; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_nickname	character	Team nickname label; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_color	character	Primary team color; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_alternate_color	character	Alternate team color; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_logo_href	character	Default team logo URL; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_logo_dark_href	character	Dark-variant team logo URL; team_detail = TRUE only.
week	integer	Week of the rank occurrence.
poll_id	character	ESPN poll id (e.g. 21 = CFP Committee Rankings).
poll_name	character	Poll display name.
poll_short_name	character	Poll short name.
poll_type	character	Poll type code (e.g. cfp, ap, usa).
headline	character	Headline ESPN attaches to the poll release.
date	character	Date of the poll release.
current_rank	integer	Team's rank in this poll.
previous_rank	integer	Team's rank in the prior release of this poll.
trend	character	Rank movement string (e.g. +3, -1).
points	numeric	Voting points the team received.
first_place_votes	integer	First-place votes the team received.
record_summary	character	Team's win-loss record at the time of the poll.

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_franchises(), 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_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_team_ranks(team_id = 61, year = 2024))
  try(espn_cfb_team_ranks(team_id = 61, year = 2024,
                          team_detail = FALSE))

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