espn_cfb_week_rankings: *ESPN College Football Weekly Rankings*

In cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

ESPN College Football Weekly Rankings

Description

Get the ranked teams from every poll ESPN published in a single week of a college football season – the AP Top 25, the Coaches Poll, the CFP committee rankings, and the computer polls, with each team's rank, points, and first-place votes.

Usage

espn_cfb_week_rankings(
  year = NULL,
  week = NULL,
  season_type = 2,
  team_detail = TRUE
)

Arguments

year	(Integer required): Season, 4 digit format (YYYY). Minimum value accepted: 2002
week	(Integer required): Week number within the season type.
season_type	(Integer default 2): ESPN season type id. 2 = regular season, 3 = postseason.
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 endpoint sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons/{year}/types/{season_type}/weeks/{week}/rankings. The week index returns one ⁠$ref⁠ per poll; this wrapper dereferences each poll and returns one row per (poll x ranked team). Both the top-25 ranked teams (rank_type = "ranked") and the receiving-votes teams ESPN lists below the cutoff (rank_type = "others") are included.

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; teams are then returned as ESPN team ids only.

Value

A data frame with one row per poll-team:

col_name	types	description
season	integer	Season (4-digit year).
season_type	integer	ESPN season type id queried.
week	integer	Week number queried.
ranking_id	character	ESPN poll id.
ranking_name	character	Poll name (e.g. ⁠AP Top 25⁠).
ranking_type	character	Poll type code (e.g. ap, coaches, cfp).
occurrence	character	Poll occurrence label (e.g. ⁠Week 8⁠, Preseason).
rank_type	character	ranked for ranked teams, others for receiving-votes teams.
current_rank	integer	Current rank (0 for receiving-votes teams).
previous_rank	integer	Rank in the previous poll (0 if unranked).
points	numeric	Poll points awarded to the team.
first_place_votes	integer	Number of first-place votes received.
trend	character	Movement vs the previous poll (e.g. -, +3).
record_summary	character	Team record at the time of the poll (e.g. 7-1).
team_id	character	ESPN team id (parsed from team_ref).
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.
team_ref	character	⁠$ref⁠ URL to the per-season team 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_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_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()

Examples

  try(espn_cfb_week_rankings(year = 2024, week = 8))
  try(espn_cfb_week_rankings(year = 2024, week = 8, team_detail = FALSE))

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