load_espn_cfb_betting: *Load ESPN college football betting lines from the...

In cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

Load ESPN college football betting lines from the SportsDataverse data repo

Description

Loads season-level betting lines – long format, one row per book per selection per market type (spread, moneyline, total), with open/close prices. Published to the espn_cfb_betting release tag on the sportsdataverse-data repo.

Usage

load_espn_cfb_betting(
  seasons = most_recent_cfb_season(),
  ...,
  dbConnection = NULL,
  tablename = NULL
)

Arguments

seasons	A vector of 4-digit years associated with given college football seasons. Published coverage runs 2004 through the most recent season. Pass seasons = TRUE for every published season. (Min: 2004)
...	Additional arguments passed to an underlying function that writes the season data into a database.
dbConnection	A DBIConnection object, as returned by DBI::dbConnect()
tablename	The name of the data table within the database

Value

Returns a cfbfastR_data tibble.

col_name	types	description
game_id	integer
season	integer
week	integer
game_spread	double
over_under	double
home_favorite	logical
home_team_spread	double
game_spread_available	logical
odds_source	character

Author(s)

Saiem Gilani

Examples

  try(load_espn_cfb_betting(2004))

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