load_espn_cfb_schedules: *Load ESPN college football schedules from the...

In cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

Load ESPN college football schedules from the SportsDataverse data repo

Description

Loads season-level college football schedules built from the ESPN events API by the cfbfastR-cfb-data pipeline. One row per game with date/venue/broadcast metadata, team ids and names, scores, and status fields. Published to the espn_cfb_schedules release tag on the sportsdataverse-data repo.

Usage

load_espn_cfb_schedules(
  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
season_type	integer
game_date	character
neutral_site	logical
conference_competition	logical
home_id	integer
away_id	integer
home_team	character
away_team	character
home_abbreviation	character
away_abbreviation	character
home_score	character
away_score	character
home_winner	logical
away_winner	logical
venue	character
attendance	character
status	character

Author(s)

Saiem Gilani

Examples

  try(load_espn_cfb_schedules(2004))

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