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Get college football conference information Pulls all college football conferences and returns as data frame

Usage

cfbd_conferences(year = NULL, division = NULL)

Arguments

year

(Integer optional): Season filter, 4 digits (YYYY).
Minimum value accepted: 1869

division

(String optional): Division/classification filter – one of fbs, fcs, ii, ii/iii, iii. Sent to CFBD as classification.

Value

cfbd_conferences() - A data frame with 94 rows and 5 variables:

col_nametypesdescription
conference_idintegerReferencing conference id.
namecharacterConference name.
long_namecharacterLong name for Conference.
abbreviationcharacterConference abbreviation.
classificationcharacterConference classification (fbs, fcs, ii, iii).

Details

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See also

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(cfbd_conferences())
#> ── Conference data from CollegeFootballData.com ────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#>  Data updated: 2026-08-19 17:52:08 UTC
#> # A tibble: 256 × 6
#>    conference_id name         long_name abbreviation classification member_count
#>            <int> <chr>        <chr>     <chr>        <chr>                 <int>
#>  1           213 AAWU         Athletic… AAWU         fbs                       0
#>  2             1 ACC          Atlantic… ACC          fbs                      17
#>  3           151 American At… American… AAC          fbs                      14
#>  4           114 American Ri… American… NA           iii                       8
#>  5           100 American So… American… NA           iii                       6
#>  6           302 American We… American… AWC          ii                        0
#>  7           224 American We… American… AWC          fcs                       0
#>  8           225 Arkansas In… Arkansas… AIC          ii                        0
#>  9           226 Athletic Le… Athletic… NA           ii/iii                    0
#> 10            19 Atlantic 10  Atlantic… A10          fcs                       0
#> # ℹ 246 more rows
# }