ESPN College Football Award Detail

Get the ESPN core-v2 detail record for a single college football award in a given season – name, description, history, and the athlete (and team) that won it.

Usage

espn_cfb_award(award_id = NULL, year = NULL, team_detail = TRUE)

Arguments

award_id

(Integer required): ESPN award id.

year

(Integer required): Season, 4 digit format (YYYY).

team_detail

(Logical): when TRUE (default), the ESPN team catalog (espn_cfb_teams()) is fetched once and friendly team fields are joined in next to the team_id column. The sibling columns team_name, team_abbreviation, team_location, team_display_name, team_short_display_name, team_nickname, team_color, team_alternate_color, team_logo_href, team_logo_dark_href are inserted immediately after team_id. A catalog failure degrades to NA rather than erroring the wrapper. Set FALSE to skip the catalog fetch and the join, reproducing the prior output exactly.

Value

A data frame with one row per award-winner:

col_name	types	description
season	integer	Season (4-digit year) queried.
award_id	character	ESPN award id.
name	character	Award name (e.g. Buck Buchanan Award).
description	character	ESPN's short description of the award.
history	character	ESPN's long-form history text for the award.
athlete_id	character	ESPN id of the winning athlete (parsed from athlete_ref); NA if none.
team_id	character	ESPN id of the winner's team (parsed from team_ref); NA if none.
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.
award_ref	character	$ref URL to the award resource.
athlete_ref	character	$ref URL to the winning athlete resource (may be NA).
team_ref	character	$ref URL to the winner's team resource (may be NA).

Details

Wraps the ESPN core-v2 endpoint sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons/{year}/awards/{award_id}. espn_cfb_awards() returns the season award index; this wrapper returns the single-award detail (including the long-form history text) for one id. Returns one row per (award x winner) – most awards have a single winner, so the table is typically one row. An award with no winner recorded yet still contributes one row with athlete_id/team_id left NA. Winners are returned as ESPN athlete and team ids only – join to an athlete source for names. Enumerate award_ids with espn_cfb_awards().

See also

Other ESPN CFB Functions: 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(), espn_cfb_week_rankings()

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(espn_cfb_award(award_id = 1, year = 2024))
#> ── Award detail from ESPN ──────────────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:55:31 UTC
#> # A tibble: 1 × 20
#>   season award_id name          description history athlete_id team_id team_name
#>    <int> <chr>    <chr>         <chr>       <chr>   <chr>      <chr>   <chr>    
#> 1   2024 1        Buck Buchana… I-AA Defen… "The S… 5085355    2110    Bears    
#> # ℹ 12 more variables: team_abbreviation <chr>, team_location <chr>,
#> #   team_display_name <chr>, team_short_display_name <chr>,
#> #   team_nickname <chr>, team_color <chr>, team_alternate_color <chr>,
#> #   team_logo_href <chr>, team_logo_dark_href <chr>, award_ref <chr>,
#> #   athlete_ref <chr>, team_ref <chr>
  try(espn_cfb_award(award_id = 1, year = 2024, team_detail = FALSE))
#> ── Award detail from ESPN ──────────────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:55:31 UTC
#> # A tibble: 1 × 10
#>   season award_id name          description history athlete_id team_id award_ref
#>    <int> <chr>    <chr>         <chr>       <chr>   <chr>      <chr>   <chr>    
#> 1   2024 1        Buck Buchana… I-AA Defen… "The S… 5085355    2110    http://s…
#> # ℹ 2 more variables: athlete_ref <chr>, team_ref <chr>
# }