Get the current (or final) game situation for a single
college football game – down, distance, yard line, red-zone flag,
timeouts, and a $ref to the last play.
Value
A data frame with one row describing the game situation:
| col_name | types | description |
| game_id | character | ESPN game identifier. |
| down | integer | Current down. |
| distance | integer | Yards to go for a first down. |
| yard_line | integer | Current yard line. |
| is_red_zone | logical | TRUE if the offense is in the red zone. |
| home_timeouts | integer | Home-team timeouts remaining. |
| away_timeouts | integer | Away-team timeouts remaining. |
| last_play_id | character | ESPN play id of the last play (parsed from last_play_ref). |
| situation_ref | character | $ref URL to the situation resource itself. |
| last_play_ref | character | $ref URL to the last-play resource. |
Details
Wraps the ESPN core-v2 endpoint
events/{game_id}/competitions/{game_id}/situation. The competition id
always equals the game id. Returns a single-row data frame describing the
live game situation. For an in-progress game this is the current state;
for a completed game it is static – the final play state. The
last_play_ref column is the $ref URL to the last play; parse its id
and pass it to espn_cfb_game_play() for the full play detail.
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_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_game_situation(game_id = 401628339))
#> ── Game situation data from ESPN ───────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:56:30 UTC
#> # A tibble: 1 × 10
#> game_id down distance yard_line is_red_zone home_timeouts away_timeouts
#> <chr> <int> <int> <int> <lgl> <int> <int>
#> 1 401628339 0 0 65 FALSE 3 3
#> # ℹ 3 more variables: last_play_id <chr>, situation_ref <chr>,
#> # last_play_ref <chr>
# }