Get the index of poll / ranking sources ESPN publishes for a college football season – the AP Top 25, the Coaches Poll, the CFP committee rankings, and the computer-derived polls.
Value
A data frame with one row per ranking source:
| col_name | types | description |
| season | integer | Season (4-digit year). |
| ranking_id | character | ESPN ranking source id. |
| name | character | Ranking source name (e.g. AP Top 25). |
| short_name | character | Ranking source short name (e.g. AP Poll). |
| type | character | Ranking source type code (e.g. ap, cfp). |
| n_snapshots | integer | Number of weekly snapshots published by the source. |
| ranking_ref | character | $ref URL to the ranking source resource. |
Details
Wraps the ESPN core-v2 endpoint
sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons/{year}/rankings.
The index returns one $ref per ranking source (~6-7); this wrapper
dereferences each and returns one row per source, with a count of how
many weekly snapshots that source published in the season. To pull the
actual ranked teams for a given week, feed season, season_type, and
a week to espn_cfb_week_rankings().
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_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_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_rankings(year = 2024))
#> ── Ranking sources from ESPN ───────────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:57:03 UTC
#> # A tibble: 7 × 7
#> season ranking_id name short_name type n_snapshots ranking_ref
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <int> <chr>
#> 1 2024 21 Playoff Committee … CFP Ranki… cfp 6 http://spo…
#> 2 2024 22 College Football P… CFP Seedi… tour… 1 http://spo…
#> 3 2024 1 AP Top 25 AP Poll ap 17 http://spo…
#> 4 2024 2 AFCA Coaches Poll AFCA Coac… usa 17 http://spo…
#> 5 2024 20 FCS Coaches Poll FCS Coach… fcs 15 http://spo…
#> 6 2024 11 AFCA Division II C… AFCA Div … afca 13 http://spo…
#> 7 2024 12 AFCA Division III … AFCA Div … afca 13 http://spo…
# }