Get the index of every college football season ESPN tracks in its core-v2 API, with each season's start and end dates.
Value
A data frame with one row per season:
| col_name | types | description |
| season | integer | Season (4-digit year). |
| display_name | character | ESPN display name for the season. |
| start_date | character | Season start timestamp (ISO 8601, UTC). |
| end_date | character | Season end timestamp (ISO 8601, UTC). |
| season_ref | character | $ref URL to the season resource. |
Details
Wraps the ESPN core-v2 endpoint
sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons.
The index is $ref-paginated; this wrapper walks every page, dereferences
each season $ref, and returns one row per season. ESPN's CFB season
coverage runs back to the early 1900s, so the table is long – filter on
season for the years you need. Use espn_cfb_season_info() for the
full per-season detail (season types, rankings, awards, futures refs).
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_rankings(),
espn_cfb_recruits(),
espn_cfb_season_info(),
espn_cfb_season_types(),
espn_cfb_season_weeks(),
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_seasons())
#> ── Seasons index from ESPN ─────────────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:57:11 UTC
#> # A tibble: 155 × 5
#> season display_name start_date end_date season_ref
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2026 2026 2026-02-01T08:00Z 2027-01-28T07:59Z http://sports.core.a…
#> 2 2025 2025 2025-02-01T08:00Z 2026-01-21T07:59Z http://sports.core.a…
#> 3 2024 2024 2024-07-01T07:00Z 2025-01-22T07:59Z http://sports.core.a…
#> 4 2023 2023 2023-07-01T07:00Z 2024-01-10T07:59Z http://sports.core.a…
#> 5 2022 2022 2022-07-01T07:00Z 2023-01-11T07:59Z http://sports.core.a…
#> 6 2021 2021 2021-07-01T07:00Z 2022-01-12T07:59Z http://sports.core.a…
#> 7 2020 2020 2020-08-01T07:00Z 2021-01-31T07:59Z http://sports.core.a…
#> 8 2019 2019 2019-07-01T07:00Z 2020-01-15T07:59Z http://sports.core.a…
#> 9 2018 2018 2018-07-01T07:00Z 2019-01-16T07:59Z http://sports.core.a…
#> 10 2017 2017 2017-07-01T07:00Z 2018-01-17T07:59Z http://sports.core.a…
#> # ℹ 145 more rows
# }