Get the awards won by a college football team's players in a season – one row per (award x winning athlete).
Arguments
- team_id
(Integer required): ESPN team id.
- year
(Integer required): Season, 4 digit format (YYYY).
- team_detail
(Logical): when
TRUE(default), fetch the ESPN team catalog once and join friendly team fields next to every team-id column (team_id,winner_team_id) in the output (see Details). SetFALSEto skip the catalog fetch and the join.
Value
A data frame with one row per award-winner:
| col_name | types | description |
| season | integer | Season (4-digit year). |
| team_id | character | ESPN team id. |
| 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_id | character | ESPN award id. |
| award_name | character | Award display name (e.g. John Mackey Award). |
| award_description | character | Short description of the award. |
| athlete_id | character | ESPN athlete id of the winner (parsed from athlete_ref). |
| winner_team_id | character | ESPN team id credited with the win (parsed from winner_team_ref). |
| winner_team_name | character | Winner team nickname; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| winner_team_abbreviation | character | Winner team abbreviation; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| winner_team_location | character | Winner team location / school; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| winner_team_display_name | character | Winner team full display name; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| winner_team_short_display_name | character | Winner team short display name; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| winner_team_nickname | character | Winner team nickname label; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| winner_team_color | character | Winner team primary color; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| winner_team_alternate_color | character | Winner team alternate color; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| winner_team_logo_href | character | Winner team default logo URL; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| winner_team_logo_dark_href | character | Winner team dark logo URL; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| award_ref | character | $ref URL to the core-v2 award resource. |
| athlete_ref | character | $ref URL to the winning athlete-in-season resource. |
| winner_team_ref | character | $ref URL to the winner's team-in-season resource. |
Details
Wraps the ESPN core-v2 team awards endpoint
sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons/{year}/teams/{team_id}/awards.
The index endpoint returns a $ref list of award resources; this wrapper
dereferences each one and returns a row per winning athlete for the
award. Athletes are returned as ESPN athlete ids (parsed from
athlete_ref); join to another athlete source for names. Most teams have
only one or two award items in a season.
When team_detail = TRUE (the default) the ESPN team catalog
(espn_cfb_teams()) is fetched once and friendly team fields are joined
onto every team-id column the output carries – team_id and
winner_team_id. For each id column X_id the friendly siblings
X_name, X_abbreviation, X_location, X_display_name,
X_short_display_name, X_nickname, X_color, X_alternate_color,
X_logo_href, and X_logo_dark_href are inserted immediately after it.
A catalog failure degrades to NA rather than erroring the wrapper. Set
team_detail = FALSE to skip the catalog fetch and the join.
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_seasons(),
espn_cfb_standings(),
espn_cfb_team(),
espn_cfb_team_ats(),
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_team_awards(team_id = 61, year = 2023))
#> ── Team awards from ESPN ───────────────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:57:55 UTC
#> # A tibble: 2 × 30
#> season team_id team_name team_abbreviation team_location team_display_name
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2023 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 2 2023 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> # ℹ 24 more variables: 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_id <chr>, award_name <chr>,
#> # award_description <chr>, athlete_id <chr>, winner_team_id <chr>,
#> # winner_team_name <chr>, winner_team_abbreviation <chr>,
#> # winner_team_location <chr>, winner_team_display_name <chr>,
#> # winner_team_short_display_name <chr>, winner_team_nickname <chr>, …
try(espn_cfb_team_awards(team_id = 61, year = 2023,
team_detail = FALSE))
#> ── Team awards from ESPN ───────────────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:57:55 UTC
#> # A tibble: 2 × 10
#> season team_id award_id award_name award_description athlete_id winner_team_id
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2023 61 11 John Mack… Outstanding Tigh… 4432665 61
#> 2 2023 61 158 Wuerffel … Top Community Se… 4612826 61
#> # ℹ 3 more variables: award_ref <chr>, athlete_ref <chr>, winner_team_ref <chr>
# }