Get a college football team's full season event log – every game (regular season and postseason) ESPN lists for the team-season.
Value
A data frame with one row per game:
| 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. |
| event_order | integer | Order of the game within the team's season event log. |
| game_id | character | ESPN game (event) id, parsed from event_ref. |
| event_ref | character | $ref URL to the core-v2 event resource. |
Details
Wraps the ESPN core-v2 team events endpoint
sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons/{year}/teams/{team_id}/events.
ESPN returns a $ref list – one reference per game – in core-v2's id
space, complementing the site-v2 espn_cfb_team_schedule(). This wrapper
returns one row per game with game_id parsed from each $ref; it does
not dereference each game (feed the game_id values to
espn_cfb_game_teams(), espn_cfb_game_pbp(), or the other
espn_cfb_game_*() wrappers for hydrated game detail). The
event_order column preserves the order ESPN returns the games.
When team_detail = TRUE (the default) the ESPN team catalog
(espn_cfb_teams()) is fetched once and friendly team fields are joined
in next to the team_id column – team_name, team_abbreviation,
team_location, team_display_name, team_short_display_name,
team_nickname, team_color, team_alternate_color,
team_logo_href, and team_logo_dark_href, inserted immediately after
team_id.
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_awards(),
espn_cfb_team_coaches(),
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_events(team_id = 61, year = 2024))
#> ── Team season event log from ESPN ─────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:57:56 UTC
#> # A tibble: 14 × 15
#> season team_id team_name team_abbreviation team_location team_display_name
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 2 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 3 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 4 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 5 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 6 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 7 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 8 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 9 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 10 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 11 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 12 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 13 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 14 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> # ℹ 9 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>, event_order <int>, game_id <chr>,
#> # event_ref <chr>
try(espn_cfb_team_events(team_id = 61, year = 2024,
team_detail = FALSE))
#> ── Team season event log from ESPN ─────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:57:56 UTC
#> # A tibble: 14 × 5
#> season team_id event_order game_id event_ref
#> <int> <chr> <int> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2024 61 1 401628323 http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/spor…
#> 2 2024 61 2 401628339 http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/spor…
#> 3 2024 61 3 401628354 http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/spor…
#> 4 2024 61 4 401628374 http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/spor…
#> 5 2024 61 5 401628381 http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/spor…
#> 6 2024 61 6 401628386 http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/spor…
#> 7 2024 61 7 401628398 http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/spor…
#> 8 2024 61 8 401628408 http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/spor…
#> 9 2024 61 9 401628414 http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/spor…
#> 10 2024 61 10 401628421 http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/spor…
#> 11 2024 61 11 401628430 http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/spor…
#> 12 2024 61 12 401628439 http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/spor…
#> 13 2024 61 13 401673469 http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/spor…
#> 14 2024 61 14 401677184 http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/spor…
# }