ESPN College Football Team Poll Rank History

Get a college football team's poll-rank history for a season – one row per poll (AP, Coaches, CFP Committee, ...) the team appeared in, with current/previous rank, trend, and record.

Usage

espn_cfb_team_ranks(
  team_id = NULL,
  year = NULL,
  week = NULL,
  team_detail = TRUE
)

Arguments

team_id

(Integer required): ESPN team id.

year

(Integer required): Season, 4 digit format (YYYY).

week

(Integer optional): Regular-season week. When supplied, the team's rank at that specific week is returned.

team_detail

(Logical): when TRUE (default), fetch the ESPN team catalog once and join friendly team fields next to the team_id column (see Details). Set FALSE to skip the catalog fetch and the join.

Value

A data frame with one row per poll-rank:

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.
week	integer	Week of the rank occurrence.
poll_id	character	ESPN poll id (e.g. 21 = CFP Committee Rankings).
poll_name	character	Poll display name.
poll_short_name	character	Poll short name.
poll_type	character	Poll type code (e.g. cfp, ap, usa).
headline	character	Headline ESPN attaches to the poll release.
date	character	Date of the poll release.
current_rank	integer	Team's rank in this poll.
previous_rank	integer	Team's rank in the prior release of this poll.
trend	character	Rank movement string (e.g. +3, -1).
points	numeric	Voting points the team received.
first_place_votes	integer	First-place votes the team received.
record_summary	character	Team's win-loss record at the time of the poll.

Details

Wraps the ESPN core-v2 team ranks endpoint sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons/{year}/teams/{team_id}/ranks. When a week is supplied the week-resolved variant is used instead: sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons/{year}/types/2/weeks/{week}/teams/{team_id}/ranks. The index endpoint returns a $ref list of poll-rank resources; this wrapper dereferences each one and returns a single row per poll with the rank detail flattened. Without a week, ESPN returns the season's final poll positions (one row per poll, plus postseason polls).

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_events(), espn_cfb_team_leaders(), espn_cfb_team_powerindex(), 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_ranks(team_id = 61, year = 2024))
#> ── Team poll rank history from ESPN ────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:57:58 UTC
#> # A tibble: 4 × 25
#>   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 
#> # ℹ 19 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>, week <int>, poll_id <chr>, poll_name <chr>,
#> #   poll_short_name <chr>, poll_type <chr>, headline <chr>, date <chr>,
#> #   current_rank <int>, previous_rank <int>, trend <chr>, points <dbl>,
#> #   first_place_votes <int>, record_summary <chr>
  try(espn_cfb_team_ranks(team_id = 61, year = 2024,
                          team_detail = FALSE))
#> ── Team poll rank history from ESPN ────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:57:58 UTC
#> # A tibble: 4 × 15
#>   season team_id  week poll_id poll_name      poll_short_name poll_type headline
#>    <int> <chr>   <int> <chr>   <chr>          <chr>           <chr>     <chr>   
#> 1   2024 61         16 21      Playoff Commi… CFP Rankings    cfp       2024 NC…
#> 2   2024 61         16 22      College Footb… CFP Seedings    tourname… 2024 NC…
#> 3   2024 61          1 1       AP Top 25      AP Poll         ap        2024 NC…
#> 4   2024 61          1 2       AFCA Coaches … AFCA Coaches P… usa       2024 NC…
#> # ℹ 7 more variables: date <chr>, current_rank <int>, previous_rank <int>,
#> #   trend <chr>, points <dbl>, first_place_votes <int>, record_summary <chr>
# }