Get the ranked teams from every poll ESPN published in a single week of a college football season – the AP Top 25, the Coaches Poll, the CFP committee rankings, and the computer polls, with each team's rank, points, and first-place votes.
Arguments
- year
(Integer required): Season, 4 digit format (YYYY).
- week
(Integer required): Week number within the season type.
- season_type
(Integer default 2): ESPN season type id.
2= regular season,3= postseason.- team_detail
(Logical): when
TRUE(default), fetch the ESPN team catalog once and join friendly team fields next to theteam_idcolumn (see Details). SetFALSEto skip the catalog fetch and the join.
Value
A data frame with one row per poll-team:
| col_name | types | description |
| season | integer | Season (4-digit year). |
| season_type | integer | ESPN season type id queried. |
| week | integer | Week number queried. |
| ranking_id | character | ESPN poll id. |
| ranking_name | character | Poll name (e.g. AP Top 25). |
| ranking_type | character | Poll type code (e.g. ap, coaches, cfp). |
| occurrence | character | Poll occurrence label (e.g. Week 8, Preseason). |
| rank_type | character | ranked for ranked teams, others for receiving-votes teams. |
| current_rank | integer | Current rank (0 for receiving-votes teams). |
| previous_rank | integer | Rank in the previous poll (0 if unranked). |
| points | numeric | Poll points awarded to the team. |
| first_place_votes | integer | Number of first-place votes received. |
| trend | character | Movement vs the previous poll (e.g. -, +3). |
| record_summary | character | Team record at the time of the poll (e.g. 7-1). |
| team_id | character | ESPN team id (parsed from team_ref). |
| 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. |
| team_ref | character | $ref URL to the per-season team resource. |
Details
Wraps the ESPN core-v2 endpoint
sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons/{year}/types/{season_type}/weeks/{week}/rankings.
The week index returns one $ref per poll; this wrapper dereferences
each poll and returns one row per (poll x ranked team). Both the
top-25 ranked teams (rank_type = "ranked") and the receiving-votes
teams ESPN lists below the cutoff (rank_type = "others") are included.
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; teams are
then returned as ESPN team ids only.
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_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()
Examples
# \donttest{
try(espn_cfb_week_rankings(year = 2024, week = 8))
#> ── Weekly rankings from ESPN ───────────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:58:19 UTC
#> # A tibble: 210 × 26
#> season season_type week ranking_id ranking_name ranking_type occurrence
#> <int> <int> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> 2 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> 3 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> 4 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> 5 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> 6 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> 7 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> 8 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> 9 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> 10 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> # ℹ 200 more rows
#> # ℹ 19 more variables: rank_type <chr>, current_rank <int>,
#> # previous_rank <int>, points <dbl>, first_place_votes <int>, trend <chr>,
#> # record_summary <chr>, team_id <chr>, team_name <chr>,
#> # team_abbreviation <chr>, team_location <chr>, team_display_name <chr>,
#> # team_short_display_name <chr>, team_nickname <chr>, team_color <chr>,
#> # team_alternate_color <chr>, team_logo_href <chr>, …
try(espn_cfb_week_rankings(year = 2024, week = 8, team_detail = FALSE))
#> ── Weekly rankings from ESPN ───────────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:58:19 UTC
#> # A tibble: 210 × 16
#> season season_type week ranking_id ranking_name ranking_type occurrence
#> <int> <int> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> 2 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> 3 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> 4 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> 5 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> 6 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> 7 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> 8 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> 9 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> 10 2024 2 8 1 AP Top 25 ap Week 8
#> # ℹ 200 more rows
#> # ℹ 9 more variables: rank_type <chr>, current_rank <int>, previous_rank <int>,
#> # points <dbl>, first_place_votes <int>, trend <chr>, record_summary <chr>,
#> # team_id <chr>, team_ref <chr>
# }