Load college football conference and division names by season from the SportsDataverse data repo

Loads one row per college football group per season it existed, with the group's name, short name, abbreviation, and parent group as of that season rather than today's labels, plus its member count. Published to the cfb_groups release tag on the sportsdataverse-data repo.

Usage

load_cfb_group_seasons(..., dbConnection = NULL, tablename = NULL)

Arguments

...

Additional arguments passed to an underlying function that writes the data into a database.

dbConnection

A DBIConnection object, as returned by DBI::dbConnect()

tablename

The name of the data table within the database

Value

Returns a cfbfastR_data tibble with one row per group-season.

col_name	types	description
league	character	League key, always cfb.
group_id	character	SDV group id, cfb:{slug}.
season	integer	Season (fall year; 2025 = fall 2025).
level	character	Group level: subdivision, conference, or division.
name	character	Group name as of that season.
short_name	character	Group short name as of that season.
abbreviation	character	Group abbreviation as of that season.
parent_group_id	character	Parent group id as of that season (division to conference to subdivision).
n_teams	integer	Number of member teams that season.

Author

Saiem Gilani

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(load_cfb_group_seasons())
#> ── college football conference and division names by season from the SportsDatav
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-09-27 11:08:22 UTC
#> # A tibble: 5,551 × 9
#>    league group_id season level    name  short_name abbreviation parent_group_id
#>    <chr>  <chr>     <int> <chr>    <chr> <chr>      <chr>        <chr>          
#>  1 cfb    cfb:acc    1953 confere… Atla… ACC        ACC          cfb:fbs        
#>  2 cfb    cfb:acc    1954 confere… Atla… ACC        ACC          cfb:fbs        
#>  3 cfb    cfb:acc    1955 confere… Atla… ACC        ACC          cfb:fbs        
#>  4 cfb    cfb:acc    1956 confere… Atla… ACC        ACC          cfb:fbs        
#>  5 cfb    cfb:acc    1957 confere… Atla… ACC        ACC          cfb:fbs        
#>  6 cfb    cfb:acc    1958 confere… Atla… ACC        ACC          cfb:fbs        
#>  7 cfb    cfb:acc    1959 confere… Atla… ACC        ACC          cfb:fbs        
#>  8 cfb    cfb:acc    1960 confere… Atla… ACC        ACC          cfb:fbs        
#>  9 cfb    cfb:acc    1961 confere… Atla… ACC        ACC          cfb:fbs        
#> 10 cfb    cfb:acc    1962 confere… Atla… ACC        ACC          cfb:fbs        
#> # ℹ 5,541 more rows
#> # ℹ 1 more variable: n_teams <int>
# }