Load NCAA men's football schedules (stats.ncaa.org) from the SportsDataverse data repo

Loads season-level NCAA men's football schedules from stats.ncaa.org; one row per game. Published to the ncaa_mfb_schedule release tag on the sportsdataverse-data repo.

Usage

load_ncaa_mfb_schedule(
  seasons = most_recent_cfb_season(),
  ...,
  dbConnection = NULL,
  tablename = NULL
)

Arguments

seasons: A vector of 4-digit years associated with given college football seasons. Published coverage runs 2013 through the most recent season. Pass seasons = TRUE for every published season. (Min: 2013)
...: Additional arguments passed to an underlying function that writes the season 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.

col_name	types	description
team_id	character
team_name	character
date	character
opponent_id	character
opponent	character
result	character
outcome	character
team_score	integer
opponent_score	integer
contest_id	character
attendance	integer
academic_year	integer
espn_game_id	character
season	integer

Author

Saiem Gilani

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(load_ncaa_mfb_schedule(2013))
#> ── NCAA men's football schedules (stats.ncaa.org) from the SportsDataverse data 
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-09-10 05:50:29 UTC
#> # A tibble: 3,349 × 13
#>    team_id team_name  date       opponent_id opponent  result outcome team_score
#>    <chr>   <chr>      <chr>      <chr>       <chr>     <chr>  <chr>        <int>
#>  1 62681   Akron Zips Date       NA          Opponent  Result NA              NA
#>  2 62681   Akron Zips 08/29/2013 62700       @ UCF     L 7 -… NA              NA
#>  3 62681   Akron Zips 09/07/2013 62857       James Ma… W 35 … NA              NA
#>  4 62681   Akron Zips 09/14/2013 62739       @ Michig… L 24 … NA              NA
#>  5 62681   Akron Zips 09/21/2013 62778       Louisiana L 30 … NA              NA
#>  6 62681   Akron Zips 09/28/2013 62694       @ Bowlin… L 14 … NA              NA
#>  7 62681   Akron Zips 10/05/2013 62758       Ohio      L 3 -… NA              NA
#>  8 62681   Akron Zips 10/12/2013 62754       @ NIU     L 20 … NA              NA
#>  9 62681   Akron Zips 10/19/2013 62736       @ Miami … W 24 … NA              NA
#> 10 62681   Akron Zips 10/26/2013 62690       Ball St.  L 24 … NA              NA
#> # ℹ 3,339 more rows
#> # ℹ 5 more variables: opponent_score <int>, contest_id <chr>, attendance <int>,
#> #   academic_year <int>, season <int>
# }