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

Loads season-level NCAA men's football team directories from stats.ncaa.org, with division/conference alignment; one row per team- season. Published to the ncaa_mfb_teams release tag on the sportsdataverse-data repo.

Usage

load_ncaa_mfb_teams(
  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
academic_year	integer
division	integer
season	integer

Author

Saiem Gilani

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(load_ncaa_mfb_teams(2013))
#> ── NCAA men's football teams (stats.ncaa.org) from the SportsDataverse data repo
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-09-10 05:50:32 UTC
#> # A tibble: 252 × 5
#>    team_id team_name       academic_year division season
#>    <chr>   <chr>                   <int>    <int>  <int>
#>  1 62793   Air Force                2014       11   2013
#>  2 62681   Akron                    2014       11   2013
#>  3 62682   Alabama                  2014       11   2013
#>  4 62684   App State                2014       11   2013
#>  5 62686   Arizona                  2014       11   2013
#>  6 62685   Arizona St.              2014       11   2013
#>  7 62688   Arkansas                 2014       11   2013
#>  8 62687   Arkansas St.             2014       11   2013
#>  9 62794   Army West Point          2014       11   2013
#> 10 62689   Auburn                   2014       11   2013
#> # ℹ 242 more rows
# }