Connect College Football Data to your AI agent
CollegeFootballData.com provides comprehensive college football data, including game scores, statistics, and recruiting information, accessible via a RESTful API.
We set up the connection using your own College Football Data account, with keys you control, and keep it running. Your agent picks it up and starts doing the work.
Actions
What your agent can do in College Football Data
Each one is a real action the agent can take on its own, the same things a person clicking around College Football Data could do. Read-only by default; write actions are confirmed against your policy.
- Advanced Box Score Retrieves advanced analytics for a single college football game including: - Team metrics: PPA (Predicted Points Added), success rates, rushing efficiency, havoc rates, scoring opportunities - Player metrics: Usage rate…
- Advanced Game Stats Tool to retrieve advanced team metrics at the game level. Use when detailed offensive and defensive metrics (success rates, explosiveness, havoc) are needed.
- Advanced Season Stats by Team Retrieve advanced season-level team statistics including PPA (Predicted Points Added), success rates, explosiveness, havoc metrics, and rushing/passing efficiency breakdowns. Use this for in-depth team performance analy…
- Betting Lines Tool to fetch betting lines and totals by game and provider. Use when you need current or historical betting line data filtered by specific criteria.
- Composite Team Talent Fetches 247Sports composite team talent rankings for a given season. Returns a list of all FBS teams ranked by their composite talent score, which is based on aggregate recruit ratings. Higher scores indicate rosters wi…
- Conference Memberships Tool to retrieve current conference memberships for college football teams. Returns which teams belong to which conference, optionally filtered by conference. Use to find all teams in a specific conference or to see the…
- Divisions by Conference Tool to list FBS/FCS conference divisions with active years and metadata. Use after specifying an optional season year to filter active divisions.
- Get Conference SP+ Ratings Retrieve aggregated historical conference SP+ (Success Rate + Points Per Play) ratings for college football conferences. Use this to get conference-level offensive, defensive, and special teams metrics aggregated from a…
- Get Drive Data Retrieves college football drive-level data including offensive/defensive teams, yards gained, drive results (TD, PUNT, INT, etc.), time elapsed, and scoring information. Use to analyze drive efficiency, red zone perfor…
- Get Field Goal Expected Points Retrieves field goal expected points values for various field positions and distances. Returns static model data showing expected points for field goal attempts based on distance. Useful for analyzing field goal decisio…
- FPI Ratings Retrieves historical Football Power Index (FPI) ratings for college football teams. FPI is ESPN's measure that predicts team strength and game outcomes. Use this to get team ratings, efficiency metrics, and resume ranki…
- Get Game Havoc Stats Tool to retrieve havoc statistics aggregated by game. Use when you need game-level havoc metrics including DB havoc rate, front seven havoc rate, and total havoc events for offense and defense.
- Get Game Media Retrieve broadcast information for college football games including TV channels, streaming platforms, and radio outlets. Use this to find where games are being broadcast. Returns information about the broadcaster/outlet…
- Get Games and Results Tool to retrieve college American football games and results for a given season/week/team. Use when you need game schedules or outcomes filtered by specific criteria. Covers NCAA only; NFL and other sports return no dat…
- Get Player Game Stats Fetches detailed player statistics for college football games. Returns individual player stats (passing, rushing, receiving, defensive, kicking, etc.) organized by game and team. Use cases: - Get QB passing stats for a…
- Get Player Usage Retrieves player usage data for a given season. Returns usage percentages across different play situations (overall, passing, rushing, by down, etc.). Use this to analyze how frequently players are involved in plays, fi…
- Get Play Types Tool to fetch all available play types. Use when you need a catalog of play types for filtering or referencing play data.
- Get Predicted Points Added By Team Tool to retrieve historical team Predicted Points Added (PPA) metrics by season. Use when you need season-level PPA performance data for teams to analyze offensive and defensive efficiency across play types and down sit…
- Get Pregame Win Probabilities Tool to retrieve pregame win probabilities for college football games. Use when you need predictive data about game outcomes before they are played, filtered by season, week, or team.
- Get Recruits Retrieves player recruiting rankings from the College Football Data API. Returns detailed information about high school, prep school, and junior college recruits including star ratings, composite ratings, rankings, phys…
- Get Stats Categories Tool to fetch all available team statistical categories. Use when you need to discover valid category names for statistical analysis or filtering team stats.
- Get Team Game Stats Fetch team-level box score statistics for college football games. Returns detailed game stats including offense (rushing/passing yards, TDs, turnovers), defense (tackles, sacks, interceptions), and special teams (kick/p…
- Get Team Recruiting Rankings Retrieve team recruiting rankings from the College Football Data API. Returns composite recruiting rankings based on recruit star ratings and commitments. Use to compare recruiting success across teams or track a team's…
- Get Teams ATS Records Tool to retrieve against-the-spread (ATS) summary by team. Use when you need historical betting performance data showing how teams performed relative to point spreads.
- Get User Info Retrieves information about the authenticated user from the College Football Data API. Returns the user's Patreon subscription level and remaining API calls for rate limit monitoring. Use this to check your current API…
- Get Win Probability Tool to query play-by-play win probabilities for a specific game. Use when you need detailed probability metrics showing how win likelihood changed throughout the game.
- List Coaches and History Tool to get coaching records and history. Use when you need coaches’ season-by-season data with optional filters.
- List Conferences Retrieves all college football conferences from the College Football Data API. Returns conferences across all NCAA divisions (FBS, FCS, Division II, Division III). Use this to get conference IDs for filtering other API…
- List FBS Teams Tool to list FBS teams for a given season. Use after selecting the season year to retrieve all FBS teams.
- List FCS Teams Tool to list FCS teams for a given season and conference. Use when you need a list of FCS programs filtered by season year and conference.
- List Teams Retrieve a list of college football teams from the CFBD (College Football Data) API. Use this action to: - Get all college football teams (call with no parameters) - Get teams from a specific season (use year parameter)…
- List Venues and Stadiums Tool to list college football venues with metadata (name, capacity, location, etc.). Use when you need detailed venue information for a specific season.
- NFL Draft Picks Tool to list NFL Draft picks. Use when you need draft pick data by year, round, team, player, etc.
- NFL Draft Positions Retrieves the standardized list of NFL draft positions. Returns all position names and abbreviations used to classify players in NFL drafts. Useful for filtering draft picks by position or understanding position categor…
- NFL Draft Teams Tool to list NFL teams used in draft endpoints. Use when preparing to retrieve NFL draft data by team.
- Play by play data Tool to fetch play-by-play data for college football games. Use when you need detailed play logs filtered by season, week, team, or game.
- Play Stats Player Fetch player-level statistics tied to individual plays. Returns detailed stats for each player's contribution to a play (rushes, receptions, completions, etc.). Use this when you need: - Play-by-play player statistics -…
- Play Stat Types Tool to fetch all play-level stat type definitions. Use when you need a catalog of available play stat types for filtering or referencing.
- Player PPA by Game Retrieve player-level PPA (Predicted Points Added) / EPA (Expected Points Added) stats for individual games. PPA measures how many points a player adds/subtracts compared to average performance on similar plays. Use thi…
- PPA Player By Season Tool to fetch player-level PPA/EPA aggregated by season. Use when you need seasonal PPA metrics for specific players or groups after applying filters.
- Predict Expected Points (EP) Get expected points (EP) for all field positions given a specific down and distance scenario. Returns expected points values for yard lines 1-99, useful for analyzing game situations and fourth-down decisions. Common sc…
- PPA Team By Game Tool to retrieve team Predicted Points Added (PPA) by game. Use when you need team-level PPA metrics for games after filtering by season, week, team, or date.
- Rankings Polls Retrieve college football poll rankings (AP Top 25, Coaches Poll, Playoff Committee, FCS, Division II/III). Returns weekly rankings including team rank, school name, conference, first-place votes, and points. Use this t…
- Elo Ratings Tool to retrieve Elo ratings for college football teams. Use when you need historical Elo ratings by season or for a specific team.
- SP+ Ratings Retrieve SP+ (Success Rate + Points Per Play) team ratings for college football. SP+ is an advanced tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. Use this to get overall team ratings, offensive/de…
- SRS Ratings Retrieves Simple Rating System (SRS) team ratings. SRS measures team strength based on point differential adjusted for strength of schedule. Either year or team parameter must be provided. Use year to get all teams' rat…
- Recruiting Group Dictionary Retrieves aggregated college football recruiting data grouped by position. Use this tool to analyze recruiting performance by position group for specific teams or conferences. Returns composite ratings, star averages, a…
- Recruiting Transfer Portal Retrieves NCAA college football transfer portal entries for a given season. Returns player transfer information including origin school, destination school (if committed), position, star rating, transfer rating, transfe…
- Returning Production by Team Tool to fetch Bill Connelly–style returning production splits by team and season. Use when evaluating returning offense, defense, and overall production for teams in a given season.
- Search Players Search for college football players by name. Returns top 100 results matching the search term. Use this action to find players by name and optionally filter by year, team, or position.
- Season Stats Player Fetch aggregated season statistics for college football players. Returns individual player stats by category (passing, rushing, receiving, defensive, kicking, etc.) for a specified year. Useful for comparing player perf…
- Season Team Stats Tool to get basic season stats aggregated by team and season. Use when you need a summary of team-level statistics for a particular season.
- Season Types Dictionary Retrieve the list of available season types for a specific college football year. Returns types like 'regular', 'postseason', and for certain years 'spring_regular', 'spring_postseason'. Use this to discover valid seaso…
- Team Matchup History Tool to retrieve head-to-head team matchup records over a date range. Use after selecting two FBS teams to compare their matchup history.
- Get team season records Retrieve college football team win-loss records for a specific season. Returns detailed breakdowns including total, conference, home, away, neutral site, regular season, and postseason records. Requires a year parameter…
- Get Team Roster Fetches the roster for a college football team for a specific season. Returns player details including name, position, height, weight, jersey number, academic year, and hometown info. Use this to get player information…
Setup
How we connect it
- 1
Connect your account
You create a key in College Football Data, a key you create and control, and paste it in once. It lives in a secrets store on your server, not with us.
- 2
Set the guardrails
Read-only by default. You choose which write actions the agent may take, and anything outside that policy gets confirmed with you first.
- 3
We keep it running
Health checks on every connection, updates handled for you, and we watch the first week of activity to make sure the work lands.
FAQ
College Football Data questions, answered.
With a key you create and control. You paste it in once, it is stored in a secrets store on your server, permissions are scoped to the minimum the agent needs, and you can revoke it at any time.
The actions College Football Data's API allows, the same things a person clicking around the app could do. Connections start read-only by default; write actions are confirmed against the policy you set before the agent takes them.
Connections are priced per tool on top of the base plan. Some are included, some are premium. See pricing for how connection charges work.
Standard tools are ready inside 7 business days of the setup call. We test the connection end to end, walk you through how the agent uses it, and watch the first week of activity.
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