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College Football Data

College football data API for game scores, advanced metrics, betting lines, conferences, recruiting, and team talent.

Fits sports analytics that fetch advanced box scores, season-level team metrics, conference standings, betting lines, and talent rankings.

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Example Use Cases

These are example ways Snow can use College Football Data when building apps with you. This list is meant to show examples, not document every possible capability. Connecting an account does not make Snow run these automatically on its own.

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 rates by quarter and play type, individual PPA breakdowns - Game info: Teams, scores, win probabilities, excitement index Requires a valid gameId from Get Games and Results action. Returns detailed breakdown by quarter.

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 analysis beyond basic stats. At least one of 'year' or 'team' must be provided.

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 with more highly-rated recruits.

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 current conference landscape.

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.

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.

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 rankings. Specify a year to get all teams' ratings for that season, or a team name to get historical ratings, or both for a specific team-season combination.

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 all teams in each conference. Filter by year to get specific season data, or by conference name to get historical ratings for a specific conference.