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College Football Data

Pulls comprehensive college football statistics, rankings, and recruiting data into your workflows to automate sports analytics and content creation.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native College Football Data integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right College Football Data calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your College Football Data data, across all 56 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke College Football Data access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in College Football Data, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when College Football Data is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach College Football Data.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every College Football Data action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on College Football Data, and when to use it.

Get advanced box score
Use this when you need team and player level advanced analytics for a specific game ID.
Get advanced game stats
Pull detailed offensive and defensive metrics like success rates and havoc for a game.
Get betting lines
Fetch current or historical betting lines and totals filtered by game and provider.
Get drive data
Retrieve detailed drive level results and outcomes for specific games or teams.
Get games and results
Pull game schedules and final scores filtered by season, week, or team.
Get player game stats
Fetch detailed box score statistics for individual players in specific games.
Get play by play data
Pull a complete log of every play in a game filtered by season or team.
Get player PPA by game
Retrieve player level Predicted Points Added and EPA metrics broken down by game.
Get rankings polls
Pull weekly human or computer poll rankings for a specific season and week.
Get Elo ratings
Retrieve historical Elo ratings for a team or all teams in a given season.
Get SP+ ratings
Pull historical SP+ team ratings for a specific season year.
Get transfer portal entries
Retrieve a list of players entering the transfer portal including their recruiting ratings.
Get returning production
Fetch returning offense and defense production splits by team and season.
Get matchup history
Pull head to head records between two FBS teams over a specified date range.
Get NFL draft picks
List NFL draft picks filtered by year, round, player, or NFL team.
List FBS teams
Pull a complete list of FBS teams for a specific season year.
Advanced Box Score
Tool to retrieve advanced box score metrics for a single college football game. Use after selecting a specific game to access team- and player level advanced analytics.
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
Tool to retrieve advanced season metrics aggregated by team and season. Use after selecting season and team filters.
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
Tool to fetch composite team talent rankings by season. Use when you need 247Sports team talent composites for specified seasons.
Conference Memberships History
Tool to retrieve historical conference memberships for teams, including years active and division. Use when you need to trace a team's conference history over time.
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 Game Media
Tool to retrieve game media information and broadcast schedules (TV, radio, web, etc.). Use after selecting season year and optional filters (week, team, conference). Example: "Get week 3 TV and radio outlets for 2025 SEC games."
Get Team Game Stats
Tool to fetch team statistics at the game level. Use when you need detailed box score stats for games after filtering parameters.
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
Tool to list all college football conferences. Use after authenticating to retrieve the up to date list of conferences.
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
Tool to list college football teams. Use when you need a list of teams filtered by season year and/or conference.
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.

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven manages the high volume of play by play data by implementing intelligent pagination and filtering at the request level. Instead of pulling every play for an entire season, which would exceed context windows, the agent targets specific games or weeks based on your prompt. It then summarizes the key events or extracts specific metrics like third down conversion rates before passing the data to the model. This ensures that the analysis remains focused and avoids hitting token limits while still giving you a comprehensive view of game flow and player performance across the specified dataset.
Yes. You can build a workflow that triggers every Tuesday morning to pull the latest SP+ and Elo ratings from College Football Data. The agent compares these new values against the previous week's snapshot stored in your database. If a team's rating jumps by a significant margin but the betting line remains stagnant, the agent can send a notification to your Slack or email. This allows you to identify market inefficiencies in real time by leveraging the most recent advanced metrics available through the API without manual checking.
The integration provides full access to both FBS and FCS data, though the depth of advanced metrics varies by level. For FBS teams, you have access to the full suite of advanced box scores, PPA metrics, and detailed recruiting composites. For FCS teams, the agent can pull game results, schedules, and basic team stats. When you ask a question about a specific school, the agent automatically detects the division and routes the request to the correct endpoint to ensure you get the most detailed data available for that specific program.
College Football Data implements rate limits to ensure stability for all users. A common quirk of this API is that burst requests for large amounts of play by play data or season long player stats can trigger a 429 Too Many Requests response. Ceven handles this by implementing an exponential backoff strategy. If the agent hits a rate limit, it will automatically pause and retry the request at increasing intervals. This means your workflows will still complete successfully, though they may take slightly longer to execute during periods of heavy API congestion.
Absolutely. The agent can query player game stats and PPA metrics across multiple seasons to build a longitudinal performance profile. By chaining requests for different years, Ceven can aggregate total yards, touchdowns, and efficiency ratings. You can then compare a player's growth trajectory against the average for their position group using the recruiting dictionary. This is particularly useful for draft prep where you need to see how a player's performance evolved from their freshman year through their final season of eligibility.
The transfer portal endpoint is queried in real time whenever you trigger a relevant workflow. Because the portal is highly fluid, the agent does not rely on stale caches. When you ask for recent entries, Ceven pulls the latest list from College Football Data, which includes the player's position, original recruiting rating, and the teams involved. You can set up a daily agent to scan for players moving into a specific conference and summarize the impact on the overall talent level of that conference.
Yes. The agent utilizes the coaches and history endpoint to retrieve season by season records. It can correlate a coach's win loss record with the composite team talent ratings for those same years. This allows you to answer complex questions, such as whether a coach consistently overperforms relative to the talent on the roster. The agent can pull this data for multiple coaches and generate a comparison table showing win percentages and rating differentials over a five or ten year window.
Ceven can apply any filter supported by the College Football Data API, including position groups and season years. By using the recruiting group dictionary, the agent knows exactly how to categorize players into groups like QB or WR. You can prompt the agent to find teams that have recruited the most four star players at a specific position over the last three years. The agent then handles the multi step process of listing teams, pulling their recruiting composites, and filtering for the specific criteria you requested.

Alternatives to College Football Data

Other tools that solve a similar problem. Ceven supports these too, so you can switch or run more than one at once.

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