A set of R scripts that scrape college football data from cfbdatawarehouse.com and wikipedia.org. All division I-A and I-AA teams are included. The data includes:

• Game by game records
• Bowl game records
• Conference and Division Affiliations
• Year end polls for all time
• Yearly coach records
• Current coaches coaching and playing background
• Rivals recruiting rankings

• Predict whether a team will be bowl eligible for the next season
• Is recruiting ranking (number of k-star recruits) predictive of success?
• Is it primarily the school or head coach that predicts the quality of recruits?

Current version of the final data can be found within the directory: Data/Final/cfbData-Feb2013.Rdata. This can be loaded with load("cfbData-Feb2013.Rdata") from within the directory. The data is stored in the object cfbData or you can use the command ls() to see all the objects currently loaded within R.

Games nested within Years nested within School/Teams

Games

• Win (1/0)
• Opponent
• Date
• Location
• Score

Years

• Number of wins
• Number of points scored
• Number of points allowed
• Bowl (1/0)
• Head Coach
  • Salary
  • Played college football (1/0)
  • Played professional football (1/0)
  • Coached high school
  • Coached college head
  • Coached college assistant
  • Coached professional
• End of season ranking
• Conference
• Division (e.g., I-A, I-AA)
• Athletic revenue
• Number of assistant coaches
• Rivals.com recruit ranking
• ESPN.com recruit ranking

School/Team

• Geographic data (long/lat)
• Sector (e.g., public, private)

TBA

Pull the rosters from each years teams. These are available in Media Guides http://www.collegefootballdatadvds.com/guides/guides.html in PDF format

Pull the All-Americans, All-Conference, and award winners for each year. Also the coaching awards.

Add weather data to the game-level data.