Overview

The NCAAFB API delivers schedules, rosters, standings, rankings, and statistics for college football from FBS through the USCAA, with live coverage depth declared per game.

This integration guide is a companion to the NCAAFB API reference. The reference documents every field of every feed; these pages show how the feeds work together: which feed answers which question, how IDs connect payloads, how fast data moves, and what a game looks like at each point in its lifecycle.

How the Guide Is Organized

NCAAFB Integration Guide MapFoundations first, then the scenario for your use case

Foundational

Overview (you are here)API Basics Fundamentals Game Status Workflow ID Handling Update Frequencies Push Feeds

Scenarios

Integration Scenarios Pulling Schedules Tracking Live Games Tracking Standings and Rankings Retrieving Rosters and Players Retrieving Seasonal Statistics Tracking Playoffs Monitoring Data Changes

Going Deeper

Historical Data NCAA Football Reference Docs

Every page stands alone; the foundational pages carry the concepts the scenarios build on.

Start with NCAAFB API Basics and NCAAFB Fundamentals, then follow the Integration Scenarios that match your use case.

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What the API Provides

Schedules: season, weekly, current-season, and current-week views with venue and broadcast detail
Game detail: live boxscores, full play-by-play, team and player game statistics, and game-day rosters
League structure: hierarchy, teams, seasons, and tournament feeds with brackets and seeds
Team and player data: team rosters, player profiles, and the transfer portal
Standings, rankings, and statistics: postgame standings, poll rankings by week, league leaders, seasonal team and player statistics, and seasonal awards
Change tracking: a daily change log of modified entities plus daily transactions for reconciliation

Real-time delivery is also available through the Push Events and Push Statistics feeds; the Push Feeds page covers the subscription workflow.

The League at a Glance

College football runs from late August through the New Year's bowl games, and the API addresses the whole calendar under a single season type: every season entry is REG, and the College Football Playoff and bowl games are addressed as tournaments under that season. Season year plus REG address every seasonal feed; the Fundamentals page walks through that addressing.

Coverage spans the FBS, the FCS, and the lower divisions, with the live coverage depth declared per game; the Game Status Workflow page explains the coverage levels. Weekly poll rankings (the AP Poll, the Coaches Poll, and the College Football Playoff rankings) sit alongside the conference standings, and the Tracking Standings and Rankings scenario covers both. Player movement between schools surfaces through the Transfer Portal feed.

Companion Tools

The interactive reference lets you try every endpoint against your key
The Postman workspace carries a ready-made NCAAFB collection
Simulations replay past games on demand for integration testing, including Push