College Football Team Stats Seasons 2013 To 2023

Context

College football is one of the most long-living fascinations in American culture. Its TV rankings routinely dominate the fall TV schedules. . The NCAA has a stats website but it does not have all the team information and uses many acronyms that are obscure.

With the data available, I went ahead and scraped the team statistics for each college football season from 2013 to the present.

Content

Inside the data is the team statistics for all of the FBS level teams at the year of the college season, it includes offensive, defensive, turnover, redzone, special teams, first down, third down, and fourth down stats. There are around 145 differenc team statistics that can be used.

Acknowledgements

All of this information is thanks to the NCAA stats website which makes the data easy to use and find. See more here: https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs

Inspiration

College Football is the only sport in the world where the college version is much older than the professional version. It has a very storied history and many antidotes about it. Explore the data to learn for yourself the following:

• Does defense really does win championships?
• What features translate into wins?
• Are special teams of particular value for a team's performance?
• Which Collegiate Conference is the best?
• What's the correlation between offensive and defensive performance?