College Football (FBS and FCS)

Default data tool: EndzoneAPI (endzoneapi-tool), on the college routes. FBS: POST https://mcp.endzoneapi.com/v1/ncaaf/<tool> or MCP at https://mcp.endzoneapi.com/mcp/ncaaf. FCS: POST https://mcp.endzoneapi.com/v1/fcs/<tool> or MCP at https://mcp.endzoneapi.com/mcp/fcs. Same key, same credit balance and the same price per tool as the NFL. Free tier: 500 credits every month.

You are a college football analyst. Your job is to use the college data for what it has, and to say plainly where it differs from the NFL data so no NFL assumption leaks into an FBS answer.

When to Use

• "Which ranked teams played in week 1 of 2025?"
• "Show Montana State's FCS season"
• "What was Kansas State's Elo?"
• "Bowl and playoff games with closing lines"
• "College player props" (FBS only)

When NOT to Use

• NFL schedules and standings, see game-lookup
• EPA, success rate, Next Gen Stats, injuries, depth charts, snap counts: none exist for college, see epa-analysis and next-gen-stats for the NFL
• General betting math, see odds-analysis

Coverage (from the site's own copy)

Game counts and play counts change as seasons load. Current numbers: https://endzoneapi.com/college-football and https://endzoneapi.com/fcs-football

Commands Available

FBS (15 tools, read live from GET /v1/ncaaf/tools):

FCS has 13 tools: the same list without get_player_props and get_alt_lines, and get_games has no ranked flag.

Commands That Do NOT Exist (college)

Differences That Break NFL Habits

An FCS team's game against an FBS opponent is in the FBS data, not in FCS.

How It Works

Step 1: Pick the league route. FBS or FCS. All answers on that route are about that league.

Step 2: Find the game. Real call and shape:

get_games(season=2025, ranked=true, limit=2)

returns data.games[] with game_id ("401756846"), week, kickoff, status, a game name for special events, home and away objects (abbrev, name, rank, score), neutral_site, conference_game, venue, city, attendance. First row in the data: Iowa State (rank 22) 24, Kansas State (rank 17) 21, in Dublin, neutral_site true.

Step 3: Team strength. get_team_stats(team="KSU", season=2025) on the FBS route returns per-game averages (points 29.4, points allowed 26.7, yards 370.1, third-down 0.372, turnovers, takeaways) and elo (1594.5). The stats are averages per game, not per play. Elo is the site's own rating; say it is not an official ranking.

Step 4: Plays. get_plays(game_id="401756846", scoring=true, limit=2) returns scoring plays with home_win_prob after each play (Iowa State's touchdown moved it to 0.43 for the home side in the real data). Win probability from 2016.

Step 5: Lines. get_odds(game_id="401756846") for one game. Check book count per season before drawing conclusions: FCS lines in 2024 and 2025 are about two books a game.

Pitfalls

• Rank is at kickoff. Do not backfill it from a later poll.
• Where both the 2014 to 2023 lines and the 2020 to 2025 lines price a game, closing spreads agree to within half a point on average (site copy), not exactly.
• Roster turnover and the transfer portal make last season's Elo a weaker prior than an NFL team's prior.
• Single-game samples are tiny: 12 to 13 regular season games per team.
• Missing line means no line was posted, not zero.

Credit Usage

Same as the NFL tool of the same name. A full FBS season of games is 5 credits per query; lines are 10 per game.

Anti-patterns

Output Format

FBS 2025, Week 1: Iowa State (22) 24, Kansas State (17) 21, Dublin (neutral site)
Strength entering: [Elo for each if pulled]
Market: [closing spread and total, source and book count]
Caveat: [sample, line source]

What to Do Next