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Yes. FBS and FCS schedules use separate league keys, but both share the same live match surface. During games, score, period and clock polling runs every 15 seconds; the first kickoff can take up to about two minutes to register while the worker is in its idle cadence. Live plays are now available at GET /v1/live-stats/american_football/:matchId/plays and refresh on an approximately five-minute worker cadence. Per-game player and team box scores remain postgame data rather than a live in-game surface.

The live match poller is adaptive, so the honest answer has two numbers. While any game is in progress, score, period and clock poll every 15 seconds plus a small scheduling stagger; when nothing is live, it backs off to a two-minute cycle, so the first kickoff can take longer to appear. GET /v1/matches/:id is served uncached. Live plays are a separate surface at GET /v1/live-stats/american_football/:matchId/plays and currently refresh about every five minutes. Per-game player stats, team stats and box scores are still written after the game and should not be presented as live.

A full decade — 9,204 FBS games from 2016 through the 2026 schedule (2016-08-27 to 2026-11-28). Per-game player stats are live for 2016 through 2025, covering 93% of finished FBS games (8,188 of 8,798). That total includes 1,024 FBS-vs-FCS "buy games" — previously excluded because FCS opponents had no resolvable roster, now carried since FCS is its own separate league (see below).

All FBS programs across the Power Five, Group of Five, and independents, built on the College Football Data feed. FCS (Football Championship Subdivision) is also covered as a separate league — see the FCS question below.

Yes — as a separate league (league=ncaaf-fcs), sharing the same American Football sport as FBS, not merged into it. 139 teams. A decade of regular-season history, 2016-2025 (weeks 1-15 only — the 24-team FCS postseason playoff is not loaded, a real gap). 7,113 games touch an FCS team: 6,089 FCS-vs-FCS games filed under the FCS league, plus 1,024 FBS-vs-FCS "buy games" filed under NCAAF (FBS) since they are part of the FBS team's own schedule too — both kinds show up on either team's own record via /v1/teams/:id/form and /v1/teams/:id/h2h-intelligence, but a league-scoped browse (league=ncaaf-fcs) surfaces the 6,089 FCS-vs-FCS games only. Per-game player stats are strong for 2021-2025 (88-99% of games) and the 1,024 buy games are covered back to 2016 — but pure FCS-vs-FCS box scores are sparse before 2021: the upstream source's own historical FCS box-score collection doesn't reach back that far, a source limit, not a gap on our end. End-to-end that's about 58% of the 7,113 games (1,087,323 rows across 42,761 players). No standings, Elo ratings, or odds for FCS yet.

Yes — for FBS, on /v1/odds/historical. Closing-line snapshots, plus a T-24h snapshot, are archived for finished FBS games, which is what you want for backtesting; meta.snapshot_types_present names what a response contains and /v1/coverage reports the covered-game count under data_types.odds_historical. Reach for that endpoint rather than /v1/matches/:id/odds: the per-match route serves CURRENT pricing only, so it returns nothing for a game whose board has closed. Same shape as the NFL odds surface. No odds are loaded for FCS today.

Yes. Live college-football plays are served at /v1/live-stats/american_football/:matchId/plays on an approximately five-minute refresh cadence while a game is active. Per-game player statistics (passing, rushing, receiving, and more) remain a separate postgame surface: 93% of finished FBS games from 2016 through 2025 carry box-score-level player stats via /v1/players/:id/stats. FCS coverage is strongest from 2021 through 2025 and sparse before 2021 because the upstream historical collection does not reach further back.

Yes. It covers scores, standings, team form, head-to-head history, and per-game player stats, FBS and FCS alike. There is a free tier; pricing lists what each plan covers. Per-game and historical odds both require the Edge plan ($149/mo) or higher. Free keys get 250 req/day (500 with GitHub).