# How to connect College Football Data to Hermes Agent (paste one key, 56 tools) > Connect College Football Data to Hermes with ClawLink: paste your College Football Data key once and 56 tools work from chat. No MCP server to run, nothing stored on your machine. Web version: https://claw-link.dev/hermes/college-football-data Most guides for giving Hermes Agent College Football Data access start with registering your own OAuth app or pasting API keys into env files, then leave the token refresh and tool wiring to you. ClawLink gives Hermes a more practical College Football Data setup: pair once in the browser and your always-on Hermes agent can act on College Football Data for you, reading and doing real work on your behalf with no auth, token refresh, or tool wiring to build yourself. ## Setup It takes three steps to connect Hermes to College Football Data. 1. **Install ClawLink** — add the plugin to Hermes Agent once. 2. **Connect College Football Data** — one-click OAuth in the ClawLink dashboard. 3. **Use it from chat** — ask Hermes Agent in plain English. **Paste this into Hermes to set up ClawLink:** > Set up ClawLink for Hermes and tell me when it's ready. > 1. Install the plugin: `hermes plugins install ClawLink-HQ/hermes-plugin --enable` > 2. Start pairing with `hermes clawlink begin`. It prints an approval link, so show me the link and stop, don't wait. > 3. I'll approve it in my browser, then reply "approved". > 4. When I say approved, finish setup: `hermes clawlink finish` > 5. Then run `hermes clawlink test` and tell me whether ClawLink is ready. **Alternative for any agent (no plugin needed):** if the Hermes Agent plugin route isn't available or doesn't work, any AI agent with shell access can use the ClawLink CLI instead: ```bash npx -y @useclawlink/cli login # sign in via browser — no API key to paste npx -y @useclawlink/cli connect college-football-data # connect College Football Data (browser OAuth) npx -y @useclawlink/cli actions college-football-data # list available actions npx -y @useclawlink/cli run college-football-data --input '' # execute (add --confirm for writes) ``` ### Install by command The prompt above walks Hermes through this. By hand, it is four commands and a browser approval: ```bash hermes plugins install ClawLink-HQ/hermes-plugin --enable hermes clawlink begin # prints an approval link — open it and approve hermes clawlink finish # after approving in the browser hermes clawlink test ``` Then connect College Football Data in the [ClawLink dashboard](https://claw-link.dev/dashboard) — paste your College Football Data API key once. Verify the connection by asking Hermes: > Use College Football Data to advanced box score and walk me through the result in plain English. ### Using a different agent? The Hermes plugin is one client of ClawLink's MCP server. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any agent that can run a shell command pairs with the same ClawLink account through the CLI: ```bash npx -y @useclawlink/cli login ``` `login` opens the same browser approval and stores a credential locally. Once College Football Data is connected in the dashboard, that agent calls the same 56 College Football Data tools over MCP. Full setup for MCP clients and shell agents: [connect apps to any AI agent](https://claw-link.dev/learn/connect-apps-to-any-ai-agent). ## College Football Data MCP for Hermes Looking for a College Football Data MCP server for Hermes Agent? ClawLink connects College Football Data to Hermes Agent and exposes 56 College Football Data tools your agent can call over [MCP](https://claw-link.dev/learn/what-is-an-mcp-server), with [hosted auth](https://claw-link.dev/learn/oauth-for-ai-agents) and nothing to run or maintain yourself. Using OpenClaw instead? The [OpenClaw College Football Data integration](https://claw-link.dev/openclaw/college-football-data) works the same way. ## What the Hermes Agent College Football Data integration can do 56 College Football Data tools are ready for Hermes Agent once the account is connected. The 30 below are the ones people reach for most; your agent can call all 56. ### 30 of 56 College Football Data tools for Hermes | Tool | What it does | |---|---| | **Advanced box score** `college_football_data_advanced_box_score` | Retrieves advanced analytics for a single college football game including: - Team metrics: PPA | | **Advanced game stats** `college_football_data_advanced_game_stats` | Retrieve advanced team metrics at the game level | | **Advanced season stats team** `college_football_data_advanced_season_stats_team` | Retrieve advanced season-level team statistics including PPA (Predicted Points Added), success | | **Betting lines** `college_football_data_betting_lines` | Fetch betting lines and totals by game and provider | | **Composite team talent** `college_football_data_composite_team_talent` | Fetches 247Sports composite team talent rankings for a given season | | **Conference memberships history** `college_football_data_conference_memberships_history` | Retrieve current conference memberships for college football teams | | **Divisions by conference** `college_football_data_divisions_by_conference` | List FBS/FCS conference divisions with active years and metadata | | **Get conference sp** `college_football_data_get_conference_sp` | Retrieve aggregated historical conference SP+ (Success Rate + Points Per Play) ratings for | | **Get drive data** `college_football_data_get_drive_data` | Retrieves college football drive-level data including offensive/defensive teams, yards gained | | **Get field goal expected points** `college_football_data_get_field_goal_expected_points` | Retrieves field goal expected points values for various field positions and distances | | **Get fpi** `college_football_data_get_fpi` | Retrieves historical Football Power Index (FPI) ratings for college football teams | | **Get game havoc stats** `college_football_data_get_game_havoc_stats` | Retrieve havoc statistics aggregated by game | | **Get game media** `college_football_data_get_game_media` | Retrieve broadcast information for college football games including TV channels, streaming | | **Get games and results** `college_football_data_get_games_and_results` | Retrieve college American football games and results for a given season/week/team | | **Get play types** `college_football_data_get_play_types` | Fetch all available play types | | **Get player game stats** `college_football_data_get_player_game_stats` | Fetches detailed player statistics for college football games | | **Get player usage** `college_football_data_get_player_usage` | Retrieves player usage data for a given season | | **Get predicted points added by team** `college_football_data_get_predicted_points_added_by_team` | Retrieve historical team Predicted Points Added (PPA) metrics by season | | **Get pregame win probabilities** `college_football_data_get_pregame_win_probabilities` | Retrieve pregame win probabilities for college football games | | **Get recruits** `college_football_data_get_recruits` | Retrieves player recruiting rankings from the College Football Data API | | **Get stats categories** `college_football_data_get_stats_categories` | Fetch all available team statistical categories | | **Get team game stats** `college_football_data_get_team_game_stats` | Fetch team-level box score statistics for college football games | | **Get team recruiting rankings** `college_football_data_get_team_recruiting_rankings` | Retrieve team recruiting rankings from the College Football Data API | | **Get teams ats** `college_football_data_get_teams_ats` | Retrieve against-the-spread (ATS) summary by team | | **Get user info** `college_football_data_get_user_info` | Retrieves information about the authenticated user from the College Football Data API | | **Get win probability** `college_football_data_get_win_probability` | Query play-by-play win probabilities for a specific game | | **List coaches and history** `college_football_data_list_coaches_and_history` | Get coaching records and history | | **List conferences** `college_football_data_list_conferences` | Retrieves all college football conferences from the College Football Data API | | **List fbs teams** `college_football_data_list_fbs_teams` | List FBS teams for a given season | | **List fcs teams** `college_football_data_list_fcs_teams` | List FCS teams for a given season and conference | ## Example prompts **Advanced Box Score** > Use College Football Data to advanced box score and walk me through the result in plain English. **Advanced Game Stats** > Use College Football Data to advanced game stats and walk me through the result in plain English. **Advanced Season Stats Team** > Use College Football Data to advanced season stats team and walk me through the result in plain English. **Betting Lines** > Use College Football Data to betting lines and walk me through the result in plain English. ## ClawLink vs. building it yourself The alternative to ClawLink is usually manual API key setup plus your own token handling, permission troubleshooting, and tool plumbing for Hermes Agent. That is fine if you want to build and maintain the integration yourself. Most teams just want College Football Data working from chat. | | Manual | ClawLink | |---|---|---| | **Credential handling** | Collect, validate, store, and rotate the College Football Data API key yourself, then make sure every tool call uses the right account. | Users complete the hosted ClawLink setup once and the connected College Football Data account becomes available to the agent without you building credential management. | | **Ongoing maintenance** | You own refresh logic, permission debugging, environment config, and every provider-specific edge case for College Football Data. | ClawLink handles the repetitive integration plumbing so your team can focus on the workflow instead of the infrastructure. | | **Agent usability** | You still need to expose the right College Football Data actions to the runtime in a format your agent can reliably use. | 56 tools for College Football Data are already exposed through ClawLink, so the agent can read and act from chat immediately. | ## ClawLink vs. Composio Composio also exposes College Football Data to AI agents. It is developer infrastructure: Python and TypeScript SDKs, an MCP server, and a catalog past 1,000 apps, aimed at teams shipping agent products. ClawLink is built for Hermes Agent users instead. You install the plugin once, connect College Football Data in the browser, and the 56 tools above work from chat. There is no SDK and no config file, and the College Football Data key you paste at setup is stored server-side rather than kept in your environment. Choosing between them? Read the full [Composio alternatives](https://claw-link.dev/hub/composio-alternatives) comparison. ### Hermes paired but still can't use College Football Data Pairing is a two-step handshake: run `hermes clawlink begin`, approve the link in your browser, then run `hermes clawlink finish`. If you ran finish before approving, or the approval link expired, run `hermes clawlink begin` again to get a fresh link. Confirm the plugin was installed with `--enable`, then verify with `hermes clawlink test`. ### Connection succeeds but no tools appear Reconnect College Football Data from the dashboard, then start a fresh chat if the runtime still has the old tool catalog loaded. ### "Tool schema not loaded yet" error when calling College Football Data tools College Football Data tool schemas load on demand the first time a tool runs and are cached after that, so this error usually clears on its own: wait a few seconds and retry the same request. If every College Football Data call keeps failing with it in a fresh chat, reconnect from the dashboard, and contact support if it still persists — that pattern points to a configuration problem on our side, not something you can fix by reconnecting again. ### College Football Data returns 403 or "permission denied" on one action while others work Two usual causes. The connected account may not have access to the specific workspace, inbox, store, or project in the request — check that first. If access looks right, the agent may have sent a placeholder value (like "YOUR_ID" or an example id from documentation) instead of a real one: ask it to run a list or search tool first, then retry the action with a real id from those results. Most failures at this stage are one of these two, not ClawLink bugs. ### API key setup works but results look incomplete Double-check that the API key for College Football Data has the right scopes or account access. A valid key can still be too limited for some reads or writes. ### Is there a Hermes Agent College Football Data integration? Yes. ClawLink is the fastest way to connect Hermes to College Football Data: link your College Football Data account once in the browser and Hermes Agent can call the College Football Data API through 56 ready-made tools — no custom code or token handling. ### How do I connect College Football Data to Hermes with ClawLink? Install the plugin with `hermes plugins install ClawLink-HQ/hermes-plugin --enable`, then pair once: run `hermes clawlink begin`, approve the link in your browser, and run `hermes clawlink finish`. Connect College Football Data in the dashboard and Hermes can use it from the next message — no config files, and the College Football Data key you paste is stored server-side instead of in your environment. ### How long does it take to connect College Football Data to Hermes Agent? About two minutes. Sign in, click Connect next to College Football Data in the dashboard, authenticate, and Hermes Agent can use it from the next chat message. ### Why use ClawLink instead of wiring College Football Data up myself? The alternative to ClawLink is usually manual API key setup plus your own token handling, permission troubleshooting, and tool plumbing for Hermes Agent. That is fine if you want to build and maintain the integration yourself. Most teams just want College Football Data working from chat. ### Hermes paired but still can't use College Football Data Pairing is a two-step handshake: run `hermes clawlink begin`, approve the link in your browser, then run `hermes clawlink finish`. If you ran finish before approving, or the approval link expired, run `hermes clawlink begin` again to get a fresh link. 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