# How to connect College Football Data to OpenClaw (paste one key, 56 tools) > Connect College Football Data to OpenClaw 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/openclaw/college-football-data The usual route to College Football Data access for OpenClaw is an MCP server you configure and keep running, plus your own OAuth app or API keys. ClawLink gives OpenClaw a more practical College Football Data setup: install one ClawHub skill, connect College Football Data in the browser, and OpenClaw can call real College Football Data actions from any chat surface with no auth, token refresh, or tool wiring to build yourself. ## Setup It takes three steps to connect OpenClaw to College Football Data. 1. **Install ClawLink** — add the plugin to OpenClaw once. 2. **Connect College Football Data** — one-click OAuth in the ClawLink dashboard. 3. **Use it from chat** — ask OpenClaw in plain English. **Paste this into OpenClaw to set up ClawLink:** > I want to connect my apps to OpenClaw through ClawLink. > Please install the ClawLink plugin from ClawHub and enable it: `openclaw plugins install clawhub:clawlink-plugin` > When it is installed, tell me and stop. After I reply, give me the ClawLink pairing link. Setup notes, if you need them: https://claw-link.dev/skill.md **Alternative for any agent (no plugin needed):** if the OpenClaw 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 setup prompt above does all of this in one paste. By hand, it is one install command plus a browser approval: ```bash openclaw plugins install clawhub:clawlink-plugin ``` Then ask OpenClaw to set up ClawLink. It starts browser pairing and prints an approval link — open it, approve the device, return to the chat, and say `done`. Finally, 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 OpenClaw: > Use College Football Data to advanced box score and walk me through the result in plain English. ### Using a different agent? The OpenClaw 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 OpenClaw Looking for a College Football Data MCP server for OpenClaw? ClawLink connects College Football Data to OpenClaw 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 Hermes instead? The [Hermes College Football Data integration](https://claw-link.dev/hermes/college-football-data) works the same way. ## What the OpenClaw College Football Data integration can do 56 College Football Data tools are ready for OpenClaw 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 OpenClaw | 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 OpenClaw. 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 OpenClaw 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. ### OpenClaw installed the College Football Data skill but can't call the tools The ClawHub skill teaches OpenClaw about College Football Data, but the calls run through the ClawLink plugin and your connected account. Make sure College Football Data is connected in the dashboard, then start a fresh chat so OpenClaw reloads the tool catalog. If OpenClaw runs as a persistent gateway, restart it so the new tools register. ### 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 OpenClaw College Football Data integration? Yes. ClawLink is the fastest way to connect OpenClaw to College Football Data: link your College Football Data account once in the browser and OpenClaw can call the College Football Data API through 56 ready-made tools — no custom code or token handling. ### How do I add College Football Data to OpenClaw with ClawLink? Paste the setup prompt from this page into OpenClaw. It installs the ClawLink College Football Data skill from ClawHub, then you click Connect in the dashboard to authorize College Football Data. OpenClaw calls the tools 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 OpenClaw? About two minutes. Sign in, click Connect next to College Football Data in the dashboard, authenticate, and OpenClaw 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 OpenClaw. That is fine if you want to build and maintain the integration yourself. Most teams just want College Football Data working from chat. ### OpenClaw installed the College Football Data skill but can't call the tools The ClawHub skill teaches OpenClaw about College Football Data, but the calls run through the ClawLink plugin and your connected account. Make sure College Football Data is connected in the dashboard, then start a fresh chat so OpenClaw reloads the tool catalog. 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