College-football home-game demand calendar (2026)
Daily per-metro panel of NCAA Division I FBS home games (138 teams, ~130 US college-town metros, 2026 season incl. postseason): game counts by kind (regular/postseason), conference-game / ranked-matchup / primetime counts, neutral-site games attributed to the host metro, Friday/Saturday weekend and marquee flags, trailing-7d event density, a documented 0-100 local event-demand score, per-date cross-metro demand ranks and tiers. Join on date + metro to orders, bookings or foot traffic. Game dates/teams/venues are facts from ESPN's public scoreboard API (no login, key or clickwrap) -> commercial_use=yes with attribution.
- Rows
- 878
- Columns
- 20
- Source cadence
- Weekly
- Last refreshed
- Oct 1, 2026
- Theme
- economy
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | date | Game date in the venue metro's local timezone, ISO. |
| metro | string | Metro area of the home team's stadium (neutral-site games use the host metro). |
| metro_state_prov | string | State of the metro. |
| country_code | string | ISO alpha-3 country code (USA). |
| leagues | string | League with a home game (always CFB). |
| home_teams | string | Comma-joined designated home-team abbreviations. |
| n_home_games | integer | Home games in the metro on this date. |
| n_regular | integer | Regular-season home games. |
| n_postseason | integer | Postseason (bowls/CFP) home games. |
| n_conf_game | integer | In-conference home games (ESPN flag). |
| n_ranked_matchup | integer | Home games with either team in ESPN's curated top 25. |
| n_primetime | integer | Home games kicking off at/after 19:00 ET (national night window). |
| n_neutral_site | integer | Home games played at a neutral venue, attributed to the host metro. |
| is_weekend | boolean | True for Friday/Saturday game dates. |
| marquee_event | boolean | True if score >= 80 or any postseason game. |
| games_trailing_7d | integer | Home games in the metro over [date-6d, date]. |
| event_demand_score | integer | 0-100 local demand score = min(100, 30*n_home_games + 30*n_postseason + 20*is_weekend + 15*n_primetime + 10*n_conf_game + 10*n_ranked_matchup + min(15, 3*games_trailing_7d)). |
| demand_rank | integer | Per-date cross-metro rank (1 = highest score). |
| demand_tier | integer | Fixed-cut tier: 4 if score>=75, 3 if >=50, 2 if >=25, else 1. |
| row_hash | string | md5(date|metro|n_home_games|leagues|home_teams|score)[:16]. |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| date | metro | metro_state_prov | country_code | leagues | home_teams | n_home_games | n_regular | n_postseason | n_conf_game | n_ranked_matchup | n_primetime | n_neutral_site | is_weekend | marquee_event | games_trailing_7d | event_demand_score | demand_rank | demand_tier | row_hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-29 | Charlottesville | VA | USA | CFB | UVA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | true | false | 1 | 63 | 4 | 3 | 069b34c3d1c89232 |
| 2026-08-29 | Dublin | — | USA | CFB | TCU | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | true | false | 1 | 53 | 7 | 3 | 648ab52753427c74 |
| 2026-08-29 | Fargo | ND | USA | CFB | NDSU | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | true | false | 1 | 53 | 8 | 3 | 2d563b829790692d |
| 2026-08-29 | Las Vegas | NV | USA | CFB | UNLV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | true | false | 1 | 68 | 1 | 3 | b67de47be34f6ee3 |
| 2026-08-29 | Los Angeles | CA | USA | CFB | USC | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | true | false | 1 | 63 | 5 | 3 | f1901bc2a5c652de |
| 2026-08-29 | San Francisco | CA | USA | CFB | STAN | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | true | false | 1 | 68 | 2 | 3 | a1d409fe426a16ec |
| 2026-08-29 | Tallahassee | FL | USA | CFB | FSU | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | true | false | 1 | 68 | 3 | 3 | d80448a14b786e67 |
| 2026-08-29 | Ypsilanti | MI | USA | CFB | EMU | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | true | false | 1 | 63 | 6 | 3 | fa61d7046c41706a |
| 2026-09-03 | Atlanta | GA | USA | CFB | GT | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 48 | 3 | 2 | 7158dd52e967d1e6 |
| 2026-09-03 | Buffalo | NY | USA | CFB | BUFF | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 48 | 4 | 2 | d9b4afcedb4e913e |
Profiled Oct 1, 2026 from snapshot 20261001T190152Z-2dda6962f05a
Measured- Completeness
- 100%
- Rows
- 878
- Columns
- 20
- Columns with gaps
- 0
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| datedate | 0% | 59 | Aug 29, 2026 → Dec 12, 2026 | — |
| metrovarchar | 0% | 148 | — |
|
| metro_state_provvarchar | 0% | 50 | — |
|
| country_codevarchar | 0% | 1 | — |
|
| leaguesvarchar | 0% | 1 | — |
|
| home_teamsvarchar | 0% | 148 | — |
|
| n_home_gamesbigint | 0% | 2 | 1 → 2median 1 | |
| n_regularbigint | 0% | 2 | 1 → 2median 1 | |
| n_postseasonbigint | 0% | 1 | 0 → 0median 0 | |
| n_conf_gamebigint | 0% | 3 | 0 → 2median 1 | 6 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| n_ranked_matchupbigint | 0% | 3 | 0 → 2median 0 | 1 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| n_primetimebigint | 0% | 3 | 0 → 2median 0 | 1 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| n_neutral_sitebigint | 0% | 2 | 0 → 1median 0 | |
| is_weekendboolean | 0% | 2 | — |
|
| marquee_eventboolean | 0% | 2 | — |
|
| games_trailing_7dbigint | 0% | 3 | 1 → 3median 1 | 1 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| event_demand_scorebigint | 0% | 19 | 33 → 100median 63 | 10 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| demand_rankbigint | 0% | 76 | 1 → 79median 17 | 8 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| demand_tierbigint | 0% | 3 | 2 → 4median 3 | |
| row_hashvarchar | 0% | 1,095 | — |
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/cfb_home_game_intel/cfb_home_game_demand_daily" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/cfb_home_game_intel/cfb_home_game_demand_daily").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/cfb_home_game_intel/cfb_home_game_demand_daily
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title = {{College-football home-game demand calendar (2026)}},
author = {{College-football home-game demand calendar (ESPN)}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/cfb_home_game_intel/cfb_home_game_demand_daily?snapshot=20261001T190152Z-2dda6962f05a}},
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