How to connect College football data to Claude Cowork

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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your College football data account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to show betting lines for this week's games, get TV schedule for SEC games this weekend, list advanced box scores for Ohio State, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting College football data to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your College football data account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to College football data or give it any College football data-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Show betting lines for this week's games"
  • "Get TV schedule for SEC games this weekend"
  • "List advanced box scores for Ohio State"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your College football data account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like College football data through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

What is the College football data MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The College football data MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your College Football Data account. It provides structured and secure access to comprehensive college football stats, schedules, advanced analytics, and recruiting data, so your agent can fetch game results, analyze team performance, retrieve broadcast info, and explore historical metrics on your behalf.

  • Retrieve game schedules and results: Instantly fetch upcoming games, past scores, and matchup outcomes filtered by season, week, team, or conference.
  • Analyze advanced team and player stats: Have your agent pull in-depth box scores, advanced metrics, and season-long analytics to compare team or player performance.
  • Access media and broadcast information: Quickly get details on TV, radio, and streaming coverage for selected games, including broadcast schedules and platforms.
  • Review team talent and recruiting rankings: Let your agent track composite team talent scores and recruiting class data across seasons for any program.
  • Explore historical conference and division data: Effortlessly trace a team's conference membership history, division alignment, and related metadata over time.

Supported Tools & Triggers

Tools
Advanced Box ScoreTool to retrieve advanced box score metrics for a single college football game.
Advanced Game StatsTool to retrieve advanced team metrics at the game level.
Advanced Season Stats by TeamTool to retrieve advanced season metrics aggregated by team and season.
Betting LinesTool to fetch betting lines and totals by game and provider.
Composite Team TalentTool to fetch composite team talent rankings by season.
Conference Memberships HistoryTool to retrieve historical conference memberships for teams, including years active and division.
Divisions by ConferenceTool to list FBS/FCS conference divisions with active years and metadata.
Get Drive DataTool to retrieve drive-level data and results.
Get Game MediaTool to retrieve game media information and broadcast schedules (TV, radio, web, etc.
Get Games and ResultsTool to retrieve games and results for a given season/week/team.
Get Player Game StatsTool to fetch player statistics at the game level.
Get Team Game StatsTool to fetch team statistics at the game level.
List Coaches and HistoryTool to get coaching records and history.
List ConferencesTool to list all college football conferences.
List FBS TeamsTool to list FBS teams for a given season.
List FCS TeamsTool to list FCS teams for a given season and conference.
List TeamsTool to list college football teams.
List Venues and StadiumsTool to list college football venues with metadata (name, capacity, location, etc.
NFL Draft PicksTool to list NFL Draft picks.
NFL Draft PositionsTool to list NFL draft positions.
NFL Draft TeamsTool to list NFL teams used in draft endpoints.
Play-by-Play DataTool to fetch play-by-play data for college football games.
Play Stats PlayerTool to fetch player-level stats tied to individual plays.
Play Stat TypesTool to fetch all play-level stat type definitions.
Player PPA by GameTool to retrieve player-level PPA/EPA broken down by game.
PPA Player By SeasonTool to fetch player-level PPA/EPA aggregated by season.
Predict Expected Points (EP)Tool to get expected points by down, distance, and field position.
PPA Team By GameTool to retrieve team Predicted Points Added (PPA) by game.
Rankings PollsTool to retrieve weekly human/computer poll rankings.
Elo RatingsTool to retrieve Elo ratings for college football teams.
SP+ RatingsTool to retrieve SP+ team ratings.
SRS RatingsTool to retrieve Simple Rating System (SRS) team ratings.
Recruiting Group DictionaryTool to list recruiting position group aggregations.
Recruiting Transfer PortalTool to retrieve transfer portal entries for a given season.
Returning Production by TeamTool to fetch Bill Connelly–style returning production splits by team and season.
Season Stats PlayerTool to fetch basic season stats aggregated by player and season.
Season Team StatsTool to get basic season stats aggregated by team and season.
Season Types DictionaryTool to list season types.
Team Matchup HistoryTool to retrieve head-to-head team matchup records over a date range.
Team season recordsTool to fetch team season records by year with optional filters.
Get Team RosterTool to fetch roster for a given team and season.

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FAQ

What are the differences in Tool Router MCP and College football data MCP?

With a standalone College football data MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of College football data tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from College football data and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Can I use Tool Router MCP with Claude Cowork?

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right College football data tools.

Can I manage the permissions and scopes for College football data while using Tool Router?

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which College football data scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

How safe is my data with Composio Tool Router?

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your College football data data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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