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Lee Corso will appear one more time on ESPN’s “College GameDay” before retiring. (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images)
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Lee Corso has one more show left in his “College GameDay” career.
The longtime ESPN analyst announced Thursday that this year’s Week 1 show would be his last for the network. Corso, 89, has taken a reduced role on the show in recent seasons after he suffered a stroke in 2009.
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Though Corso is not on set for all three hours of each “GameDay” episode, he still makes his famous predictions at the end of every show. Corso’s picks are well-known by nearly every college football fan and have often devolved into hilarity and hijinks. Here are some of Corso’s best picks from his over 30 years of traveling with “College GameDay” as it goes from campus to campus in the fall.
Corso’s first pick
Little did we know that Corso’s trolling of Notre Dame would be the indirect start to his prediction tradition. The first “GameDay” show that went to a college campus happened in 1993, when the show went to South Bend, Indiana, for No. 1 Florida State vs. No. 2 Notre Dame. Corso, a Florida State alum, put on a Florida State hat to pick the Seminoles over the Fighting Irish.
Notre Dame won the game 31-24, but lost the following week and the Seminoles got the last laugh. Florida State was declared the AP national champions after beating Nebraska in the Orange Bowl.
The first time he put on a mascot head
Three years later, the tradition of Corso putting on a mascot head for his prediction started when Corso picked Ohio State and put the Brutus Buckeye head on.
The accidental F-bomb
As “GameDay” was at Houston for a game with SMU, Corso grabbed a Mustangs megaphone to make his prediction. It was a deke, and he let some profanity slip as he tossed the…
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Author : Nick Bromberg
Publish date : 2025-04-17 15:03:00
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