Lee Corso will make one more headgear pick on College GameDay before calling it a career.
Corso, who spent almost 40 years with ESPN and College GameDay, will make his final appearance on the popular college football pre-game show on August 30. The destination for that edition of College GameDay will be announced at a later date.
Corso has loved every part of being on the show for almost four decades.
“My family and I will be forever indebted for the opportunity to be part of ESPN and College GameDay for nearly 40 years, Corso said in a statement, via ESPN. “I have a treasure of many friends, fond memories, and some unusual experiences to take with me into retirement.”
One of Corso’s colleagues, Scott Van Pelt, delivered a tremendous tribute for Corso during SportsCenter Thursday night into Friday morning.
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“For nearly 30 years, no matter where you were on a given Saturday morning in the fall, if you loved college football, you had one duty. Not an obligation, but a place you had to be just before Noon ET in front of your television to see who Lee is going to pick,” Van Pelt said during his “1 Big Thing” segment. “If you think about it, in this time of DVRs, that moment became the last thing you truly had to see live as it happened because it’s magic, it’s electric.”
“You wanted him to pick your team, of course, but you know, somehow it was even more fun when he reeled you in and then went heel. Watching it with tens of thousands of fans behind the set in the palm of his hand, there was nothing like it. And there’s nothing like him either. He is singular. Lee Corso is an absolute icon and star who will say his farewell to an adoring legion of fans at the end of August as the college football season kicks off.”
1️⃣ BIG THING: Lee Corso 🐐 @notthefakeSVP on how one legend reshaped college football Saturdays 🏈 pic.twitter.com/3LEKQgKQRW
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) April 18, 2025
It will be an amazing moment when Corso makes his final headgear pick in August. He has made 430 headgear picks since College GameDay added that segment to the show and has an all-time win rate of 66.5%.
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