Lee Corso of ESPN's College GameDay will retire after Week #1 2025

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Corso, 89, will turn 90 before his final show.

The former Louisville, Indiana and Northern Illinois coach joined the network in 1987 after his coaching career was over. He’s been a part of “GameDay” ever since the show started traveling to different campuses in 1993.

That show was the first time Corso made his headgear prediction. A former Florida State football player who was roommates with Burt Reynolds, Corso put on a Seminoles cap as he picked his alma mater to beat Notre Dame as the show was in South Bend for the famous matchup between FSU and Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish won that game, but lost the following week. Florida State went on to be declared the AP national champions after beating Nebraska in the Orange Bowl weeks after QB Charlie Ward won the Heisman Trophy.

In the years since donning that FSU cap, Corso’s end-of-show predictions for the marquee game of the week got more and more elaborate. He commonly donned the head of a school mascot or appeared with an animal if the school he was picking had a live mascot.