Earlier this year, ESPN’s Lee Corso announced that at 90 years old, he is hanging up the mascot heads and retiring from his post on “College GameDay”.
Corso’s final day on the job begins the 2025 college football season on August 30…at Ohio State – home of the champion Buckeyes.
For Corso, he will end his “College GameDay” career where it had started at Ohio State where in 1996, he premiered his famous headgear segment at Ohio State when they played the Penn State Nitty Lions.
Since he debuted his headgear segment, Corso has made 430 selections by donning the headgear of the mascot – in the case of Notre Dame he dresses as the leprechaun – and has selected the winning team 286 times. Corso has donned the headgear of 69 different mascots.
Corso has donned the headgear of Buckeye Brutus 45 times; the elephant head of Alabama’s Big Al comes in second with 38.
An alumni of Florida State University – he was teammates with Burt Reynolds – fans were hoping that Corso would finish out his career in Tallahassee at FSU.