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Lee Corso makes his final headgear selection... and it's...

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Lee Corso, Texas Longhorns
Lee Corso, Texas Longhorns (Sara Diggins-Austin American-Statesman)

For his final headgear pick on ESPN’s College GameDay, Lee Corso donned the Brutus Buckeye mascot head and picked the Ohio State Buckeyes.

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The last pick, made inside Ohio Stadium, saw Corso surrounded by friends and family and in the middle of the field.

Corso and the Longhorns

  • Via the UT Game Notes
  • It’ll be the 11th time in the last five seasons that Texas will be appearing on ESPN’s College GameDay as the pregame show airs live from Ohio State University in Colubmus ahead of Saturday’s game.
  • Including eight visits to the Red River Rivalry and four neutral site appearances, Saturday will be the 28th time the GameDay set and its show will be a prominent fixture at a Texas game.
  • It will also mark the fourth time overall and secondconsecutive season a Texas vs. Ohio State matchup will draw College GameDay after the show aired live from the CFP Semifinal at the 89th Goodyear Cotton Bowl at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Jan. 10, 2025.
  • The show came to the University of Texas during the 2006 season when the Horns hosted the Buckeyes. College GameDay was in Columbus for the 2005 matchup between UT and Ohio State when the Longhorns prevailed 25-22.
  • Last season, GameDay was at five games the Longhorns were playing in. The five College GameDay appearances were the most in a single season for the Horns. GameDay was in Ann Arbor for Texas’ road win at No. 10/9 Michigan on Sept. 7 before the show returned to the Forty Acres for Texas’ home contest with No. 5/4 Georgia on Oct. 19. GameDay traveled to College Station, Texas, for the Lone Star Showdown vs. Texas A&M on Nov. 30, the SEC Championship Game vs. Georgia on Dec. 12 and the CFP Semifinal at the 89th Goodyear Cotton Bowl vs. Ohio State on Jan. 10.
  • 2024 was the third-straight year that GameDay broadcast at least twice in a season live from a game UT was playing in. The only other times that has occurred for the Horns was 2005, 2008 and 2009 when Texas made three GameDay appearances those years.
  • Texas is 13-13 all-time when the Horns are one of the teams in College GameDay’s featured matchup.

You could have made a lot of winning bets tailing Lee Corso’s headgear picks

  • Story from April

When it comes to the Longhorns, Corso was 10-7 when picking teams coached by Mack Brown, Tom Herman, and Steve Sarkisian. Charlie Strong‘s iteration of the program was never featured on College GameDay.

Overall, Corso was 13-13 picking games the Longhorns were involved in — a step down from his overall trend.

A 66.5% win rate gives credence to Corso’s label as an “expert” when talking about what was usually the most important college football game of the week. So too does his epic 1999, when he was 11-0. That includes GameDay’s first trip to Austin for a contest between the Longhorns and the Nebraska Cornhuskers, a game Corso picked correctly thanks to No. 18 Texas’ 24-20 win over No. 3 Nebraska.

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