{"id":313528,"date":"2025-11-25T21:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313528\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:44:07","slug":"lee-corso-opens-up-on-being-away-from-espn-college-gameday-in-retirement-it-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313528\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Corso opens up on being away from ESPN College GameDay in retirement: ‘It sucks’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year, Lee Corso officially made his final appearance on ESPN College GameDay after hosting the show for 32 years. On Monday, WESH\u2018s Daren Stoltzfus asked<\/a> the college football icon how the season has been for him without appearing on the show. As usual, Corso provided a hilarious response.<\/p>\n

\u201cLousy,\u201d Corso said. \u201cI hate it. I can\u2019t watch College GameDay. I just can\u2019t get used to it. I\u2019m not working anymore. I used to fly all over. It sucks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Corso began hosting the beloved weekly pregame show in 1993. He was most well-known for his legendary segment when he\u2019d put on the headgear of whichever team he was picking to win in the show\u2019s game of the week.<\/p>\n

Before joining ESPN, Corso served as the head coach at\u00a0Louisville<\/a>\u00a0(1969-72),\u00a0Indiana<\/a>\u00a0(1973-82) and\u00a0Northern Illinois<\/a>\u00a0(1984). He accumulated a career head coaching record of 73-85-6 and won two conference titles at Louisville.<\/p>\n

Corso and the College GameDay crew traveled to Columbus, Ohio, for his final show to cover the Ohio State<\/a>\u2013Texas<\/a> game. On the show, the crew always reveals their picks for the biggest games of the week. In his final appearance on the show, Corso was correct<\/a> on all six of his predictions.<\/p>\n

The send-off show averaged 3.5 million viewers across ESPN and ESPNU, making it the most-watched College GameDay episode in the history of the show. Viewership peaked at 5.1 million viewers in the final quarter hour, according to Nielsen Fast Nationals.<\/p>\n

While Corso is no longer on the show, his catchphrases and entertaining attitude lives on through the crew. Corso particularly has a special friendship with ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s unique is people see you with the headgear and all the silly stuff you do. But I think what we see is the smile every Friday meeting,\u201d Herbstreit said to Corso in August. \u201cWhether you\u2019re the makeup artist or Rece Davis and everybody in between, you just lightened everybody up. You lifted everybody up.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve done that, I\u2019m sure as a coach, but our experience with you, for me over the last 30 years, it\u2019s like, I\u2019ve never seen you have a bad day. If you\u2019re having a bad day, you never really showed you\u2019re having a bad day. You\u2019re always positive, and you\u2019re the backbone of what this show has been about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps Lee Corso can reminisce on good times this weekend while the ESPN College GameDay crew travels to Ann Arbor for \u201cThe Game\u201d between Ohio State and Michigan<\/a>. The rival teams will face off at noon ET on FOX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this year, Lee Corso officially made his final appearance on ESPN College GameDay after hosting the show…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-313528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}