On Thursday Morning, one of the biggest icons in College Football announced his retirement from College GameDay as he'll retire following the first week of the season. Corso has been a staple of College GameDay for 38 years becoming one of the faces of the sport leading fans into a great weekend every Saturday Morning.
When Lee Corso started making Head Gear picks the entire world started to tune in to see what stunt Lee Corso would pull next and which team he'd pick to win the biggest game of the weekend. Corso started making his headgear picks in 1996 first donning the Brutus mascot head picking Ohio State to beat Penn State.
In his career, Lee Corso holds a Headgear pick record of 287-144 correctly predicting the outcome 66.59% of the time. Lee Corso made his headgear selection 35 times for LSU football games with a 25-10 record. Among Lee Corso's losses, there are two times he picked against LSU and couldn't have been more wrong.
#2 1997 Florida vs LSU - LSU snaps Florida's massive winning streak.
In 1997, the #1 ranked Florida Gators came to Baton Rouge coming off of a National Championship season with a 25 game winning streak in SEC Play and a 9 game winning streak over LSU. While the Florida Gators passed for 346 yards doubling LSU's 173 passing yards, the Tigers picked off Doug Johnson 4 times including Cedric Donaldson's 31 yard pick six which gave LSU a 21-14 lead.
Before the game, Lee Corso picked against LSU and as the goalposts in Tiger Stadium went down so did Lee Corso's record.
#1 The 2008 BCS National Championship Game
Prior to the 2008 National Championship Game, Lee Corso picked the top ranked Ohio State Buckeyes to beat the LSU Tigers to win the National Championship Game. As Ohio State led 10-0 during the first quarter, Corso probably felt vindicated but, when LSU scored the next 31 points the Tigers quickly proved Corso wrong. The Tigers offense got outgained by the Buckeyes but, the Tigers defense was incredible forcing four turnovers giving LSU and Les Miles the National Championship.