ESPN announced on Thursday legendary College GameDay personality Lee Corso will retire.
The outlet says Corso will make his final headgear pick on College GameDay on Saturday, Aug. 30 – Week 1 of the 2025 college football season – at a destination to be announced later this spring. ESPN will also present special programming celebrating Corso in the days leading up to Aug. 30.
“My family and I will be forever indebted for the opportunity to be part of ESPN and College GameDay for nearly 40 years,” said Corso in an ESPN press release. “I have a treasure of many friends, fond memories and some unusual experiences to take with me into retirement.”
Corso was the head coach at Indiana for 10 seasons and led the Hoosiers to their first ever bowl win in 1979.
Last fall GameDay and Corso traveled to Bloomington when IU hosted Washington in late October. The Bloomington mayor proclaimed it “Coach Lee Corso Day” in his honor as friends, family members, former players and coaches returned to campus.
“When GameDay went to Indiana last season, the love and emotion that poured out from his players was truly moving,” GameDay host Rece Davis said in the release.
Indiana hosts Old Dominion in week one of the 2025 season, a game that would be unlikely to draw GameDay. The top games that week appear to be Texas at Ohio State, LSU at Clemson, and Alabama at Florida State. Corso’s alma mater is Florida State. He played football for the Seminoles from 1953-57.
Corso joined ESPN in 1987, following a 28-year coaching career at the college and professional levels – including 17 seasons as a head coach at Louisville (1969-72), Indiana (1973-82), Northern Illinois (1984) and with the USFL’s Orlando Renegades (1985).
Corso, who turns 90 in August, has been a part of ESPN’s pregame show since it debuted in 1987.
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