GameDayâs Lee Corso makes headgear pick, predicts CFP national champion; Here are the picks
Lee Corso was back on ESPN’s “College GameDay,” rocking headgear for the first time this college football season.
Saturday’s broadcast of the popular pregame show marked Corso’s 397th headgear pick since he started the tradition in 1996.
On Saturday, North Carolina and Drake Maye face Spencer Rattler and South Carolina in a big Week 1 showdown.
Prior to the broadcast, Corso announced his four College Football Playoff teams as Georgia, Michigan, Texas and USC. He picked Georgia to beat Texas in one semifinal and the Trojans to take down Michigan in the other one. He then projected the Trojans to beat the Bulldogs at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas for the national championship.
Corso, however, has never worn the Tar Heels headgear. Until today.
Check out how he, Kirk Herbstreit, Pat McAfee, Desmond Howard and celebrity picker Darius Rucker – a South Carolina fan – calls it.
Here are the picks:
LSU-Florida State
- Desmond Howard: FSU
- Pat McAfee: LSU
- Darius Rucker: LSU
- Corso: FSU
Duke-Clemson
- Howard: Clemson
- McAfee: Clemson
- Darius Rucker: Duke
- Corso: Clemson
- Herbstreit: Clemson
Ohio State- Indiana
- Howard: Ohio State
- McAfee: Ohio State
- Darius Rucker: Ohio State
- Corso: Ohio State
- Herbstreit: Ohio State
Tennessee-Virginia
- Howard: Tennessee
- McAfee: Tennessee
- Rucker: Tennessee
- Corso: Tennessee
- Herbstreit: Tennessee
Ohio State- Indiana
- Howard: Ohio State
- McAfee: Ohio State
- Rucker: Ohio State
- Corso: Ohio State
- Herbstreit: Ohio State
UTSA-Houston
- Howard: Houston
- McAfee: UTSA
- Rucker: Houston
- Corso: Houston
- Herbstreit: UTSA
Toledo – Illinois
- Howard: Illinois
- McAfee: Toledo
- Rucker: Toledo
- Corso: Illinois
- Herbstreit: Illinois
West Virginia-Penn State
- Howard: Penn State
- McAfee: West Virginia
- Rucker: Penn State
- Corso: Penn State
- Herbstreit: Penn State
Fresno State – Purdue
- Howard: Purdue
- McAfee: Purdue
- Rucker: Purdue
- Corso: Fresno State
- Herbstreit: Purdue
Coastal Carolina-UCLA
- Howard: UCLA
- McAfee: UCLA
- Rucker: Coastal Carolina
- Corso: UCLA
- Herbstreit: UCLA
Boise State-Washington
- Howard: Washington
- McAfee: Washington
- Darius Rucker: Washington
- Corso: Washington
- Herbstreit: Washington
Colorado-TCU
- Howard: TCU
- McAfee: Colorado
- Rucker: TCU
- Corso: TCU
- Herbstreit: TCU
South Carolina-North Carolina
- Howard: North Carolina
- McAfee: North Carolina
- Rucker: South Carolina
- Corso: North Carolina
- Herbstreit: South Carolina
Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim. He can be heard on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5 FM in Mobile or on the free Sound of Mobile App from 6 to 9 a.m. daily.