Lee Corso’s remote ‘College GameDay’ set included life-size cutouts of his fellow broadcasters

College football fans loved Lee Corso’s home “GameDay” set.

ESPN’s College GameDay returned to the air Saturday with a two-hour season preview show. But, as expected during the COVID-19 pandemic, things looked a bit differently for this broadcast.

The GameDay crew wasn’t on a college campus with thousands of rowdy students and fans raging behind them. (However, the show will be at Wake Forest next weekend for the Demon Deacons’ game against Clemson.)

And all the broadcasters were split up. Rece Davis hosted from ESPN’s studios in Bristol, while Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and David Pollack were at their “home” studios. And Corso’s setup, naturally, stood out big time compared with the others’.

Corso sat at a desk surrounded by life-size cutouts of his fellow broadcasters, and in the background, he appeared to have another cutout of Herbstreit pointing at (and maybe riding) an inflatable flamingo. And everyone had a good laugh over it all.

“Do you see that?” Corso said. “The crew did a magnificent job — in heat, Florida heat! Two or three days they worked on this thing. … A wonderful job of setting up my house.”

“Herbie, you look amazingly life-like on LC’s set there at his house,” Davis noted.

“I’m impressed,” Herbstreit said. “I’m impressed, he’ll put a muzzle over top of me or a piece of tape over top of my mouth there.”

Absolutely nothing is normal about the 2020 college football season, but with GameDay back and Corso up to his typical antics and jokes, fans loved it.

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