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College GameDay: Lee Corso’s headgear pick for Ohio State vs. Clemson

Lee Corso is picking the Buckeyes to upset Clemson in the College Football Playoff.

The College GameDay crew visited State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, the site of the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl, where two of the most dominant college football teams in the country will face off for a spot in the College Football Playoff final. The reigning national champion Clemson Tigers are 2.5-point favorites over Ohio State, and Buckeyes star quarterback Justin Fields said earlier this week that his knee isn’t at 100 percent leading up to the game.

ESPN’s Lee Corso picked the Buckeyes to pull off the upset. In the history of College GameDay, it’s the first time Corso has selected the Buckeyes in a headgear pick as the underdog.

 

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College Gameday Staff Picks Camping World Bowl

As always, Desmond Howard, Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit gave their picks for all the games of the day and Notre Dame taking on Iowa State in the Camping World Bowl got a minute or so of discussion.

The final College Gameday for the year took place this morning in front of an empty University of Phoenix Stadium where Ohio State and Clemson will play for a spot in the national championship game later today.

As always, Desmond Howard, Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit gave their picks for all the games of the day and Notre Dame taking on Iowa State in the Camping World Bowl got a minute or so of discussion.

The picks went as follows:

Desmond Howard:  Notre Dame

Lee Corso:  Iowa State

Kirk Herbstreit: Notre Dame

What did Meatloaf say, two out of three ain’t bad?

Something like that anyway.  Enjoy the game!

Former Indiana head coach Bill Lynch discusses coaching career

Tennessee will play Indiana in the Gator Bowl on Jan. 2.

KNOXVILLE — Tennessee will play Indiana in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl on Jan. 2 in Jacksonville, Fla.

Kickoff is at 7 p.m. ET and the contest will be televised by ESPN.

Former Indiana head coach Bill Lynch retired from football last month. Lynch was DePauw’s head coach from 2013-19.

Lynch began his career in 1977 as quarterbacks coach at Butler. During his career he served as head coach for Butler, Ball State, Indiana and DePauw.

The now retired Lynch was Indiana’s head coach from 2007-10. He discussed his time with the Hoosiers, his coaching career and serving as Lee Corso’s offensive coordinator on the show ‘Tennessee Two-A-Days’.

The entire interview can be listened to here.

See Lee Corso’s headgear pick for the Army Navy game

Lee Corso is picking Navy to snap Army’s winning streak.

The Army Black Knights have won three consecutive rivalry games against Navy, but College GameDay’s Lee Corso, who was a Navy assistant coach in the ’60s, is picking the No. 23 Midshipmen to snap their losing streak in Philadelphia on Saturday.

Corso also picked North Dakota State over Illinois State, SMU over FAU, Boise State over Washington, Appalachian State over UAB, Hawai’i over BYU, Louisiana Tech over Miami, UNC over Temple, Wake Forest over Michigan State, Oklahoma State over Texas A&M, USC over Iowa, and Washington State over Air Force.

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College GameDay: Lee Corso’s headgear pick for LSU-Georgia

Lee Corso is picking LSU to stay undefeated and win the SEC championship.

ESPN’s College GameDay visited Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium for the SEC championship game between No. 4 Georgia and No. 2 LSU on Saturday, and Lee Corso upset the home Georgia crowd by picking the undefeated Tigers to win the SEC title.

Corso also picked Alcorn State over Southern, Appalachian State over Louisiana, Miami (Ohio) over Central Michigan, FAU over UAB, Boise State over Hawai’i, Memphis over Cincinnati, Clemson over Virginia, Ohio State over Wisconsin, and Baylor over Oklahoma.

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See Lee Corso’s headgear pick for Penn State vs. Ohio State

Lee Corso is picking the Buckeyes to stay undefeated on Saturday.

College GameDay visited the Horseshoe in Columbus for the only ranked matchup of the day, No. 8 Penn State vs. No. 2 Ohio State, and Lee Corso put on his favorite piece of headgear just before kickoff. After Ohio State legend and guest picker Eddie George picked the home team to win, Corso backed the Buckeyes to remain undefeated.

Corso also picked Yale over Harvard, Cincinnati over Temple, SMU over Navy, Virginia Tech over Pitt, Notre Dame over Boston College, Georgia over Texas A&M, Texas over Baylor, USC over UCLA, Iowa over Illinois and Indiana over Michigan.

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Chip and Joanna Gaines joined Lee Corso with Baylor headgear on ‘GameDay’

The “Fixer Upper” couple made a big entrance on a tracker with Chip behind the wheel.

Lee Corso and ESPN’s College GameDay crew were joined by two guest pickers in Week 12 who are practically as synonymous with Waco, Texas as Baylor is.

Fixer Upper couple and Baylor alumni Chip and Joanna Gaines showed up to Saturday’s broadcast, ahead of No. 10 Oklahoma’s game against undefeated No. 13 Baylor, in style on a tractor to make their picks. Unsurprisingly, Chip was super excited to be behind the wheel of that thing.

The Sooners are 10.5-point favorites on the road, and while Corso made his famous headgear pick, he did one of his classic fake-outs, first going with Oklahoma in what he called “an easy pick.”

But he quickly changed his mind in favor of Baylor, and Chip and Joanna joined him with some Bears headgear of their own.

Here’s a look at Chip and Joanna’s grand entrance to GameDay as well:

Their fandom for Baylor is well documented on HGTV’s Fixer Upper.

In 2017, former Baylor quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III appeared in an episode about renovating the house of a Vietnam War veteran. Griffin’s Family of 3 foundation partnered with the Gaines couple to make the project happen, and Chip geeked out over simply being in the general vicinity of Griffin.

The Oklahoma-Baylor game kicks off at 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC.

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