Overview

• Corso makes his last on-air selection on Saturday, Aug. 30, in Columbus before Ohio State hosts Texas in Week 1.
• He launched the headgear bit on Oct. 5, 1996, by backing Ohio State over Penn State, returning to the same city for his finale.
• Career totals tracked by Cole’s GameDay Blog list 430 headgear picks with a 286–144 record (66.5%), including a perfect 11–0 in 1999 and a 72% clip in the 2020s.
• His most frequent selections are Ohio State (45) and Alabama (38), with a documented home-team lean: he picked the host 62% of the time and hit 72% on those picks compared with 66% for road teams and 58% at neutral sites.
• Auburn is the only school that forbids him from wearing its mascot head, a quirk he has cited when avoiding Tigers picks, with ESPN airing a one-hour tribute and video retrospectives ahead of his farewell.