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ESPN College GameDay Built by The Home Depot – college football’s longest-running and most-celebrated pregame show – will return to College Station for its fifth visit, on Saturday, Oct. 8, in advance of No. 9 Tennessee at No. 8 Texas A&M. The weekly show airs from 9 a.m.-noon on ESPN and will be located at Spence Park, right outside of Kyle Field.
The six-time Emmy Award-winning show is hosted by Rece Davis, who is joined by analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and David Pollack, as well as contributors Chris ‘The Bear’ Fallica, Jen Lada, Samantha Ponder, Tom Rinaldi, George Whitfield and Gene Wojciechowski.
College Football Live will air from the set on Friday with Ponder, Howard and Pollack (1:30 p.m., ESPN).
Corso Facts
Lee Corso & GameDay celebrate its 20th season of headgear picks this week
Corso began making his entertaining end-of-show headgear pick of the team he thinks will win the game at the GameDay site, marking 20 years this season. Week 6 will be headgear number 282 for Corso, as he is 186-95 all-time in headgear picks. The phenomenon began this week, on October 5, 1996, prior to the Ohio State-Penn State game in Columbus, Ohio when he put on OSU’s “Brutus Buckeye” mascot head to show his pick to win the game – watch here.
- Corso has picked Tennessee five times and is 3-2 in those five picks. He’s 1-1 this year, correctly picking them to beat Virginia Tech and incorrectly picking them to lose against Florida.
- He has picked against the Vols 11 times and is 7-4 in those picks.
- Corso has picked Texas A&M twice and the Aggies have lost both games. If he picks Texas A&M and the Aggies lose, they would join Georgia as the only teams Corso has picked more than twice and have not won a game when he has donned their headgear.
- Corso has picked against the Aggies twice, winning both of those selections.
- Corso is 3-2 in headgear picks this year, correctly picking Clemson last week. This is the first season in the last three years that Corso has a winning record going into Week 6.
- Corso has picked the favorite in Week 6 for six straight years. He has won four of his last five Week 6 picks.
- He is 1-1 in picking the underdog to win in the last two weeks. He has never picked the underdog three consecutive weeks.
‘The Bear’ College GameDay Fun Facts:
- This is the 5th visit to College Station for College GameDay. The Aggies are 0-4 with GameDay in town, with each of the losses coming by seven points or fewer. Texas A&M is the only school to host GameDay more than twice without winning a game in any of those instances. The Aggies also lost on the road at Colorado in 1995 when GameDay was in Boulder. Therefore, Texas A&M has never won a game with GameDay present at the site of one of its games.
- College Station is the site of the first GameDay show Rece Davis hosted. Rece hosted the show on November 4, 2006 when Chris Fowler hosted the Breeders’ Cup.
- True home teams are 3-0 with GameDay present this year – Louisville over Florida State, Tennessee over Florida and Clemson over Louisville.
- The winner in each of the last four games which GameDay has attended has scored at least 38 points.
- This is the 3rd time this season that Tennessee has been featured at one of the GameDay Prior to the show at Bristol Motor Speedway, it had been 67 weeks since the Vols were featured on the show. That appearance in 2012 was the Vols only appearance in 154 shows dating back to the 2006 season.
- In the last two years during Week 6, the game which GameDay attended was won by the home team by exactly six points – In 2014, Ole Miss defeated Alabama 23-17, and in 2015 Utah defeated Cal 30-24.
- The last two celebrity guest pickers in College Station have been Lyle Lovett and Jeff Van Gundy.
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