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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 Madison, Wis., for the first time since 2011, on Saturday, Oct. 15, in advance of No. 2 Ohio State at No. 8 Wisconsin (ABC, 8 p.m. ET). The weekly show airs from 9 a.m.-noon on ESPN and will be set on Bascom Hill.
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:
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 7 will be headgear number 283 for Corso, as he is 187-95 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 put on Ohio State headgear 20 times – second only to Alabama (24). He is 14-6 when picking Ohio State, but Ohio State has lost two of the last three times he has picked Ohio State.
- He has also picked against Ohio State 14 times, which is tied for the second-highest number of times picking against a team. Corso is 6-8 when picking against the Buckeyes. He has lost the last two – and three of the last four times he has picked against Ohio State.
- Corso has picked Wisconsin four times, including the 2010 upset win over Ohio State in Madison. He is 2-2 when picking the Badgers and has picked against the Badgers seven times going 4-3 in those picks, but the Badgers did win the season-opener this year when Lee picked LSU over the Badgers at Lambeau Field.
- Corso is looking for his first three-game winning streak since the end of the 2014 season. He never strung together more than two-straight headgear wins last year.
‘The Bear’ College GameDay Fun Facts:
- This is GameDay’s sixth trip to Madison – and the first since October 1, 2011, when the Badgers beat Nebraska 48-17. Corso picked Nebraska that day and the 31-point margin of defeat is the second worst margin of defeat in any headgear pick. (It’s topped only by Oklahoma’s 35-point win over Oklahoma State last year in Stillwater when he picked the Cowboys).
- Wisconsin is 3-2 with GameDay in town and has won the last three times the show has been in Madison.
- This is the third straight top-10 matchup from which the show will originate. It’s the first time since 2012 that the show will originate from three straight top-10 matchups prior to the conference championship game and bowl season.
- This is the second straight year GameDay is in Big Ten country for Week 7. Last year GameDay was in Ann Arbor for Michigan State’s miracle win over Michigan. Corso picked Michigan that day, which snapped a six-year headgear winning streak in Week 7.
- Home teams are 4-0 this year with GameDay in town, and really 5-0 if you count Wisconsin’s win over LSU at Lambeau Field.
- The last 15 times GameDay has been to a top-10 matchup on a host campus, the home team is 13-2.
- This is the 12th time a top-10 team has hosted the No. 2 ranked team at a GameDay No. 2 has lost each of the last four times – Florida State at Louisville in September, Auburn at Mississippi State in 2014, Texas Tech at Oklahoma in 2008 and Michigan at Ohio State in 2006.
- Urban Meyer has won five-straight true road games with GameDay present with his last loss in 2007 when Florida lost 28-24 at LSU.
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