Urban Meyer Confesses to Getting Upset by Lee Corso as He Ends 37-Year Tenure With Ohio State Bias

Lee Corso saved his final headgear flourish for an old favorite, sliding on Brutus Buckeye before a wall of scarlet in Columbus and closing the curtain on 37 seasons of College GameDay. Moments later, Urban Meyer, never shy about his Ohio State loyalties, admitted the choice still hits him like it did when he was a fledgling coach. “I remember back when I was a young coach starting out, it was a way of life,” Meyer said on Fox’s pre-game set. “If I missed the show, I’d nudge a guy on the way out to the field and ask, ‘Hey, who did Corso pick?’ And I’d be upset—‘Damn, he didn’t pick us?’”

Saturday, the retiring analyst finally did pick Meyer’s alma mater, his 45th nod to the Buckeyes and the bookend to the Brutus debut that launched the headgear tradition in 1996. Meyer grinned at the symmetry: “So it was a way of life for all of us. A class act and a true friend.” His words mirrored the mood inside Ohio Stadium, where the crowd roared as Corso donned the mascot he’s chosen more than any other and punctuated it with his signature wave.

Corso exits with a 286-144 record across 430 headgear calls; Ohio State fans will forever note he was 31-14 when siding with them. Meyer, meanwhile, said the ritual helped shape a generation of coaches. With one last nod to the Horseshoe, Corso’s 90-year run in football as a player, coach, and television institution takes its final bow, and even hard-edged competitors like Meyer confess they’ll miss the anticipation of that oversized mascot head every Saturday morning.

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