Lee Corso’s College GameDay headgear pick: New York City

Lee Corso ended the College GameDay show in New York City in bizarre fashion. Find out what he did in lieu of the usual headgear pick.

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The headgear pick isn’t complicated. You get a loveable old coach to put on a mascot head of the team he thinks is going to win. But what do you do if there is no game? Being in Times Square gave Lee Corso and College GameDay their pick of the board.

Hey if nothing else, a return guest picker joined the staff while Corso was off preparing his pick.

The obvious first choice for the headgear pick would be to find a game close to Times Square. The problem is there really aren’t any, at least not at the FBS level. Fordham is an FCS school in the Bronx. They are on the road in Rhode Island, but their Ram mascot could be seen walking around behind the guys. Stony Brook plays Towson out on Long Island, and Wolfie the Seawolf was also in Times Square. Columbia plays Georgetown at home.

Rutgers and Army were possibilities. However, College GameDay has gone to the Army-Navy game the last three years. The Big Ten might want us to believe Rutgers is New York City, but as New Yorkers will never let them forget, New Jersey is not New York.

The other option was to just pick a big game, and there are some big ones to choose from. No. 16 TCU takes on No. 6 Oklahoma State, and No. 17 Mississippi State plays at No. 11 Georgia. Both of those games will be on ESPN.

ESPN’s featured game on ABC is No. 4 Penn State at Iowa. The Nittany Lions are 11-point favorites, but it is the primetime game that Kirk Herbstreit will be flying out to call.

Turns out none of the above:

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College GameDay was weird today, and this was a weird decision to close things out. We knew it wasn’t going to be a normal GameDay, but it definitely wasn’t different in a good way.