Lee Corso’s College GameDay headgear pick: Penn State vs. Ohio State

 Lee Corso made his College GameDay Headgear selection this morning. Did he take No. 2 Penn State or the sixth-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes?

Saturday is a homecoming of sorts in a year full of them for Lee Corso. He went back to Indiana and Louisville where he spent the bulk of his career as a head coach. This weekend is a throwback for his second career.

The first headgear pick ever on College GameDay took place on Oct. 5, 1996, before a game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and Penn State Nittany Lions in Columbus. Corso threw on the Brutus Buckeye head, and a legend was born. Will history repeat itself over 21 years and 300 headgear picks later?

Corso is 6-2 on the season after winning his last four games. The last leg of that four-game winning streak came last week thanks to the pick of the Nittany Lion head. He has already worn the Brutus Buckeye head twice this season. It proved a winning strategy in Week 1, but the Corso-backed Buckeyes were beaten by Baker Mayfield and the Sooners in Week 2.

Brutus Buckeye has been the headgear of choice 25 times prior to Saturday, making it the second most picked behind only Big Al of Alabama’s 27 times. Corso is 17-8 with those picks. He has picked the Nittany Lion just four times but is 3-1 in those games.

This is an interesting game for Corso to have to pick. A favored home team is kind of a no-brainer for America’s favorite mascot impersonator. He is a showman and loves to make the home crowd happy. Corso has picked just two road teams this season and all but one favorite. Ohio State is a touchdown favorite even though they are ranked behind Penn State. This gives Corso an opportunity to look like he is taking an underdog to those not paying attention to the oddsmakers and still take the home team.

Corso rocked a costume before he donned the headgear.

Let’s go to the pick:

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Corso unsurprisingly went with Brutus Buckeye for the 26th time but with a little pumpkin twist. He couldn’t let the fans down who braved the cold and varying degrees of precipitation from snow to rain this morning. Can the Buckeyes get their record back over .500 while playing for coach Corso? Or will the Nittany Lions snap Corso’s winning streak?