Lee Corso, 90, his set for his final ESPN "College GameDay" show and mascot pick Saturday. The tradition almost never happened.

Former Indiana football coach Lee Corso will don a mascot head for the last time on ESPN's " College GameDay " on Saturday, picking the winner between host No. 2 Ohio State and No. 1 Texas .

The 90-year-old is retiring after Saturday's show. He has been with the show since 1987, and has been donning the mascot head of his pick to win each week's biggest game since the mid 1990s.

The tradition started for an Ohio State-Penn State game in 1996, and no one was sure how it would go, according to "GameDay" host Chris Fowler.

"It was a tense negotiation with Ohio State to get them to give this thing up," Fowler said on the " Dan Patrick Show ." "(Analyst

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