Lee Corso’s farewell on College GameDay felt like the end of an era. At 90, Corso has played a variety of roles, including head coach in college football, Florida State ball hawk in the 1950s, and the man who always made people laugh on Saturday mornings. Nearly thirty years after his first headgear selection with Brutus Buckeye in 1996, fans would continue to wonder what mascot he would unveil. As Rece Davis puts it, “There’s no one more responsible for what GameDay became than Lee Corso.”
In a recent X post, Logan B. Robinson wrote, “FSU legend Lee Corso is expected to return to Tallahassee to be honored during FSU-Miami, per the Tallahassee Democrat.” So Lee Corso is finally returning home, and Tallahassee could not have chosen a better stage for it. When FSU faces off against Miami in