{"id":164500,"date":"2025-06-28T05:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T05:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/164500\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T05:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T05:50:15","slug":"espns-kirk-herbstreit-disagrees-with-lee-corsos-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/164500\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit Disagrees With Lee Corso’s Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit Disagrees With Lee Corso’s Family<\/a> originally appeared on The Spun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit and Lee Corso’s family do not agree on the location of the first “College GameDay” of the 2025 college football regular season.<\/p>\n

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The Worldwide Leader announced earlier in June that the first “College GameDay” of the season would take place in Columbus, Ohio. ESPN’s “College GameDay” will head to Ohio ahead of the Ohio State vs. Texas game on Saturday, Aug. 30. The show will be the final one of Corso’s career<\/a>, who has been with the college football pregame show since its inception in 1987.<\/p>\n

The Ohio State vs. Texas game is arguably the biggest non-conference game of the season. Columbus, Ohio is also where Corso did his first-ever mascot-head pick. It’s a “perfect” pick, according to Herbstreit.<\/p>\n

“Perfect setting for one last ride! Coach\u2019s ‘First Love’ as he says!!” Herbstreit wrote on X.<\/p>\n

But Corso’s family seems to disagree.<\/p>\n

Corso’s family wishes that the ESPN college football pregame show would be heading to Tallahassee, Florida for the FSU vs. Alabama game. Florida State is Corso’s alma mater and where he began his college football coaching career.<\/p>\n

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The son of the iconic “College GameDay” analyst expressed his disappointment with ESPN’s decision to go to Ohio State for his dad’s final show.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a family of Seminoles, yes, it was disappointing, but at the same time, it will be fun to watch his last GameDay and headgear in Columbus.\u201d Dan Corso, Lee\u2019s son, told the Tallahassee Democrat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Corso’s family said his love for FSU was consistent.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was consistent with his love for FSU and the pageantry and tradition of college football, and on a weekly basis for 38 years, reminded everyone that college football is a great form of entertainment,\u201d Dan said.<\/p>\n

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His final show, though, will be elsewhere.<\/p>\n

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Regardless, Corso remains forever indebted to the college football pregame show.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy family and I will be forever indebted for the opportunity to be part of ESPN and College GameDay for nearly 40 years,\u201d he said during his retirement announcement. \u201cI have a treasure of many friends, fond memories and some unusual experiences to take with me into retirement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Corso added: \u201cESPN has been exceptionally generous to me, especially these past few years. They accommodated me and supported me, as did my colleagues in the early days of College GameDay. Special thanks to Kirk Herbstreit for his friendship and encouragement. And lest I forget, the fans\u2026truly a blessing to share this with them. ESPN gave me this wonderful opportunity and provided me the support to ensure success. I am genuinely grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It’ll be a fun final show no matter where it is.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit Disagrees With Lee Corso’s Family<\/a> first appeared on The Spun on Jun 26, 2025<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by The Spun<\/a> on Jun 26, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit Disagrees With Lee Corso’s Family originally appeared on The Spun. ESPN college football analyst Kirk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[331,20605,12,23077,7,10667,10751,49,48,36856],"class_list":{"0":"post-164500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-college-gameday","10":"tag-espn","11":"tag-espn-college-football","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-kirk-herbstreit","14":"tag-lee-corso","15":"tag-ncaa","16":"tag-ncaa-football","17":"tag-pregame-show"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114759429266401395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}