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Headgear rules: Lee Corso, 81, signs extension with ESPN

Updated Mar. 5, 2020 2:17 a.m. ET

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ESPN has agreed to a multiyear contract extension with Lee Corso, the 81-year-old star of ''College GameDay.''

Corso joined ESPN in 1987 and has been part of the popular college football Saturday pregame show ever since. His head-gear game predictions, off-the-cuff analysis and signature line - ''Not so fast, my friend'' - have endeared him to generations of college football fans.

The head-gear picks started in 1996 when Corso donned the head of Ohio State's Brutus Buckeye before a game in Columbus with Penn State. He is on target to make his 300th head-gear pick during week six of the upcoming season.

In the spring of 2009, Corso suffered a stroke at his home in Florida, but returned to be part of the first ''College GameDay'' that season.

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