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It’s the end of an era for early Saturday morning college football programming as iconic broadcaster Lee Corso is set to retire from ESPN’s College Gameday following the show’s Week 1 broadcast on August 30.
Corso was a former head football coach at Louisville, Indiana and Northern Illinois before joining the network in 1987 and has been a part of Gameday since the show started traveling campus-to-campus in 1993.
“My family and I will be forever indebted for the opportunity to be part of ESPN and College Gameday for nearly 40 years,” the 89-year-old said in a statement released by ESPN. “I have a treasure of many friends, fond memories and some…