The last time ESPN College GameDay visited Norman, it was a new era for the Oklahoma Sooners. This time, though, it will be the beginning of a new chapter for the show.
ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit announced on Friday that College GameDay will be in Norman next week when the Sooners host the Michigan Wolverines for a primetime matchup between two blue blood programs. The show was last on OU's campus last season when the Sooners played Tennessee in their first-ever SEC game.
ESPN College GameDay heading to Oklahoma
College GameDay helped cover a historical moment at OU then, but now, that next trip to Norman will be like no other for ESPN in the show's 38 years. College GameDay's first show of the 2025 season on Saturday ahead of a top-5 matchup between Texas and Ohio State was the final appearance for Lee Corso, who made the show a college football Saturday staple.
Corso had one last show and headgear pick in Columbus, Ohio, which was the first campus the show ever filmed from, before retiring. Corso was a part of the original cast when the show first aired way back in 1987, and in 1996, Corso put on the Brutus Buckeye mascot head for his first headgear pick to start a college football tradition.
Although Corso has had to miss shows before because of health issues, next Saturday in Norman will be the first College GameDay without Corso as an actual member of the cast.
No one really knows how College GameDay will end without Corso's headgear pick. Will Pat McAfee make it his own spectacle? Will it end with the celebrity guest picker? Will the panel just simply state their picks?
Regardless, the new era of College GameDay will unfold in front of Sooner Nation, and the new way of making a monumental pick for the game of the week could even be for the Sooners.
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