Viewpoint: ESPN's Lee Corso is back and also university football is better for it.

University football will formally return at concerning 11:53 a.m. Saturday. That's when an 86-year-old guy will certainly place on a mascot head. Lee Corso will be back. For at the very least one crazy minute, all will be ideal with the globe.

" It has to do with time," he stated. Corso, certainly, is the guy underneath the mascot heads. He's gone to it for 3 decades on ESPN's "College GameDay," capping that early morning's festivities by placing on a Trojan headgear or Gator head or some other apparatus to predict that day's winner. The show has actually become an event unto itself. If ESPN develops a "GameDay" set near your arena, you are the center of the university football world. This week's center is Atlanta, where Alcorn State will play North Carolina Central. It's billed as "Week 0," ESPN's yearly nod to colleges that do not get much spotlight. POWER FIVE COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Michigan State, Kansas, Arizona amongst 10 worst teams OPINION: All that's riding on Big Ten-Pac 12-ACC alliance is future of university sports Week 1 will certainly be Charlotte, and the Clemson-Georgia face-off. Week 3 will probably be in Gainesville, when Alabama pertains to town. Delta rise eager, Corso will certainly exist. " The first 2 weeks of the period, we'll certainly get on the road," he stated. "After that, I might need to reassess depending upon problems." Consider that one more reason to hope the pandemic brighten up. It sapped the life out of last period. Games went on, however they did not have fans, excitement, pomp, situation and also delightfulness. Corso is all those things in one irrepressible plan. However in pre-vaccine 2020, it was too dangerous for that plan to hit the trail. "GameDay" continued, playing to vacant parking lots while Corso hunkered down in his Orlando residence. It resembled a regular family get-together without every person's preferred uncle.