You can almost hear the collective pause amid the cheers that will sweep through parking lots this Saturday morning. The grills will still smoke, the marching bands will still rehearse, but someone will be about to leave the stage, and fans seem afraid to blink in case they miss the moment. For nearly forty seasons, he’s been the spark that flipped background noise into appointment television, the cue that a sleepy dawn had officially turned into game day.

That spark, of course, is Lee Corso, the grinning showman who turned ESPN’s “College GameDay” into college football’s rolling block party. He’s the one who asks for just five more seconds of suspense before yanking a foam mascot head over his gray hair. In Columbus, the very city where the headgear gag was born back in 1996, Lee Cor

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