A look at Lee Corso, who is retiring, at Tennessee Vols football games with ESPN "College GameDay"

ESPN announced Thursday that broadcaster Lee Corso's final appearance on its College GameDay pregame show will happen on Saturday, Aug. 30. Corso has been a Saturday morning institution for 38 years and famously ends the pregame show by putting on the mascot headgear of the team he believes will win the marquee matchup of the day.

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.