Hello and welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Ralph Rousseau here with Stuart Mandel and Bruce Feldman by colleagues and friends from the Athletic.

Later today, we'll get to your burning mailbag questions and we'll talk about Dave Portnoy, Ohio State, and all that drama going on in Columbus ahead of this week's big game between the

Buckeyes and Longhorns.

But first, Lee Corso is retiring.

Lee Corso has been a part of college football and a part of our lives for such a long time.

We can hardly remember, guys, a time before Lee Cororso wasn't donning a mascot head to essentially launch us off into a wild ride of college football Saturday.

And we'd like to sort of get into maybe some memories of Lee and why he has been such a special part of college football.

So Stu, Bruce, always good to be here with you guys.

It's fun to be sort of leading in the show.

I feel like I got my big boy pants on today.

How is everybody?

Yeah, hey, it actually went pretty well.

But let's talk about Coach Corso as far as like, you know, again,

what this person has meant to college football.

Yeah, I mean, I was just saying this to somebody else.

I just, first of all, your perspective is always based right on your age and when you start to follow college football.

And for me, it was right around the time game day started going on the road. And so I don't know at time in college football. And for me, it was right around the time game day started going on the road. And so I don't know at time in college football when there wasn't a Chris Fowler and Kirkhurstreet and eventually

Reese Davis live from a stadium somewhere. And then Corso putting on the mascot head at the end.

And when you think about the chronology of it, you know, college football, as we know,

for most of its history until the late 90s was a very regional sport, right?

If you're a Big Ten fan, you mostly cared about the Big Ten, et cetera, et cetera.

And it started to become more and more national once we had an actual

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