ESPN’s College GameDay crew visited Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on Saturday ahead of No. 12 Miami’s primetime game against Florida State in Week 4 of the 2020 college football season.
Led by senior quarterback D’Eriq King, Miami opened the 2020 season with a win over UAB before taking out then-No. 18 Louisville last weekend. King is among the early Heisman Trophy favorites, and against the Cardinals, he threw for 325 yards and three touchdowns.
After a rough season-opening loss to Georgia Tech, Florida State is looking to beat the Hurricanes for the first time in four years, and it’s an 11-point underdog.
So when it came to making picks, GameDay had ESPN radio personality Stugotz as the guest picker — about which he said, “How many names in the rolodex did you go through before you landed on Stugotz?” — and he went with Miami.
And for the second straight week, Lee Corso is going with Miami for his 352 headgear pick, despite Florida State being his alma mater.
For the second week in a row …
COACH TAKES THE U!! 🙌
(📍 @CoorsLight) pic.twitter.com/QxxwbQsvIK
— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) September 26, 2020
“Sorry, Noles, I’m going with the favorite! Miami!” Corso said on the broadcast from his home studio in Orlando.
However, he also predicted that Florida State’s defense will play “lights out and keep it close,” and he’s 6-2 in the eight times he’s picked the Hurricanes, per ESPN.
Corso also picked Georgia Tech over Syracuse, Cincinnati over Army, Louisville over Pitt, Virginia Tech over NC State, TCU over Iowa State, Oklahoma State over West Virginia, Oklahoma over Kansas State, South Carolina over Tennessee, Florida over Ole Miss, LSU over Mississippi State and Auburn over Kentucky.
The Miami-Florida State game is Saturday at 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC.
