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ESPN's College GameDay will be on site for the Ohio State-Michigan State game this weekend in East Lansing. Co-host Lee Corso donned the mascot head of the Buckeyes before last season's Big Ten championship game in Indianapolis, drawing some laughs from fellow co-host and former Ohio State quarterback Kirk Herbstreit.

(Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)

EAST LANSING -- ESPN's "College GameDay" show is headed to Spartan Stadium for Saturday's 8 p.m. showdown between Michigan State and Ohio State.

The Spartans (7-1, 4-0 Big Ten) and Buckeyes (7-1, 4-0) will meet in a game that likely will determine the Big Ten East Division winner, which would advance to play in the Big Ten championship game in Indianapolis on Dec. 6.

It's the third straight year College GameDay has been on site for the football meeting between Michigan State and Ohio State.

ESPN's popular pregame production was on hand the last time the teams played in East Lansing (Sept. 29, 2012), and it also was on site when the teams met in last season's Big Ten championship game on Dec. 7, 2013.

The show, featuring Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Desmond Howard, Samantha Ponder and David Pollack, had a clever skit Saturday featuring a Halloween-themed parody on coaches of top-ranked teams, including MSU's Mark Dantonio.

This Saturday's game will mark the first time College GameDay has been on a Big Ten campus this season, though the ESPN show was present in Eugene, Ore., on Sept. 6, before the Spartans lost to the Ducks, 46-29.

This will be the seventh time Michigan State has hosted ESPN's College GameDay, a mark bettered only by Ohio State (13) and Michigan (11) in the Big Ten.

It will be the fourth time the Spartans have played at the College GameDay site over the past two seasons, as the ESPN show was also set up at the Rose Bowl.

College GameDay began setting up outside of stadiums on game weekends in 1993.