BRISTOL, Conn. — The thing that makes Lee Corso so entertaining, so likable, is how nothing ever seems scripted. He never takes himself too seriously, whether during 28 years as a football coach or 31 years and counting on ESPN’s College GameDay, the past 22 of which have made him as much of a household name as you will find in the sport.



Ask him about his time as a player at Florida State, though, and 83-year-old Corso doesn’t really have a good answer for you.



“I loved playing it. We played both ways, and I did a lot of things,” Corso says, wrestling with the appropriate response. “If you look, I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna be, ah, I don’t wanna — if you look up all the things I did, I think there’s all kinds of records I set running, passing, catching, punt returns.”



Here he lets out a laugh, and GameDay PR ace Derek Volner interjects to say that Corso is trying to be...