ESPN's College GameDay Heads West to the Campus of Washington

ESPN COLLEGE GAMEDAY Built by The Home Depot - college football's longest-running and most-celebrated pregame show - heads west to Seattle in advance of USC at No. 5 Washington on Saturday, Nov. 12. The weekly three-hour show (9 a.m.-noon) will originate from Red Square in front of Suzzallo Library.

The six-time Emmy Award-winning show is hosted by Rece Davis, who is joined by analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and David Pollack, as well as contributors Chris 'The Bear' Fallica, Jen Lada, Samantha Ponder, Tom Rinaldi, George Whitfield and Gene Wojciechowski.

College Football Live will air from the set on Friday with Ponder, Howard and Pollack (1:30 p.m., ESPN).

Corso began making his entertaining end-of-show headgear pick of the team he thinks will win the game at the GameDay site, marking 20 years this season. Week 11 will be headgear number 286 for Corso, as he is 189-96 all-time in headgear picks. The phenomenon began on October 5, 1996, prior to the Ohio State-Penn State game in Columbus, Ohio when he put on OSU's "Brutus Buckeye" mascot head to show his pick to win the game

Corso has never lost a headgear pick involving USC as he is 16-0 when picking USC and 5-0 when picking against USC. The last time GameDay was at a game involving USC, he correctly picked the underdog Trojans to upset Stanford in November 2013.

He is 3-0 when picking against Washington and is 1-1 when picking the Huskies (2002 loss at Michigan).

Corso has lost four of his last five Week 11 picks and he has picked the favorite in Week 11 ten straight times (6-4 record).

'The Bear' COLLEGE GAMEDAY Fun Facts:

This is the 13th time COLLEGE GAMEDAY has visited a Pac-12 home site, since 2011; The only conference to host more times in that span is the SEC (24 times).

This is the second time the show has visited Seattle with the other time on October 12, 2013, when the Huskies lost to Oregon in Seattle. The Huskies have also been featured in four road games, with the last coming two weeks ago in Salt Lake City 2003. Washington is 1-4 with GameDay

This is the 13th time GameDay has been to the site of a game between a top-10 team at home and an unranked team and the first since 2010 when Ohio State beat Penn State 38-14.

The top-10 teams are 11-1 in the previous 12 games with Iowa's 2009 win at Penn State the lone defeat. Only two of the games were decided by single digits - LSU's 22-21 win over Oregon State in 2004 and Tennessee's 30-27 win over Georgia in 1995.

Each of the last two years, the home team has lost at the Week 11 I site - Baylor to Oklahoma last year, Michigan State to Ohio State in 2014.

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