Lee Corso is mysteriously absent from College GameDay and the trend isn't great

Lee Corso is making college football fans uneasy for the second straight season.

The ESPN College GameDay legend is expected to miss his second straight show today – this time from Eugene, Oregon. According to GameDay host Rece Davis, Corso, 89, missed last week's show at Cal Berkeley for “health reasons.”

This was GameDay's first trip to Berkeley. However, Corso and GameDay are no strangers to Eugene, where they have been dozens of times over the past few decades. It's one of Corso's favorite spots, according to Reese, who let the cat out of the bag on Friday that the longtime analyst would be missing this week as well

“He won’t be here this week. He's doing better. He’s been a little under the weather the last few weeks,” Davis told Duck’s Wire Zac Neel.

“I spoke to him earlier and he said he was sorry that he was missing his best friend, the duck.”

Lee Corso has college football fans nervous

Not great, Zach! Not great at all.

Look, Lee Corso is a billion. Not really, he's 89, but still – that's basically a billion in years. Flying him from Orlando to California isn't exactly a good idea. He would have had to fly west two weeks in a row if he had made the trip last week too, which would have been a difficult task.

I said it last week and still somewhat stick with it now – I think Lee just isn't interested in flying all that far for College GameDay anymore. I don't. Would you?

Could you imagine leaving your nice, cozy home in Central Florida to fly five hours to the West Coast to do a show at 3 a.m.?

Yuck. No shot. Now imagine being 89 years old and trying to do all of that. No thanks.

Lee really struggled with the season in 2022, but he finished strong after missing several weeks early on. Last year his participation was almost flawless, which was nice to see.

This year, however, it was a bit iffy. Actually – very questionable.

He didn't go to Dublin in week 0, he went to California last week, and now he's… under the weather again…

I tied it back to the trip last week and will do it again here. But if this nasty little trend continues, it might be time to sound the alarm.

I'm not alone with this either: