How accurate are Lee Corso's College Gameday picks when it comes to Texas and Alabama?

College Gameday is coming to Austin as Texas prepares to face future SEC opponent Alabama. The ESPN college football preview show will broadcast between 8 and 11 a.m. Saturday before kickoff at Darrell K. Royal Memorial Stadium.

The show has been around since 1987, with Lee Corso playing a role on the program ever since then. A former college quarterback and coach, Corso is best known for his predictions he makes by putting on the head of winning team's mascot.

The accuracy of Corso's predictions have been tracked by Cole Reagan on his website, gamedaycole.com.  When it comes his overall game prediction average, he has an accuracy rate 66.4%, according to Reagan's analysis.

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Corso has made a headgear pick between Texas and Alabama just once. During the 2010 BCS National Championship, he said the Longhorns would emerge victorious, but Alabama claimed victory, 37-21. Here's how accurate he's been with his picks for both teams in the past:

Corso is more accurate with picking Texas football wins than losses

Corso has made headgear selections in 17 games played by Texas, making the accurate choice nine times, or in 52.9% of cases.

Of those 17 games, he picked the Longhorns to win 12 times, or 70.5% of the time. Corso was accurate in seven of those games, or 58.3% of the time. Corso has predicted Longhorn losses five times, and been right just twice, or 40% of the time.

But he's been right about picking a Texas loss more recently than a win. The last time Corso picked a Texas loss was in 2019 when LSU did go onto win the game. The last time he was right about a Texas win was in 2009 when he took the team over Oklahoma in the Red River rivalry game.

Corso picks Alabama football to win much more than to lose

Corso has made headgear picks in Alabama games far more frequently, choosing between the elephant head or their opponent 49 times. He's been accurate 31 times, or in 63.2% of cases.

Of those games, he picked the Crimson Tide to win 35 times, or 71.4% the time. Corso was accurate 25 times, a measure of accuracy that also sits at 71.4%. Corso has predicted a loss by Alabama just 14 times, or 28.6% of the time. He's been accurate six times, or 42.9% of the time.

Corso's last two picks about the outcome of an Alabama game were accurate, choosing Georgia to take the national championship this past season and for the Crimson Tide to win the 2021 SEC championship against the Bulldogs a month earlier.

Texas vs. Alabama game history dates back over 100 years

Prior to the 2010 National Championship, the Longhorns and Crimson Tide hadn't played each other since 1982.

The two universities have played each other in two Cotton Bowls, an Orange Bowl, and a Sugar Bowl dating back to 1948. Those bowl games were all won by the Longhorns, but the 1960 Bluebonnet Bowl ended in the only tie recorded between both teams.

The Longhorns are 7-1-1 historically against Alabama, recording their first ever win against the team on the road in 1902 by a score of 10-0.

This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Are Lee Corso's College Gameday picks more accurate for Texas, Alabama?