It’ll forever live in College GameDay lore.

You know. That time that Lee Corso dropped an F-bomb on Disney’s live airwaves.

The year was 2011. College GameDay was in Houston for a showdown between SMU and Kevin Sumlin’s No. 10 Houston squad. Olympic sprinter Carl Lewis was the guest picker.

What happened next was peak-Corso. An attempt to slow play his mascot head pick turned into him scrapping the idea and letting out a “f—- it” before putting on the Houston Cougars’ mascot head.

More than a decade later, former College GameDay host and current ESPN/ABC announcer Chris Fowler remembered his reaction in the moment.

“Disbelief,” Fowler told SDS in a recent interview on The Saturday Down South Podcast. “I heard it in my ear, but does that mean it went on the air? I’m pretty sure he said it because I heard it … we wear these airtight earpieces that block everything out or else you couldn’t hear yourself over the crowd. So when you hear it in there, you’re pretty convinced it went on the air.

“But then I saw Kirk (Herbstreit)’s reaction, and I saw Carl Lewis’ reaction, and I saw the crowd dying and I realized that was out there. What are you gonna do? You just laugh.”

(You can watch Fowler’s entire explanation of that from 20:40-22:46 in this video.)

Fowler explained what exactly led to said F-bomb.

“The reason why (Corso) said that was because he had some elaborate fake left, go right scheme cooked up — which he does pretty frequently these days on GameDay — where he’s gonna build up SMU but pick Houston,” Fowler said. “Well, the director wasn’t quite in sync, what he was talking about really wasn’t what was being shown to the audience, and at some point, I think he just felt like, ‘F it. Who am I trying to kid here? I’m picking Houston’ because that was the obvious pick in the game.

“What people don’t remember was that he tried to apologize the first time, and he comes out laughing … they tell him, ‘Uh, coach. Yeah, we gotta redo that.'”

Fowler also added that Herbstreit and Chris “Bear” Fallica flew out of Houston and landed in Eugene, Ore. for the USC-Oregon game they were calling that day, only to have coaches ask them questions about Corso’s viral moment.

Because hey, what else was there to talk about?