NFL quarterback legend Brett Favre was a no-show for ESPN’s College GameDay in Tallahassee , Fla.

Host Chris Fowler said Favre was unable to make the trip to Florida State, where the Seminoles will host Notre Dame on ABC tonight at 8 p.m. (ET) in a battle of unbeatens, due to a mechanical problem with his flight.

That left Ken Griffey as the sole guest picker, and while he lacked the freewheeling style of Katy Perry on Oct. 4 at The Grove in Oxford, Miss., the future MLB Hall of Famer was more sympatico with GameDay doyen, Lee Corso.

For the record, Griffey matched Corso’s selections on seven of nine games, including two that favored geography. Most notably, The Kid, an Orlando resident, played it Sunshine State smart, picking Florida over Missouri and the Seminoles over the Fighting Irish.

On Saturday Corso, noting that his first live rroad show selection (pictured) for ESPN dated to FSU-ND undefeated matchup on Nov. 13, 1993, donned a wig redolent of the black Seminole hairdress and a red baseball cap, signifying his belief in Jumbo Fisher and his beleaguered quarterback, 2013 Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston.

Corso, a FSU football and baseball player and pigskin coach back in the day, didn't mention that he missed with his Seminole nod as the Irish prevailed 31-24, in South Bend that day.

Griffey, who was in Tallahassee because his son Trey's Arizona Wildcats are on bye week, recused himself from making a call on the game involving Zona's Pac-12 compatriots and rivals, Stanford and Arizona State, saying he wished there was a way that they played long enough, so both “could lose.”

Neither has the current appeal or perkiness of Katy Perry, but ESPN has reached out to a pair of sports legends as its guest pickers for College GameDay.

Lee Corso, Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard and crew are encamped in Tallahassee, where they will be joined by NFL ironman QB Brett Favre and The Kid, MLB icon Ken Griffey, Jr.

The duo will be asked to weigh in on their picks in the battle of unbeatens: No. 2 Florida State and No. 5 Notre Dame. ABC will televise the action on Oct. 18 at 8 p.m.

Favre, who beat FSU as a member of Southern Mississippi in 1989 and created headlines for sexting former Seminoles student Jenn Sterger when both were New York Jets employees in 2008, and Griffey follow Jonathan Papelbon to the GameDay stage. Last week, the Mississippi State alum was resplendent in his Mississippi State red suit and bulldog in Starkville, a far cry from the lack of decorum he displayed late in the 2014 MLB season.

As ESPN raised the parlor game concerning whom will become the latest addition to GameDay’s guest picker roster, it will be hard-pressed to find the combination of pretty, sass and fun Perry displayed at The Grove on Oct. 4. Among other Perry pearls, her message to fans of the LSU Tigers: let them eat corndogs.