diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index 3e28791d9792..65cf23a6ea6e 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -9,6 +9,3 @@ google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-contrib/src/*   @pongad @jean-philippe-martin
 google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-firestore/src/* @schmidt-sebastian
 google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-pubsub/src/*    @pongad @googleapis/yoshi-java
 google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-spanner/src/*   @snehashah16
-
-# For anything not explicitly taken by someone else.
-*                                                 @googleapis/yoshi-java