• Baby Mangino, you had a hell of a run. You achieved internet glory and are surely a robust and take-no-prisoners schoolchild by now. We wish you all the best, and must now pass your mantle to another:

Best Halloween costume ever #ThrowbackThursday #kstate twitpic.com/b59y5x

— D. Scott Fritchen (@DScottFritchen) October 18, 2012

• No. 2 Oregon 43, Arizona State 21. Stewart Mandel took in last night’s carnage in Tempe:

For exactly three plays Thursday, No. 2 Oregon looked mortal. On second down of the Ducks’ first possession, the quarterback fumbled. One play later, Arizona State quarterback Taylor Kelly threw a 28-yard touchdown.

“I don’t know if there can be a worst start,” said Oregon defensive coordinator Nick Aliotti. “And then we decided that maybe, possibly we wanted to play today.”

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• And now, an hour-long Oregon Trail video dedicated to the Red River Shootout. Would we lie to you, dearest readers?

• Every Game Counts, for some very curious values of “every.” The first cooing batch of freshly-hatched BCS standings was waiting on our doorstep yesterday evening, along with a note from Bill Hancock: ”The release of the first BCS weekly standings always creates great excitement for college football fans. Even though there are still almost two months to go in the regular season, everyone loves to talk about the standings and make projections for the postseason. Whether your favorite team is trying to qualify for a bowl game or trying to make it all the way to the National Championship Game, every game is going to count.” In related news, Texas will never not be ranked in the initial BCS standings, as long as we all shall live.

Ah, first BCS standings, a testament to nonsense math, Arrow’s paradox and secretary voters, brought to you by free golf for commissioners

— Dan Wetzel (@DanWetzel) October 15, 2012

We would like to declare our allegiance at this time to the idea of Kansas State winning a national title, because Bill Snyder hoisting a crystal football would bring joy to even the most pitted of hearts, from sea to shining sea.

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The Big East can give up on football entirely by adding lowly Memphis to its ranks. (Icon SMI)

• Realignment tidbits, grudgingly dispensed: Just plunge through all these as fast as you can so we can get back to talking about football: Here’s our most recently updated story on the Big 12 and West Virginia. That Big East-Mountain West-Conference USA superconference that was a story and then was not is now a story again. And here’s a fun story on how the Big East might just give up on football completely (the league would signal this surrender by adding Memphis to the conference).

• Fresh coaches, bought and sold: Jerry Kill’s new deal at Minnesota runs through the end of the 2017 season, which given the current state of the Gophers football program seems a reasonable time frame for a rebuilding effort.

• Quote of the day: “How will I explain to my children that their father never experienced the Beef O’ Brady’s Bowl?” — West Virginia raconteur Andrew Bernstein, lamenting (kinda) the Mountaineers’ looming flight from the Big East.

• Giveth, taketh: Trent Steelman‘s starting streak will snap this weekend, as he’s expected to miss the Army-Fordham game. Notre Dame’s Kapron Lewis-Moore is out for the season with a knee injury, as is UCLA’s Tony Dye with a neck injury. And Washington State quarterback Jeff Tuel, who fractured his collarbone on Week 1′s first series, continues to be dealt rough hands with reports he’s suffering from acute compartment syndrome in his leg.

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