Happy Halloween!

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Notwithstanding the scary events that transpired up in Oregon, I had a great Halloween. Loyette went trick-or-treating for the first time — she was a pirate — and seemed to enjoy herself a lot. (She also loved helping us give candy to the neighborhood kids.) Loyacita came along for the ride in the Baby Bjorn, dressed as a tiger. Both girls were adorable. 🙂 For my part, I followed through on my plan to dress up as a bandwagon fan:

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For those keeping score at home, nine teams are represented: the Red Sox and Rockies, by the pinned-together double hat; USC and Notre Dame, by way of the contrasting shirts and buttons (which say “BEAT NOTRE DAME” and “WE ARE ND”); Gonzaga basketball, University at Buffalo football, UConn, Tennessee and Winthrop. Alas, I was unable to work my t-shirts for Butler, Iowa State and the Missouri Valley Conference into the costume — and I couldn’t include such notable bandwagons as Boise State and BYU, because I don’t actually own any of those teams’ paraphernalia. 🙂

Anyway… our neighborhood is absolutely insane for trick-or-treating — we exhausted nineteen bags of candy in under three hours, at one piece of candy per kid. And that’s despite having to turn a lot of kids away during the period of time when we had run out of candy, and I was at the supermarket buying more.

I hope y’all had a great night, too. Here are some more Halloween pictures. If our jack-o-lanterns look a little droopy in the first pic, it’s because the melting snow softened them up a bit.

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That last picture is of the awesome ice sculpture/booze luge at the kickin’ party our neighbors threw Friday night. (With my mom visiting from Connecticut, we had a built-in babysitter.) Good times. 🙂

Tomorrow: the Requiem!

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RT @DanWetzel Terrible schedules, BCS formula has made everything moot as of 10/31. It’s going to be UT v. SEC barring earth-shattering collapse. … Barring upset by two touchdown (minimum) underdog, only two games matter in final 5 weeks of BCS chase: LSU-Bama, SEC title game. … Every week’s a playoff!

Oregon 47, USC 20

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Wow. I’m not surprised the Trojans lost, but I wasn’t expecting that. After eight years without a loss by more than a touchdown — a streak dating to when I was a junior at USC — we lose to the Ducks by twenty-seven?! Holy cow.

Putting it another way… Oregon beat USC by a wider margin than Notre Dame’s over Wazzu. WTF?

So: the no-blowout-losses streak is over. The Pac-10 championship streak is almost certainly over. The BCS bowl streak? We’ll see. It’s still not impossible USC gets an at-large berth at 10-2, notwithstanding the ugliness of this loss; they’d be eligible, but whether they’d get picked would depend on who they’re up against. They’re certainly in a weaker position than I anticipated. Holiday Bowl, here we come?

Meanwhile, it’ll be fascinating to see what the pollsters do with Oregon… and with Boise State. Although, with Alabama, Florida, Texas and Iowa all stubbornly refusing to lose, it may not matter. This is looking more and more like one of those rare seasons in which two undefeated teams actually meet for the BCS title, and the positioning among one-loss teams (and unbeaten mid-majors) becomes purely academic.

*sigh*

Beat the Sun Devils.