Mitch Vingle: WVU-K-State; MU, WVU hoops; and a lost poll

West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen is winless in four games against Kansas State.Ye olde notebook:

n When West Virginia hosts Kansas State in Big 12 football play on Saturday, it will do so as a slight favorite, according to Las Vegas oddsmakers.

The Mountaineers should be a favorite, just as they should have been last season. They lost to a physically inferior Wildcat team in Manhattan, which should provide motivation for WVU this time around.

Yet the WVU coaches should be even more eager to win.

First, there was that play call last December that had a gimpy Skyler Howard running on a fourth-and-2 situation instead of handing the ball to Wendell Smallwood, who finished with 144 yards rushing.…