If college football handed out , here would be the midseason favorites to take home those prizes:MVP - Trevone Boykin, TCU The MVP question is always debatable, but the defining criteria is always this: Where would the team be without a particular player? Apply that to TCU and Wilson Chandler Jersey Boykin, and the answer is easy. The Horned Frogs would be a shell of themselves offensively without the senior quarterback, who is on a pace for 4,938 total yards in the regular season, and their College Football Playoff hopes would be nil.Offensive Player of the Year - Leonard Fournette, LSU The Tigers' sophomore rusher has been on a season-long tear that has him squarely in the Heisman Trophy conversation. He's already over 1,000 yards for the year (1,022), and although the schedule toughens late, 2,000 isn't out of his reach. Defensive Player of the Year - Karl Joseph, West Virginia Yes, with a knee injury. But this is a midseason awards list, and nobody in the country played better defense in the first half of the season than the Mountaineers' safety. He picked off five pa ses in just four games and showed all the leadership that was expected of an experienced senior.Offensive Rookie of the Year - Christian Kirk, Texas A&M With apologies to UCLA's budding star at quarterback, Josh Rosen, Kirk's impact at TAMU has been remarkable. He's emerged as the No. 1 receiving target for Kyle Allen on an undefeated team (32-519-4), and he's managed to do it on a team already loaded with receiving talent. Add to that, he leads the entire country in punt returns with an eye-popping 27-yard average.Defensive Rookie of the Year - Cameron Smith, USC How many freshmen lead a Power Jordan Bowden Jersey Five school in tackles? Smith is well on his way to doing just that, having piled up 42 stops, 11 more than the team's best defensive uppercla sman, Su'a Cravens. There are those who have made more big plays -- Mi souri's Walter Brady already has six sacks -- but Smith's has been the more consistent down-to-down presence at linebacker.Coach of the Year Nate Sestina Jersey - Jim McElwain, Florida There's one team in that nobody saw coming in August, and it's the Gators. At 6-0, Jim McElwain has made believers out of a team that didn't know what to believe a year ago under Will Muschamp. McElwain's managed to win despite an offensive line that looked in the spring like it could be one of the SEC's worst, plus a youngster at quarterback.Comeback Player of the Year - Deshaun Watson, Clemson After a series of injuries last year finally ended with a serious one (torn ACL), the dual-threat sophomore quarterback came back this year without any lingering effects. He's completed 69 percent of his pa ses in leading the Tigers to a 5-0 mark, and in the only game he struggled to throw (against Notre Dame) he made up for it with his best rushing performance of the year.Other superlatives and notables of the first half of the season:Most overhyped - Devonte Fields, Louisville If you thought the transfer defensive end would be able to summon his 2012 form, when he was the Big 12 Freshman of the Year at TCU, for Bobby Petrino, you thought wrong. Fields is still looking for his first sack.Most underrated - Josh Jamal Crawford Jersey Reynolds, Texas A&M On a team with Speedy Noil, the aforementioned Christian Kirk and other impre sive receiving talents, Reynolds' consistent production is too easily overlooked. He's averaging 21.5 yards per catch, best on the Aggies roster.Most overrated team - Oregon So much for the notion that Vernon Adams would step right in for and keep the team in Pac-12 contention.Most underrated team - Michigan The Wolverines defense has grown into a lights-out group as Jim Harbaugh continues to lead a first-year turnaround.Best JuCo transfer - Chad Kelly, Ole Mi s The nephew of quarterback Jim Kelly can make every throw on the field with real velocity, and has the weapons around him to beat anybody.Three most costly injuries - Taysom Hill, BYU QB; Myles Jack, UCLA LB Reggie Perry Jersey ; Karl Joseph, West Virginia DB It's been a brutal first half of the season where injuries are concerned, but these three probably dealt the biggest blows to the team. All three are done for the season.Follow Chase Goodbread on Twitter .