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Oklahoma State and Alabama highlight our extremely serious 2017 midseason awards

Surprises, crushes, movers, blowouts, and more!

On the latest Wake Up, College Football, Dan and Richard approach the halfway point of the season in a very serious, measured way and figure out who deserves to be awarded for the following categories:

• Who were we most wrong about preseason? Florida State? USC? Stanford? Clemson? Oregon? UCLA? Boise State?

• Who’s the biggest surprise at the midseason point? Auburn? Oklahoma? Washington State? Iowa State?

• If you could have any active college football player help you move homes, who would you choose? A versatile player to help with moving and setup? A bigger player for pure strength? A shorter player for ideal center of gravity?

• What’s your favorite blowout of the early season? Any of Alabama’s or Clemson’s? Oklahoma’s or Oklahoma State’s? Ohio State domination? Another team’s?

• Who’s your early crush of the 2017 season? Hercules Mata’afa? Josh Rosen? Joel Lanning? Saquon Barkley? Baker Mayfield? Derrius Guice? Someone else?

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