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Since we have a long wait in front of us before life (or "football") resumes, here's a couple of predictions, based on what we saw yesterday and leftover items from the season:

Offensive MVP: Ryan Kennedy
(runner-ups: Bobby Chase, Tony Eckert)

Defensive MVP: Brandon Bonds
(runner-ups: Alvin Nnabuife, Rolando Humphrey)

Special Teams MVP: Chris McMurtray
(runner-ups: I don't know)

Newcomer of the Year: Randall Goode

Comeback Player of the Year: D.D. Lee

Offense MVP: Bobby Chase
(honorable mention: Cedrick Dorsey)

Defense MVP: Rolando Humphrey
(honorable mention: Justin Rogers, Don Ieremia-Stansbury)

Special teams MVP: Jessie Henderson

Newcomer of the year: Clayton Cox

Comback player: Richuel Massey

Brandon Bonds has done absolutely nothing in his SMU career to merit that kind of superlatives. Does he have even 10 tackles or 1 sack? I'm serious-I thought the guy STILL looks very poorly conditioned. I'd like to see him make a big play first before we start nominating him for MVP.

He looks a hell of a lot thinner and quicker, and with Adami gone and Jones coming off a knee injury, Bonds is going to have to play a lot more. He played pretty well the other day -- at least a couple of tackles in the backfield. You're right -- he's never going to look like Devin Lowery or Ryan Mentzel, size-wise, but you have to admit he looks much better than last year.