Dan Johnson has been an editor, writer, and analyst for DraftKings and DraftKings Network since 2024. He’s previously held editorial posts at The Paris Review, Macmillan Publishers, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, ASSIGNMENT Magazine, and FantasySixPack. You can find his various editorial work & writing (sports-related and non-) at all of the above.
The Baha Mar Convention Center doesn’t feel like a campus gym tonight; it feels like a November proving ground with hotel lighting and broadcast polish. Texas Tech arrives ranked fifteenth, lugging last year’s Elite Eight expectation and a roster built to live deep into March again. Wake Forest crosses the water with a nothing-to-lose resume […]
November 20, 2025
The Ocean Center is a different kind of neutral, more boardwalk echo than ballroom hush. Pitt trades steel gray for beach light and brings a four-game response after Morgantown punched them. UCF just drives down the road, chasing a Big 12 statement in its first Daytona game in more than sixteen years. This is the […]
November 20, 2025
T-Mobile Center gets a real November barometer here, not a made-for-TV walk-through. Nebraska brings an eight-game win streak and a grown-up offense that finally looks scalable in the Big Ten. New Mexico arrives in year one under Eric Olen, still carrying last season’s NCAA juice while a new roster learns its reads on the fly. […]
November 20, 2025
Houston gets Thursday night under a closed roof with both teams staring straight at the playoff glass. The Texans climbed from an 0–3 hole to even, surviving on a defense that plays like it knows the math. Buffalo arrives off a six-touchdown fireworks show, but this building has humiliated Josh Allen before and everyone remembers. […]
November 19, 2025
Week 12 tightens the noose. Fantasy schedules hit the must-win stretch while real locker rooms start counting tiebreakers on the whiteboard; every quarterback choice now sits on two playoff races at once. The AFC top seed is a knife fight—Patriots and Broncos both at 9-2, Colts lurking one step back—so every throw in Chiefs-Colts or […]
November 19, 2025
November in the MAC is where dreams and damage control share a sideline. Ohio walks in at 6–4 and 5–0 at home, still threading the MAC-title needle after letting Western Michigan slip away. UMass arrives 0–10, 0–6 in its first MAC run, carrying an average loss margin north of four touchdowns and little else. One […]
November 18, 2025
Late-season MAC nights don’t care about rankings; they expose which programs are actually climbing and which are just treading water. Akron arrives with the sting of the Wagon Wheel still fresh, an overtime collapse that also hinted at real offensive ceiling. Bowling Green jogs out under home lights with a four-game skid, a fired coordinator, […]
November 18, 2025
Oregon–Oregon State in November feels a bit too soon, but the rivalry bones are remain familiar. This is the 366th chapter of the sport’s most-played rivalry, with Oregon State still up 192–173 all time even while Oregon has ripped off eight straight. Both are 3–0, but the paths diverge hard: the Beavers have survived three […]
November 17, 2025
Jake Ferguson is the hinge (and safety valve, if we want to keep with engineering terms) of this passing game. In a roofed stadium with no weather excuses, his work is all nuance and timing. When Schottenheimer wants stability, the ball flows inside to No. 87 on sticks, seams and crossers that keep Dak on […]
November 17, 2025
George Pickens is the edge of the blade for Dallas on Monday. Under Allegiant’s clean air and fast track, his game becomes about space, timing and nerve, not wind or sleet. Schottenheimer’s offense tilts toward the perimeter when he wants stress, and Pickens owns that job with 764 yards and six touchdowns on 49 grabs, […]
November 17, 2025
Ashton Jeanty is the spine of Monday night for Las Vegas. Allegiant’s roof strips out weather noise; this becomes a game about repetition and resolve. Chip Kelly’s offense has almost no explosive cushion, sitting 31st in points and 30th in total yards, so Jeanty’s job is pure accumulation. Dallas just rebuilt its front after allowing […]
November 17, 2025