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.
Neyland will shake, but the story walking in belongs to Vanderbilt, the supposed little brother rolling in ranked higher with everything still on the table. One win keeps a slim playoff alley open and keeps Diego Pavia’s Heisman drum pounding through championship week. Tennessee gets the familiar role: defend the house, defend the pecking order, […]
November 29, 2025
Waco gets a gut check for Rivalry Week. McLane Stadium hosts a bowl-or-bust Baylor team trying to salvage 6–6 while an 8–3 Houston group hunts a five-win jump and a statement road finish. The Cougars have a chance to close 6–0 away from home, matching some of the best travel years in school history. Baylor’s […]
November 29, 2025
Week 13 waddles through the doorway, gravy-stained, credit cards smoking, bankrolls bruised or swollen. Four games are already graded into your psyche—Packers–Lions, Ravens–Bengals, Cowboys–Chiefs, Bears–Eagles on Black Friday—and every league has that guy sitting at 92 points with three players already done. The rest of us wake up in the wreckage: half a lineup locked, […]
November 29, 2025
Week 13 waddles through the doorway, gravy-stained, credit cards smoking, bankrolls bruised or swollen. Four games are already graded into your psyche—Packers–Lions, Ravens–Bengals, Cowboys–Chiefs, Bears–Eagles on Black Friday—and every league has that guy sitting at 92 points with three players already done. The rest of us wake up in the wreckage: half a lineup locked, […]
November 28, 2025
Week 13 waddles through the doorway, gravy-stained, credit cards smoking, bankrolls bruised or swollen. Four games are already graded into your psyche—Packers–Lions, Ravens–Bengals, Cowboys–Chiefs, Bears–Eagles on Black Friday—and every league has that guy sitting at 92 points with three players already done. The rest of us wake up in the wreckage: half a lineup locked, […]
November 28, 2025
Week 13 waddles through the doorway, gravy-stained, credit cards smoking, bankrolls bruised or swollen. Four games are already graded into your psyche—Packers–Lions, Ravens–Bengals, Cowboys–Chiefs, Bears–Eagles on Black Friday—and every league has that guy sitting at 92 points with three players already done. The rest of us wake up in the wreckage: half a lineup locked, […]
November 28, 2025
Logan turns this into more than another Mountain West matinee. Boise State shows up at 7–4, still circling a path to the title game and trying to protect a decade of dominance in this matchup. Utah State walks in 6–5, bowl bid already secured, but chasing a perfect home season and one last statement before […]
November 28, 2025
DATCU Stadium turns into a scoreboard check for both programs, not just another AAC Saturday. North Texas walks in with 10 wins, the league’s most violent offense, and a title shot on the table. Temple arrives fighting for bowl life at 5–6, fully aware that four quarters of real offense can keep this season alive […]
November 28, 2025
Mercedes-Benz Stadium turns Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate into a playoff stress test this afternoon. Georgia arrives 10-1, chasing seeding leverage. Georgia Tech brings 9-2 and one chance to wreck their neighbor’s whole December. These helmets usually meet on a campus lawn; tonight the rivalry drops into a downtown spotlight built for January. Indoors, with both offenses […]
November 28, 2025
Black Friday in Lincoln feels less like a party and more like a repeat stress test. Nebraska and Iowa both sit 7-4, both chasing 8-4 and an upper-tier bowl, but only one fanbase keeps reliving the same ending. Iowa has taken 10 of 14 since joining the Big Ten and hasn’t lost in Lincoln since […]
November 28, 2025
Black Friday in Philadelphia should be meaningful-football showcase & theater. Chicago walks in at 8-3, the new-blood contender that’s spent two months stealing one-score games. The Eagles match that 8-3 record but return home off a blown twenty-one point lead in Dallas. Lincoln Financial will feel like January anyway, with top-seed leverage hanging over every […]
November 28, 2025