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 early-season-maligned Chiefs are sitting 5-5 at just the right time this year, listening to the crowd ask whether the magic is on pause or gone. Indianapolis walks in at eight and two with the league’s loudest offense and a tailback playing like a metronome with teeth. Mahomes still owns the building, but Daniel Jones, […]
November 22, 2025
Fresno in late November is where Utah State has to drag its bowl hopes through the valley’s chill and noise. The Aggies limp in off a gut punch at UNLV, while Fresno comes off Boise and Wyoming beatdowns to stay on SDSU’s heels in the Mountain West race. Valley Children’s Stadium has become the league’s […]
November 22, 2025
San Jose State walks into San Diego with fresh bruises and fresh bosses on defense after Nevada dropped 55 and cost two coordinators their jobs. San Diego State comes home at eight and two with a title-game lane right in front of them and a defense people are already calling one of the best Aztec […]
November 22, 2025
Tiger Stadium gets weird in November when the stakes are more pride than banners. LSU walks in 6–4 with an interim coach, a top-20 scoring defense, and an offense still trying to remember what explosive felt like. Western Kentucky shows up 8–2 with an Air Raid label, a 31.5-points-per-game resume, and zero Power Four data […]
November 22, 2025
Madison under lights feels like a reunion and an autopsy at once. Bret Bielema walks back into the house he helped build, now wearing orange and carrying a ranked Illinois team that suddenly scores with ease. Wisconsin staggers in at 3–7 with one of the worst offenses in the country and a defense begging for […]
November 22, 2025
Nippert at night is a brick bowl of noise and bad intentions. BYU walks in 9–1, ranked just outside the blue-blood tier, staring at a Big 12 title shot and slipping into every playoff segment as the disrespected metric darling. Cincinnati arrives 7–3 with a quarterback playing like he’s allergic to inefficient snaps and an […]
November 22, 2025
Rice-Eccles is built for this exact afternoon. Utah sits in its new Big 12 neighborhood like a bouncer at the velvet rope, 8–2 and staring straight at a title path. Kansas State comes in 5–5, carrying all the hallmarks of a well-coached, flawed underdog: explosive on its good days, broken on its bad ones. The […]
November 22, 2025
Georgia Tech has built a top-20 resume by turning Bobby Dodd into a scoreboard, not a workshop. Pittsburgh arrives as the familiar villain, all stiff fronts and downfield shots, perfectly cast for November disruption. One side wants to protect rankings and trajectory; the other wants to prove the old bruiser still wins big games. The […]
November 22, 2025
Chiles Center gets a late game that looks thin on brand power and heavy on volatility. Cal State Fullerton shows up at 1–3 with one blowout win and three double-digit losses, the kind of résumé that hides how wild their box scores really are. Portland sits 3–1, fresh off a 37-point loss at Wyoming after […]
November 21, 2025
The Provident Credit Union Event Center turns into a late-night lab here. Southern brings another suitcase game and a chaos engine that just dropped 99 in double overtime at Washington. San Jose State finally tasted a win by hanging 110 on Bethesda and wants that to be a launchpad, not a mirage. This is SWAC […]
November 21, 2025
Walter Pyramid will feel like a hangar tonight, a little echo bouncing around a game both programs actually need. Montana State shows up 2–4 but already scarred by trips to Colorado, Stanford and Boise State. Long Beach State is 1–4 with only an NAIA win, still trying to climb out of last year’s 7–25 crater. […]
November 21, 2025