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.
Tottenham wakes early—stateside speaking—for a bruiser. Minnesota has already lived the travel week after Dublin, while Cleveland arrives adjusting on the fly with Dillon Gabriel stepping in. The Browns have throttled pace and explosives, allowing 222.5 yards per game with a 29.8% success rate against and just 5 explosive runs surrendered; that tilts this toward […]
October 4, 2025
Last game of the Saturday slate! Are you chasing, or looking to pile on? Either way—rivalry nights in the Valley carry a certain voltage, and this one crackles. Fresno State’s sideline moves with the calm of a contender, while Nevada arrives with clenched jaws and a blueprint built on clock and grit. The numbers hum […]
October 4, 2025
Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium will thrum Saturday night with a clash that has defined stretches of the American’s identity. Memphis enters unbeaten at 5-0, with their ground-heavy balance producing one of the most efficient attacks in the nation. Tulsa drifts in at 2-3, bruised from a 31-14 loss to Tulane and still searching for rhythm. […]
October 4, 2025
What waste hath you all sowed in the one week I was away? I come back and Lamar Jackson, Malik Nabers, and Tyreek Hill—all evaporated. Even Trey Benson, the understudy for James Conner, hit IR and made way for Michael Carter and Emari Demercado. Braelon Allen—gone. All those 49ers were out, too, but that didn’t […]
October 4, 2025
The lights sharpen the Swamp’s noisy glare, and you can feel the charge in the stands before a snap is taken. Florida and Texas tilt under October air, the Gators desperate to prove they belong, the Longhorns bent on flexing their muscle ahead of bigger hunts. DraftKings hung props that hum with tension, and I’ve […]
October 4, 2025
The Horseshoe fills with October night air, scarlet and gray flags rippling as the top-ranked Buckeyes return home for their only Columbus date this month. Minnesota arrives as a 23.5-point underdog, trying to dent a fortress where Ohio State has won 26 straight October games. Both defenses rank among the nation’s stingiest, both built to […]
October 4, 2025
Memorial Stadium crackles in early October, Nebraska’s roar echoing off steel and brick as Michigan State walks into the storm. Both teams sit 3–1, both licking wounds from top-25 opponents, both knowing this is where seasons pivot. The Cornhuskers lay 21.5, a heavy margin built on offensive precision and defensive discipline, while the Spartans arrive […]
October 4, 2025
The Red River Rivalry looms just beyond Saturday’s horizon. Oklahoma stands unbeaten, ranked fifth, yet forced to turn the page at quarterback. Kent State arrives battered, walking into Norman a forty-five-and-a-half-point underdog, one more sacrificial traveler in a brutal non-conference gauntlet. Below is my prediction for CFB Week 6’s game between the Oklahoma Sooners and […]
October 4, 2025
Gerald J. Ford Stadium’s ready for new-ACC tension; it’s been a century since these programs last shared a field. SMU carries a 17.5-point spread, a line heavy with expectation after a bye week’s reset, while Syracuse arrives battered from a 38–3 collapse against Duke and stripped of its starter. This is tempo and firepower against […]
October 4, 2025
The Bluegrass air vibrates with consequence on Saturday, the kind of ACC collision where momentum and memory collide. Virginia arrives ranked for the first time since 2019, fresh from toppling Florida State in double overtime, a 46–38 catharsis that rewrote their season. Louisville sits unbeaten, 4–0 under Jeff Brohm, its own rally against Pitt a […]
October 4, 2025
Ross-Ade stands tall in October, its bleachers tight with the weight of history. Illinois arrives ranked and sharpened by an emotional win over USC, one week removed from that Bloomington humiliation that still lingers like a scar. Purdue comes off a bye with two bruises, Notre Dame and USC both scoring in bunches, the Boilers […]
October 4, 2025